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WATCH LIVE: Bezos, Zuckerberg, Cook and Pinchai to testify on tech industry dominance

The House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust is capping its yearlong investigation of Big Tech’s market dominance with Wednesday’s teleconferenced hearing spotlighting the four CEOs.

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Facebook, Instagram suspends UK rapper Wiley as he continues anti-Semitic rants

Rapper threatened to come to a largely Jewish populated neighborhood of London and singled out Jewish public figures who have been critical of him

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Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020 – Whitehouse.gov

Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020  Whitehouse.gov

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Barr Clashes With House Democrats, Defending Responses to Protests and Russia Inquiry

The deployment of federal agents to confront protesters and rioters and attacks on the Russia investigation highlighted a contentious hearing.

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Bemusement and anger in Mallorca over British government’s COVID restrictions

There is a very good reason why the people of the Balearic Islands feel particularly hurt by Britain’s new rules on quarantine. As I flew into Mallorca, it was there beneath me.

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Barr Clashes With House Democrats in Testimony, Defending Protests Response – The New York Times

Barr Clashes With House Democrats in Testimony, Defending Protests Response  The New York Times Barr dings Nadler after sparring over whether to take a hearing break: ‘You’re a real class act’  Fox News Attorney General William Barr clashes with lawmakers | WNT  ABC

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TransferWise confirms new $5B valuation following $319M secondary share sale

TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, is disclosing that it is now valued at $5 billion by private investors, confirming an earlier Sky News report. The new valuation represents an increase of 43% since May 2019, and has been

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News Wrap: Mayor of Portland, Oregon, asks for ‘cease-fire’

In our news wrap Tuesday, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, is calling for a “cease-fire” and the removal of federal law enforcement from his city. Agents again used tear gas overnight after some protesters attacked a security fence at the

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Space Camp in danger of closing permanently due to pandemic

Space Camp, an educational program attended by nearly 1 million people, including a dozen who went on to become astronauts or cosmonauts, said Tuesday it’s in danger of closing without a cash infusion because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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In combative hearing, Barr insists he is exercising ‘independent judgment’

Attorney General William Barr faced questions from the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday in a combative hearing delayed for four months because of the coronavirus pandemic. In Barr’s first testimony in over a year, Democrats questioned him about protests in Portland,

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