Month: December 2020
Announcing TechCrunch’s 2021 Event Calendar
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Read MoreBarr: DOJ Has No Evidence Of Fraud Affecting 2020 Election Outcome – NPR
Barr: DOJ Has No Evidence Of Fraud Affecting 2020 Election Outcome NPR William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread fraud in presidential election CNN Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud The Associated Press Local 4 News at 4 –Dec.
Read MoreSalesforce acquires Slack for over $27 billion, marking cloud software vendor’s largest deal ever – CNBC
Salesforce acquires Slack for over $27 billion, marking cloud software vendor’s largest deal ever CNBC Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion The New York Times Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal TechCrunch Salesforce to acquire Slack in $27.7B deal Yahoo Finance Options
Read MoreChinese spacecraft lands on moon to bring lunar rocks back to Earth
Chang’e 5 will be first probe to obtain fresh samples of moon rock since a Soviet mission in the 1970s
Read MoreSupreme Court hears Nestle, Cargill alleged human rights abuses case
If the court were to accept Nestle and Cargill’s arguments, that could further limit the ability of victims of human rights abuses abroad to use U.S. courts to sue.
Read MoreArmed Gang Attacks Criciúma, Brazil, Holds People Hostage While Robbing Bank
Heavily armed bank robbers laid siege on Tuesday to an entire city in southern Brazil, overpowering local police. The assault caused shock in a country dominated by organized crime.
Read MoreU.N. Investigators Help Yazidis In Iraq Find Bodies Of Loved Ones Killed By ISIS
In Iraq, six years after the ISIS genocide against the Yazidi minority, survivors are still trying to find bodies of their loved ones. U.N. investigators are exhuming mass graves.
Read MoreHours In Bread Lines: People Across Syria Struggle To Get Food
The U.N.’s World Food Program reports that half of Syria’s population has trouble getting food. Syrians say hours-long bread lines sometimes end up yielding nothing.
Read MoreAttorney General Barr Says DOJ Hasn’t Uncovered Evidence of Voter Fraud That’d Change Outcome of 2020 Election
(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. His comments come despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the
Read MoreTrump raises $170 million as he looks to future
President Donald Trump has raised roughly $170 million since his Election Day defeat, a sum garnered through a nonstop stream of solicitations that have falsely claimed the election was stolen while requesting contributions for an “election defense fund.”
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