Monthly Archives: July 2020

7 conclusions of the absurd Big Tech Congress hearing

Wednesday’s hearing was supposed to focus on anti-competitive practices; instead, a steady stream of questions about censorship, political favoritism, and spam e-mails was highlighted. Wednesday’s hearing on possible antitrust practices among the top tech companies, with testimony from Apple CEOs, Amazon, Facebook and Google’s parent company Alphabet, vacillated between insightful …

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Trump says he didn’t discuss Russian rewards with Putin

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump confirmed in an interview published on Wednesday that he did not discuss intelligence about possible Russian rewards on US troops in Afghanistan with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they spoke on the phone last week. “It was a phone call to discuss other things and, …

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Teachers’ union group rejects New York’s school reopening plan

An influential group of city teachers rejected Mayor de Blasio’s reopening of school buildings in September, and does not rule out a strike as a last resort. The caucus of the United Federation of Teachers’ Archive and Rank Educators Movement has already collected nearly 4,000 signatures demanding that schools remain …

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