“This hearing is timely and important,” said Maurice Stucke, a former prosecutor with the Justice Department’s antitrust division who now teaches law at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. “It is carried out not in isolation, but amid increased scrutiny from the world’s dominant technology platforms.” Stucke believes the audience …
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert: an Australian academic moved to the famous Iranian prison
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic at the University of Melbourne, has been detained in Iran since 2018. She was convicted of espionage last year and sentenced to 10 years in prison. She has now been transferred from Tehran’s Evin Prison to Qarchak Women’s Prison, east of the capital, according to a …
Read More »How large would a stimulus check be under the HEALS Act?
Republican lawmakers want to send another round of stimulus checks to American households to help them weather the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The checks would be similar in quantity to the first round, but not as generous as the package proposed by Democrats in May. Details about a …
Read More »Man, this new image of Saturn
Photo Credit: Office of Public Extension of the Space Telescope Science Institute Of Popular Mechanics NASA has released a new image of Saturn taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope captured the image of Saturn for the Legacy Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) project on July 4. Hubble has been operating …
Read More »Vikings RB Dalvin Cook reports to camp; DT Michael Pierce chooses not to participate
EAGAN, Minn. – Dalvin Cook’s reservation has effectively ended. The Minnesota Vikings running back showed up at the TCO Performance Center on Tuesday, the team’s mandatory notification date for veteran players, to take his initial COVID-19 test, a league source told ESPN. Cook is expected to participate in the virtual …
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