Tag Archives: Politics

Bird, Mixpanel, Grindr in the list

A number of startup-backed tech startups were among companies that received loans under a program aimed at mitigating economic damage from Covid-19, according to data released Monday by the Trump Administration. The data follows Democrats’ demands for greater transparency around the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, funds established as part …

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TSA screened 2.7 million people over the holiday weekend

The Transportation Security Administration said it examined more than 700,000 people on each of the three days during the four-day travel period of the holiday weekend, the first time above 700,000 since mid-March. The nearly 2.7 million people screened Thursday through Sunday were about 28% of the 9.4 million people …

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Robocalls: Supreme Court reinforces ban on calls to mobile phones

In a decision that divided the court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh writes that an exception to the ban created by Congress is unconstitutional under the First Amendment, and that the general ban must remain in effect. “Americans passionately disagree about many things. But they are largely united in their disdain for …

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