The government is circling the wagons around Big Tech as the scrutiny of its immense power intensifies. Two groups of state attorneys general are joining the fray with separate investigations into whether Google and Facebook have been unfairly leveraging their array of popular — and free — services to dominate the lucrative online advertising market. […]
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He could always tell his grandkids that he planned it that way. With his team already trailing 15-0 to host Minnesota Duluth on Thursday, Minot State’s Cory Carignan was about to make it worse. He dropped the kickoff and scrambled into the end zone to retrieve the ball. Then he appeared to be in the
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Over the past year, a small troupe of drag performers with Down syndrome has taken the stage in London, Stockholm, Oslo and Montreal, adopting flashy alter egos and basking in the crowd’s applause. They call themselves Drag Syndrome. The London-based troupe’s next stop was their United States debut: an art exhibition in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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U.S. health officials on Friday again urged people to stop vaping until they figure out why some are coming down with serious breathing illnesses. Officials said they had identified 450 possible cases, including at least three deaths, in 33 states. The count includes a newly reported death in Indiana. No single vaping device, liquid or
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Director Woody Allen, who has long been accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow when she was 7 years old, continued trying to cast himself as a Me Too champion, even though he dismissed the movement as it grew in 2017. “I’ve done everything the Me Too movement would love to achieve,” Allen told France
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It’s no coincidence that “nauseous” derives from the Greek word, Vαῦς, for “ship.” If you’ve ever been on a cruise, especially in the middle of the ocean during winter, then you know exactly what we are talking about ― and it’s not pretty. Cruising is supposed to be fun, easy. It’s supposed to be a
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There is a force uniting the nation’s fierce partisan divide: big technology companies. Democrats and Republicans at the federal and state levels are uniting to scrutinize the power of the tech giants, and potentially to rein them in. Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, announced on Friday that the attorneys general in eight states —
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Oakland Raiders coach Jon Gruden said star receiver Antonio Brown is back with the team and is expected to play the season opener after a run-in with general manager Mike Mayock had put him in jeopardy of being suspended. Gruden spoke briefly at the beginning of practice Friday and said the plan is for Brown
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NEWARK — In the month before officially becoming a presidential candidate, Senator Cory Booker spent his nights rewatching all 172 episodes of “Star Trek: Voyager.” This is not a coincidence. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” was an idealist. His vision for the future, as conveyed in the franchise’s many iterations, was a progressive
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But service industries are holding up and consumer spending, which makes up almost 70 percent of the American economy, has come in strong. The August jobs report showed that employers added 130,000 workers last month, and average hourly earnings climbed 3.2 percent over the year. While employment growth has slowed, it has remained strong enough
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