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Why Microsoft is buying GitHub in $7.5 billion deal (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 06/04/2018 - 12:39Pressure is building among some Democratic Lawmakers for another antitrust probe of Google
Rep Keith Ellison (D-MN) is calling on the US government to investigate Google, the latest sign that some Democratic lawmakers are ready to challenge the tech industry after befriending it in the past. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, Rep Ellison urged the watchdog agency to take a closer look at Google and its parent company, Alphabet, given that European regulators recently found that the search giant harmed its rivals and fined it $2.7 billion.
Commentary: The case for even tougher media coverage of President Trump (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 14:46White House press briefings got shorter in May for the fourth straight month (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 14:01President Trump breaks protocol with tweet, sends markets a clear signal on jobs report before numbers are released
President Donald Trump broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly anticipated jobs report data 69 minutes before they were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Treasury yields moved sharply higher within seconds of a tweet from President Trump that said he was “looking forward to seeing the employment numbers at 8:30 this morning.” He had never issued such a tweet before. A federal rule from 1985 prohibits any federal worker from commenting on the jobs report for at least one hour after its release, though the Trump administration has breached that standar
President Trump has made 3,251 false or misleading claims in 497 days (A 6.5 per day avg) (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 07:15President Trump’s election and political ads shortened 2016 Thanksgiving dinners, researchers say (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 07:14Samantha Bee apologizes for calling Ivanka Trump a vulgar word after White House condemnation
Ivanka Trump sparked online outrage recently when she tweeted a photo of herself with her younger son around the same time as reports circulated that the US government had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children in 2017. During a segment May 30 criticizing the administration’s immigration practices, “Full Frontal” host Samantha Bee directed choice words at the first daughter. “You know, Ivanka, that’s a beautiful photo of you and your child,” Bee said. “Let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless c—. He listens to you.”
President Trump again asks for apology from Disney chief after ‘Roseanne’ cancellation
President Donald Trump is continuing to react to the controversy over the cancellation of “Roseanne,” which was taken off the air May 29 after lead actress Roseanne Barr posted offensive and racist tweets. President Trump on May 31 repeated his complaint that Disney chief Bob Iger has not apologized to him for anti-Trump comments made by ABC personalities, something he believes is a double standard since Iger got in touch with Valerie Jarrett, the former top aide to President Barack Obama who was the target of Barr’s racist comments.