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Shortly before midnight on Saturday night, NCAA media coordinator for March Madness David Worlock sent out a telling tweet. He said that 12 members of the men’s basketball selection committee were still hard at work assessing which teams belong in the field of 68. Been doing this since 2006. It’s never been this hard for the committee, not only because of how close so many of these teams are, but because of the abundance of bid thieves which have knocked teams out. Going on midnight but the… Source link

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., who were each stripped of committee assignments by House Democrats for their incendiary rhetoric, have been given seats on multiple congressional panels in the now Republican-controlled chamber. Greene — an election denier who has often complained about the treatment of those arrested and charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol — was named to the Homeland Security Committee, multiple news outlets… Source link

OpenAP, an advanced advertising company, worked with national programmers such as Fox, NBCUniversal, Paramount, TelevisaUnivision, and Warner Bros. Discovery and the VAB to create a committee that will certify multiple cross-platform currencies. The deal, announced Monday, aims to create the certification by the 2024 upfront. The Joint Industry Committee (JIC), … Source link

SAN FRANCISCO —  The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of November’s midterm elections – an allegation Google denies. The lawsuit, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of California Friday evening, accuses Gmail of “discriminating” against the RNC by unfairly sending the group’s emails to users’ spam folders, impacting both fundraising and… Source link

Oct 22 (Reuters) – The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit against Google on Friday, for allegedly sending its emails to users’ spam folders. The U.S. political committee accuses the tech giant of “discriminating” against it by “throttling its email messages because of the RNC’s political affiliation and views,” according to a lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of California. “Google has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors’ and supporters’… Source link

The FDA’s vaccine advisory committee voted in favor of Novavax’s (NVAX) COVID-19 vaccine for use in adults, paving the way for the company to get its first product authorized in the U.S. But the day-long meeting raised a number of concerns presented by Novavax’s late entry to the vaccine field. Before any data was even presented, questions were raised by committee members about the need to authorize yet another COVID-19 vaccine, as demand has waned in the U.S., and about the manufacturing… Source link

The NCAA men’s tournament selection committee unveiled its bracket Sunday evening. Below is a look at what it got right and what it got wrong: What the committee got right: The No. 1 seeds The Selection Sunday drama wasn’t at the top seed line this year. The committee astutely recognized that Gonzaga, Arizona, Kansas and Baylor separated themselves from the rest of college basketball’s top teams. [Join the Yahoo Fantasy Tourney Pick’Em $25K Best Bracket Contest] Gonzaga (26-3) sewed up the… Source link

Sometime before 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, the NCAA tournament selection committee will email a completed bracket to CBS to unveil on its the selection show. Here’s a look at the biggest decisions that the committee will have to make between now and then: 1. Who will join Gonzaga and Arizona as No. 1 seeds? The chaos in the SEC tournament this week worked in the Big 12’s favor. With neither Auburn nor Kentucky even making the SEC title game, Kansas and Baylor both now appear almost certain to… Source link

The House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot has subpoenaed the parent companies of Google and Facebook as well as social media giants Twitter Inc. and Reddit, the panel’s chairman said Thursday. “Two key questions for the Select Committee are how the spread of misinformation and violent extremism contributed to the violent attack on our democracy, and what steps — if any — social media companies took to prevent their platforms from… Source link

Volkan Furuncu | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The House select committee investigating the deadly Capitol riot has subpoenaed social media giants Twitter, Reddit and the parent companies of Facebook and Google, the panel’s chairman said Thursday. The bipartisan committee had asked for a trove of records last summer from those and other social companies, but said it received “inadequate responses” from some of the largest platforms. The committee again demanded that Google parent company… Source link