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CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia will not alter legislation that would make Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google pay news outlets for content, a senior lawmaker said on Monday, as Canberra neared a final vote on whether to pass the bill into law. FILE PHOTO: A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in front of displayed Australia’s flag in this illustration photo taken February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Australia and the tech giants have been in a stand-off over the legislation widely… Source link

A menacing sign has emerged outside a gun shop in the US ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration this week. While Donald Trump spends his last few days in the top job, people have rushed to gun stores across the country with the demand for firearms and ammunition soaring as thousands of National Guard troops descend on Washington. Gun safety instructor Stephen Gutowski posted a photo of a sign at his local gun shop in Virginia on Twitter, revealing strict purchasing limits for… Source link

TipRanks 3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding Over 7%; Raymond James Says ‘Buy’ Wall Street’s investment firms are burning the midnight oil as we approach the end of 2020, publishing their year-end notes and their New Year prognostications, both for investors’ edification. There is the obvious point: we’re in a moment of rising markets, and investor sentiment is riding high now that the election is settled and COVID vaccines have emergency approval and are getting into the distribution… Source link

A poker pro on the verge of playing for game’s must coveted prize instead endured heartbreak after testing positive for COVID-19. Upeshka De Silva qualified for the final table of the American leg of the World Series of Poker Main Event as one of the final nine players out of a field of 705 competing in the $10,000 buy-in event. But the no-limit Texas Hold ’em final table started Monday without him. De Silva confirms that he’s out Following a report late Sunday from poker player and… Source link

TipRanks J.P. Morgan: 2 Stocks to Buy (And 1 to Avoid) Marko Kolanovic, the well-known quant strategist with JPMorgan, sees a positive feedback loop forming that will drive the markets higher next year. Kolanovic believes that a decline in volatility and favorable monetary policies will combine to make stocks the go-to investment for 2021, fueling further market gains. Officially, JPM is forecasting a 25% gain in the S&P 500 over the next 12 months.With investors gravitating toward stocks,… Source link

After three years of support, the Pixel 2 has received its last update from Google: a delayed November security patch going out to the devices this month, as noted by Android Central. Google’s device support schedule indicates that the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL aren’t guaranteed security updates after October 2020. Google announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL in October 2017. The two devices were identical in every way except size, and they earned plenty of praise for their somewhat… Source link

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) WASHINGTON — Over the past week, President Donald Trump posted or reposted about 145 messages on Twitter lashing out at the results of an election he lost. He mentioned the coronavirus pandemic now reaching its darkest hours four times — and even then just to assert that he was right about the outbreak and the experts were wrong. Moody and by accounts of his… Source link

Judge Nicholas Garaufis on Friday directed the Trump administration to fully restore the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, which was designed during the Obama administration to protect younger undocumented immigrants from deportation. Per The New York Times, the decision may be the “final blow” to President Trump’s years-long quest to eliminate the program. The order requires the Department of Homeland Security to post a public notice by Monday that it will accept new DACA… Source link

Instead of participating in a final debate with his Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, Georgia Sen. David Perdue (R) will spend his Sunday at a rally with President Trump. Perdue announced his change of plans on Thursday. In response, Ossoff tweeted, “At last night’s debate, millions saw that Perdue had no answers when I called him out on his record of blatant corruption, widespread disease, and economic devastation. Shame on you, senator.” Their Wednesday night debate in Savannah was heated,… Source link

WASHINGTON — The most-searched issue on Google in all but six states during the final presidential debate was wages, underscoring the importance of the issue to voters in this election. And the searches spiked just as NBC News moderator Kristen Welker asked about the minimum wage, a pocketbook issue affecting millions of Americans on which there is a sharp contrast between the candidates: Joe Biden wants to raise the federal minimum wage while President Donald Trump wants to defer to… Source link