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Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the 2016 campaign of President Donald Trump, on Monday filed a new lawsuit against Oath, Inc., the corporate parent of Yahoo! News and the Huffington Post.  The suit, filed in Delaware, names the same defendants and makes similar claims to a suit Page filed in federal court in New York in 2017.  The New York case was dismissed because the claims failed as a matter of law, a federal judge wrote. The new lawsuit alleges defamation and… Source link

Florida surpassed 400,000 total coronavirus cases on Friday, one day after Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state had “clearly stabilized with the cases.” As of 9:25 a.m. ET Friday, Florida had recorded some 402,312 cases of COVID-19, according to data compiled by the state Department of Health. The state logged an average of 10,700 cases per day over the last seven days. In all, some 5,653 people have died of COVID-19 in Florida, according to the state health department. The somber milestone follows… Source link

A YouTube video promotion for the Alaska State Troopers went viral, after it became known that the video had been banned from the YouTube ad program because it was “too political.” To be clear, Google/YouTube allow the video to be aired, but simply will not allow it to be promoted. Google, which owns YouTube, notified the Department of Public Safety late last week that it was all a misunderstanding. There had been a lot of public blowback over… Source link

It’s a challenging time in our nation right now, but the hard work of our Alaska State Troopers is appreciated by our citizens and by our Governor. Find out more about how you can join the team. Posted by Alaska State Troopers (Official) on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 JUNEAU — The Alaska Department of Public Safety accused Google of censorship for canceling a recruitment advertisement for state troopers considered to be political, but the tech giant said it was a miscommunication. The… Source link