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Former President Donald Trump swept nearly all of this year’s Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses, routing his last major rival for the Republican presidential nomination, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Haley announced Wednesday morning that she is suspending her campaign, clearing the way for Trump’s rematch with President Biden, the Democrat who beat him in 2020. Biden also won lopsided victories on Tuesday across 15 states. Trump, who gained several hundred delegates with major… Source link

Rep. Kevin McCarthy is congratulated after winning the 15th vote in the House chamber as the House enters the fifth day trying to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, early Jan. 7, 2023. (Alex Brandon/AP) Exhausted by the last few days of drama on Capitol Hill, which saw Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California trying and failing to win the House speaker’s gavel 14 times before finally eking out a slim majority late Friday night? You ain’t seen nothing… Source link

The German Cartel Office has determined that News Showcases don’t stifle competition Google is one of the big tech companies that’s synonymous with the internet for many people, and as such, regulators around the world are watching it carefully, making sure it’s not abusing its position of power. The European Union is particularly strict, and for good reason—regulators in the region have often found the company using its position to harm competitors. That… Source link

A 3D printed Facebook’s new rebrand logo Meta is seen in front of displayed Google logo in this illustration taken on November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register SEOUL, Sept 14 (Reuters) – South Korea levied millions of dollars in fines on Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Meta Platforms (META.O)for privacy law violations, authorities said on Wednesday, as Meta considers fighting the decision in court. In a statement, the… Source link

Bill Gates just won legal approval to buy 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland worth $13.5M — and people are ‘livid’ about it all across the state Bill Gates made his fortune in tech, but he’s now betting big on something completely different: farmland. Last week, Gates secured the legal approval for purchasing 2,100 acres of farmland from northeastern North Dakota potato growers Campbell Farms. Of course, this isn’t first time Gates has invested in the asset class. Having amassed… Source link

Rose Namajunas lost her women’s strawweight title in the UFC 274 co-main event rematch against former champion Carla Esparza on Saturday. The fight was largely uneventful. Spectators inside the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Ariz. could be heard booing during the pay-per-view broadcast. The bout was difficult to score because so little occurred, especially in the first three rounds. The judges scored the fight for Esparza by split decision giving her two title-fight wins over Namajunas. It was… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) warehouse workers at a Staten Island, N.Y., facility on Friday established the first U.S. union in the company’s 28-year history, delivering a blow to the e-commerce giant and intensifying a wave of labor organizing nationwide. The astonishing victory of a worker-led, crowdfunded union over the nation’s second-largest employer became an immediate symbol for resurgent worker strength. But for now, a symbol is just about all that it is. In the coming days, the Amazon Labor Union… Source link

Championship Sunday is here in women’s college basketball and programs around the country are punching automatic bids to March Madness. Follow here throughout the day for results and NCAA tournament implications. SEC: South Carolina upset in final seconds of title game Dre’una Edwards drilled a game-winning 3-pointer with seconds on the clock and Kentucky stormed to its first SEC tournament championship in 40 years on Sunday by defeating South Carolina, 64-62, in Nashville, Tennessee. The… Source link

Sonos has long accused other tech giants of stealing its patents and technology, but in 2020, it actually sued Google for patent infringement. Sonos said that it had disclosed details about how its technology worked during negotiations to integrate Google’s voice assistant and that Google had copied the tech and then released cheaper products it subsidized with revenue from search advertising. Sonos recently won that lawsuit at the US International Trade Commission, which ruled that… Source link

Ned McNally, a temp worker at Google’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, received notice in August that he would get a $200 weekly bonus until the end of the year for working a full week. It was a nod to the labor shortages ravaging businesses during the pandemic. But by October, Mr. McNally and about 250 other data center temps stopped receiving the payments even though they had met the weekly attendance threshold. According to an email sent to employees of Modis, a unit of Adecco,… Source link