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Lawmakers See Path to Rein In Tech, but It Isn’t Smooth
If what faces Big Tech is anything like what happened to Big Tobacco, the road ahead is likely to be a yearslong battle over proposed rules and regulations. Source
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Justice Dept. Watchdog to Investigate Seizure of Democrats’ Data
The Times also reported that prosecutors had struggled to develop information tying members of the Intelligence Committee or their aides to the leaks, but Mr. Barr, after he was sworn in in 2019, objected to […]
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Senate Poised to Pass $195 Billion Bill to Bolster Competitiveness With China
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday was on the brink of passing expansive legislation to ramp up research and development into scientific innovation, advancing what would be the government’s first significant foray into industrial policy […]
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Amazon Walks a Political Tightrope in Its Union Fight
The company has always opposed efforts by its workers to organize, but its regulatory fate rests largely with Democrats in Washington. Source
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Democratic Congress Prepares to Take On Big Tech
The ideas mirror many recommendations introduced last October in a House judiciary report led by Representative David Cicilline, a Rhode Island Democrat. But her bill won’t include provisions to unwind past mergers and other structural […]
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Fact Check: No, Biden Did Not Have a Maskless Birthday Party
A tweet wishing President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. happy birthday last week generated false rumors that Mr. Biden marked his 78th birthday on Friday with a maskless party. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta tweeted […]