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Business Insider – by Isobel Asher Hamilton and Aaron Holmes

The US Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Tuesday morning, kicking off the largest legal challenge the tech giant has ever faced.

The case argues that Google uses a network of illegal, exclusionary business deals that disadvantage smaller competitors, building an unfair advantage in search and online advertising. Eleven states joined the Justice Department in its lawsuit. Continue reading “The DOJ just slammed Google with a landmark antitrust case, kicking off the largest legal challenge in the tech giant’s history”

Forbes – by Robert Hart

A report from the New York Times reveals a decade of Donald Trump’s unsuccessful business activities in China, including an undisclosed bank account that paid nearly $200,000 in taxes, undermining his own exaggerated claims of Hunter Biden’s business dealings there, as well as his rhetoric that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, is soft on the country.    Continue reading “Report: Trump Paid Nearly $200,000 In Taxes To China”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Hunter Biden’s former business associate Bevan Cooney, who flipped on the Bidens and exposed an influence-peddling operation, has been moved out of his prison cell, according to Breitbart News.

Days after Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer and journalist Matthew Tyrmand published emails provided by Cooney, federal agents moved him from his cell in an Oregon prison around 11:00 a.m. local time on Tuesday to protect him, according to Tyrmand. Continue reading “Hunter Biden Witness Moved From Prison Cell After Exposing Influence-Peddling Operation”

Fox News

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was in custody Tuesday after one Houston police officer was shot and killed and another wounded at a southwest Houston apartment complex, authorities said.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed the arrest and officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) later told Fox News that the suspect was in the U.S. illegally. Continue reading “Houston police officer dead, 1 hurt; illegal immigrant suspect in custody”

The Hill – by Rebecca Beitsch

A federal judge unraveled the work of former Bureau of Land Management (BLM) acting Director William Perry Pendley, throwing out land management plans in Montana in a case that could jeopardize the agency’s work elsewhere across the country.

The late Friday ruling is a win for the state of Montana, with Montana-based District Judge Brian Morris criticizing the Department of the Interior for “novel and last-ditch legal arguments.”  Continue reading “Judge tosses land management plans after ousting Pendley from role”

Yahoo News

As many as 100 ballots were damaged on Sunday night when a ballot box in Baldwin Park, California, went up in flames.

Firefighters were called to the scene at around 8 p.m. The charred ballots inside the metal box were transferred to the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder’s office, and they are trying to determine if any can be saved. Los Angeles County Fire Department spokeswoman Leslie Lua told the Los Angeles Times arson is being investigated as a possible cause, and if that’s the case, it will be the first time a ballot box in the county has ever intentionally been set on fire. Continue reading “Officials investigating suspicious ballot box fire in Los Angeles County”

Yahoo News

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A magnitude 7.5 earthquake prompted a tsunami warning Monday for a nearly thousand-mile stretch of Alaska’s southern coast, with waves over 2 feet at the nearest community as the threat subsided.

The quake was centered near Sand Point, a city of about 900 people off the Alaska Peninsula where wave levels late Monday topped 2 feet (0.61 meters), according to the National Tsunami Warning Center. The warning was downgraded to an advisory just over two hours after the quake hit, and was lifted Monday night. Continue reading “Large earthquake off Alaska prompts tsunami fears, fleeing”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

Sony has announced that it will allow Playstation users to record in-game voice chats so players can snitch on each other for mean words said during private conversations.

Yes, really.

The game console’s latest update forces users to waive their privacy rights, allowing others to report them and get their accounts banned for speech violations. Continue reading “Playstation Says it Will Enable Voice Chats to be Recorded So Players Can be Snitched on for Mean Words”

CNN

Authorities say the officer was looking for a suspect reportedly carrying a burning piece of wood in the South Lake Union neighborhood.  Continue reading “Man arrested after a Seattle police car is set on fire with an officer inside”

Chron

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country’s army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday.

Two people with knowledge of the arrest said Cienfuegos was taken into custody on a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warrant. One of the people said the warrant was for drug trafficking and money laundering charges. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly. Continue reading “Ex-Mexico army chief arrested in LA on drugs, money charges”

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Continue reading “12 MS-13 gang members arrested, linked to several murders in Prince William County”

MSN

Three police officers were taken to hospital with injuries after protesters stormed the Rochester Police Department’s headquarters, police said.

Demonstrators arrived at the city Public Safety Building in downtown Rochester, New York on Tuesday evening to protest the arrest of 50-year-old Nicholas Wilt, the Rochester Police Department said in a news release early Wednesday. Continue reading “Three Rochester NYPD Officers Hospitalized After Protesters Storm Police HQ”

MSN

DETROIT (AP) — A week after Michigan’s Supreme Court ruled Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lacked the authority to act unilaterally to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the state health department issued its own emergency order keeping much of the restrictions she imposed in place.

The order Friday from Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon comes under the state’s Public Health Code. Continue reading “After Court Ruling, New Emergency Orders Issued to Stem Virus in Michigan”

MSN

The following timeline largely reflects the account in criminal court documents by state and federal law enforcement filed against 13 men accused of plotting to kidnap public officials in Michigan, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The men have been arrested and brought into custody.

As law enforcement routinely notes, a criminal charge is an allegation and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. Continue reading “‘Snatch and grab’: The winding path to plot against a governor”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Since Israel’s peace deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a sale of arms, including F35s, to the UAE seemed inevitable. Israel first bristled at this idea, but has recently seemed to tolerate the sale so long as they get free equipment from the US in return.

Nothing’s ever that easy, however, and Senators from both parties, Jim Risch (R-ID) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), are now resisting the idea, saying they believe the sale doesn’t meet legal requirements to assure Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge. Continue reading “Trump’s Planned Sale of F35s to UAE Hits Snag in the Senate”

ABC News

One man was killed and a male suspect is in custody following a shooting at a protest in Denver Saturday, authorities said.

The shooting occurred in the courtyard near the Denver Art Museum, officials said. Police initially said one victim was transported to the hospital and their condition was unknown. Denver police later said they were investigating the incident as a homicide. Continue reading “1 person dead, suspect in custody following shooting at Denver protests: Police”

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Crop loss estimates from a rare wind storm that slammed Iowa in August have increased by more than 50%.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that the number of crop acres that Iowa farmers are unable to harvest has grown to 850,000 from estimates last month that 550,000 acres were lost because of the storm, known as a derecho. Continue reading “Report: Iowa’s derecho crop losses increase by more than 50%”

Yahoo News

President Trump called for another round of coronavirus stimulus checks to Americans after calling off stimulus negotiations with Democrats on Tuesday afternoon.

“If I am sent a Stand Alone Bill for Stimulus Checks ($1,200), they will go out to our great people IMMEDIATELY,” the president said in a tweet on Tuesday evening. “I am ready to sign right now.” Continue reading “Coronavirus stimulus checks: President Trump calls for more direct payments after derailing negotiations, Pelosi responds”