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Trump the dancer? Watch his ‘hit’ moves to ‘YMCA’

Video: Trump the dancer? Watch his ‘hit’ moves to ‘YMCA’

12:29 am October 22, 2020

Tucson, Arizona: He adjusts his coat. He gazes out at the crowd. And then he goes for it. President Donald Trump, a man who is famously particular about his appearance, is fully embracing doing a dad dance to the Village People’s “YMCA” as the finale to his rallies in the campaign’s closing stretch. He starts […]

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Gmail, other Google services face outage

Who is harmed by Google’s monopoly?

11:46 pm October 21, 2020

New York: Google has long defended itself against charges of monopoly by stressing that its products are free and that no one has to use them. And it’s avoided tough government scrutiny for years based in part on the idea that people searching the internet are not Google’s true customers. We’re its product. Advertisers are […]

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Trump slams media for 'blocking' alleged graft cases against Biden

Trump ups pressure on Barr to probe Bidens as election nears

4:58 pm October 21, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Attorney General William Barr to immediately launch an investigation into unverified claims about Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, effectively demanding that the Justice Department muddy his political opponent and abandon its historic resistance to getting involved in elections. With just two weeks to go before […]

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Gmail, other Google services face outage

Australian watchdog considers its own Google antitrust case

12:52 pm October 21, 2020

Canberra: Australia’s competition watchdog will consider its own antitrust case against Google, the commission chairman said Wednesday after the U.S. Justice Department sued the company for abusing its dominance in online search and advertising. Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims described the U.S. case filed Tuesday as one of the world’s biggest antitrust cases […]

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Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden prepping for debate

12:47 pm October 21, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign. Democrat Joe Biden has been taking the opposite approach, holing up for debate prep in […]

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