Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai of Google and Tim Cook of Apple — are answering for their companies’ practices before Congress as a House panel caps its yearlong investigation of market dominance in the industry.The powerful executives are defending their companies as buttressing competition and offering essential services to consumers.

The four CEOs are testifying remotely for a hearing Wednesday by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust. Zuckerberg, Bezos among tech leaders to testify before U.S.

Congress on antitrust President Donald Trump, meanwhile, continued to denounce the big tech companies, which he has accused, without evidence, of bias against him and conservatives in general.

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US officials dispute Trump's claim that Beirut blast was attack

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials said Wednesday there is no indication the massive explosion in Lebanon that killed at least 100 people was an attack, contradicting President Donald Trump who said American generals told him it was likely caused by a bomb.The officials, speaking only on condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments, said that while it was not out of the realm of possibility that the blast was deliberately caused, the belief so far was that it was most likely an accident.From the outset, U.S.

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Jimmy Fallon Skewers Trump's Coronavirus Death Toll Indifference in Axios Interview

Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday lit into Donald Trump over the president's recent shockingly dismal interview with Axios that aired Monday night on HBO. One of the larger takeaways from the interview was Trump's apparent lack of care that more than 150,000 people have died thus far from the pandemic in the U.S.; with the president tellinginterviewer Jonathan Swan, "It is what it is." The Tonight Show host — taking a sharp turn from his days of wearing kid gloves with Trump, even infamously playing with the then-presidential candidate's hair on the show — expressed his disgust over Trump's indifference.

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Trump sues Nevada over mail-in voting, one day after encouraging Floridians to vote by mail

President Donald Trump (file photo) WASHINGTON - In an abrupt reversal, President Donald Trump is encouraging voters in the critical swing state of Florida to vote by mail after months of criticizing the practice — and while his campaign and the GOP challenge Nevada over its new vote-by-mail law.Democratic requests to vote by mail have surged in Florida, a state that Trump almost certainly must win to secure a second term.

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Trump considering giving convention speech from White House

President Donald Trump speaks during the press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 30, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he's considering delivering his Republican convention acceptance speech from the White House in a move that would mark an unprecedented use of public property for partisan political purposes.Trump also called for the first formal presidential debate, scheduled for Sept.

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Trump offers ‘deepest sympathies’ following explosion in Beirut

U.S. President Donald Trump offered his administration’s “deepest sympathies” to the people of Beirut after an explosion in the Lebanese capital Tuesday resulted in the deaths of at least 70 peoples.

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Chasm grows between Trump and government coronavirus experts

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 04: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on August 4, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Widow Blasts President Trump & Texas Governor Over Husband's Death From Coronavirus in Obituary: 'Shame On All Of You'

David Nagy‘s obituary is going viral after his widow, Stacey Nagy, called out President Donald Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott for their failure to citizens with the COVID-19 coronavirus.

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Trump's demand for US cut of a TikTok deal is unprecedented

NEW YORK - President Donald Trump's demand that the U.S. government get a cut from a potential Microsoft purchase of TikTok is the latest unprecedented scenario in an unprecedented situation.Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok, a forced sale after Trump threatened to ban the Chinese-owned video app, which claims 100 million U.S.

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Donald Trump's jaw-dropping coronavirus interview leaves shocked viewers baffled

Donald Trump 's car crash interview has raised eyebrows all over the world.

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Reporter Makes Donald Trump Look Like A Fool On Coronavirus Response & Twitter EXPLODES With Reactions! (Video)

Donald Trump is at it again, making us all scratch our heads and wonder how the f**k we ended up in the worst possible timeline.

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Trump withholds praise for John Lewis, notes he 'didn't come to my inauguration'

President Donald Trump makes remarks as he meets with U.S. tech workers and signs an executive order on hiring Americans in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 3, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

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Trump says U.S. should get ‘very large percentage’ of TikTok sale price

President Donald Trump repeated a claim he made earlier in the day on Monday that the U.S.

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Trump Says We Can't Look at COVID-19 Deaths in Proportion to Population - Watch the Bizarre Interview

A new interview with President Donald Trump was just released and he is making some more claims about coronavirus that have people enraged on Twitter.

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Trump threatens Tik Tok ban unless U.S. gets ‘substantial portion’ of operations sales price

Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. government should get a “substantial portion” of the sales price of the U.S.

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‘Bald-faced lies’: Joe Biden assails Trump over vote by mail comments

Joe Biden said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump was telling “bald-faced lies” about voting by mail to distract from his own failures, after Trump last week suggested it could be cause to delay the election.Biden’s remarks were his strongest on the issue since Trump, who trails the presumptive Democratic nominee in opinion polls, tweeted on Thursday that he would not trust the results of an election that included widespread mail voting — a measure many observers see as critical during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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Anthony Fauci warns against opening schools in coronavirus hot spots in US

Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, spoke via video conference Monday to physicians and medical students at New Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Centre.He said while the nation's “default principle" should be that children return to school, “to say that every child has to go back to school is not really realising the fact that we have such a diversity of viral activity." He said there may be some areas where the level of virus is so high that it would not be prudent to bring children back to school.Determined to reopen America's schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump recently threatened to hold back federal money if school districts don't bring their students back in the

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Nevada to mail all voters ballots; Trump promises lawsuit

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Prosecutor seeking Trump's taxes cites reports of 'protracted criminal conduct' at Trump Organization

NEW YORK - A Manhattan prosecutor trying to get President Donald Trump’s tax returns told a judge Monday that he was justified in demanding them, citing public reports of “extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization.”Trump’s lawyers last month said the grand jury subpoena for the tax returns was issued in bad faith and amounted to harassment of the president.Manhattan District Attorney District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.

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Trump to give TikTok owner 45 days to sell app: sources

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Trump says he’s going to ban TikTok. Will Canada do the same?

Donald Trump announced Friday that he was going to ban social media app TikTok from being used within the country.Such a move — which the president said could come through the usage of executive powers — would place the U.S. among several countries that have succeeded in ousting the app over cybersecurity or privacy concerns.According to Queen’s University professor David Skillicorn, TikTok’s data collection practices are used by most, if not all, major social media companies.

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Republicans, Democrats report progress on coronavirus aid negotiations

coronavirus relief bill Saturday, as political pressure mounts to restore an expired $600-per-week supplemental unemployment benefit and send funding to help schools reopen.“This was the longest meeting we’ve had and it was more productive than the other meetings,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who was part of the rare weekend session.

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Trump says he plans to ban TikTok in U.S., opposes Chinese sale

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Trump says federal officers to remain in Portland on standby

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Coronavirus: Trump says rate of positive COVID-19 cases in Florida is declining

According to U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, the rate of positive COVID-19 cases in Florida, one of the hotspot states for the novel coronavirus, is declining.

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Trump says US 'may be banning' China-owned video app TikTok

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Reports: Trump to order China's ByteDance to sell TikTok

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Prosecutors: Pennsylvania man gets 20 years for threatening President Trump

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Trump faces rare rebuke from GOP for floating election delay

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Fauci to testify before US House Covid-19 panel after being blocked by White House

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Trump, GOP suggest temporary fix for $600 jobless benefit

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin (L) and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (R) listen prior to Trump's Marine One departure from the South Lawn of the White House July 29, 2020 in Washington, DC.

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Trump suggests delaying 2020 U.S. presidential election

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Trump offers to help pay for Vanessa Guillen funeral

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump met Thursday with the family of a soldier who investigators say was slain on the Texas Army base where she was stationed, saying it is a "terrible story" and that he would help with funeral expenses.The family of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose remains were found July 2 following her disappearance in April from Fort Hood, rallied with several dozen supporters before the meeting with Trump, calling for justice in the case and for changes in the way the military handles sexual abuse and harassment."It's an incredible story.

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Q&A: Questions stirred by Trump's idea of an election delay

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Coronavirus: Trump pays tribute to Herman Cain, says they mourn all those who died of COVID-19

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‘He asked for the election to be delayed?‘ Florida governor responds to President Trump’s tweet

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Trump suggests delaying November election -- but date is set by Congress

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Donald Trump suggests delaying U.S. election due to mail-in voting

Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning and called for the 2020 presidential election to be delayed due to mail-in voting.Trump has been attacking mail-in voting for months as health and government officials are trying to make it easier and safer to vote during the coronavirus pandemic.Health officials have said voting by mail can help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but Trump has made clear he believes widespread mail-in voting would benefit Democrats.“With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA.

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As coronavirus aid talks stalemate, President Trump scorns help for cities

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Wednesday dismissed Democratic demands for aid to cash-strapped cities in a new coronavirus relief package and lashed out at Republican allies as talks stalemated over assistance for millions of Americans. Republicans, beset by delays and infighting, signaled a willingness to swiftly approve a modest package to revamp a $600 weekly unemployment benefit that runs out.

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Pandemic advice ignored by Donald Trump helps Vietnam fight coronavirus

coronavirus infections by embracing U.S.-supported pandemic strategies that the Trump administration largely ignored.Now the Southeast Asian country is using the plan to combat its first cases in more than three months, seeking to keep its record as one of the few places in the world that hasn’t reported a single Covid-19 death as of this week.Even before Vietnam confirmed its first cases in late January, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc ordered officials to break out the blueprint developed in 2014 during a global health security project, funded in part by US-AID and created with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations.

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Zuckerberg questioned on Facebook’s decision to ‘censor’ post by Donald Trump Jr…on Twitter

Speaking at a hearing Wednesday by the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was questioned by Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R- WI) on his company’s decision to “censor” a post by Donald Trump Jr. extolling the virtues of Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment – only for Zuckerberg to respond that the post in question was made on Twitter, not Facebook.

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Trump backs doctor who believes in COVID-19 cure and ‘demon sperm’

Donald Trump‘s disproven theory about hydroxychloroquine, also believes that dream sex with demons will make you sick.Immanuel was one of the main speakers in a misinformation-filled viral video from America’s Frontline Doctors, a coronavirus skeptic group that caught the president’s eye earlier this week. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube banned the video under their misinformation policies after it racked up millions of views, in part thanks to a retweet from Trump on Monday.The video shows Immanuel and other doctors pushing misinformation about the virus, including false claims that masks do nothing and that hydroxychloroquine can cure COVID-19.

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Madonna Covid-19 conspiracy post from 'demon sperm' theorist deleted for fake info

Madonna posted a controversial coronavirus conspiracy video on Instagram, but the posts has since been removed from the social media site after fans reportedly flagged the questionable clip.

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Madonna's bizarre Covid conspiracy post from 'demon sperm' theorist deleted for fake info

Madonna's social media post about a false coronavirus story appears to have been removed from Instagram, after fans flagged it down.

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Man denies Covid-19 exists then feels 'guilty' after 14 relatives get bug at his dinner

coronavirus conspiracy theorist who hosted a family reunion has admitted his shame after 14 of his relatives caught Covid-19, one of whom has now died. Tony Green, a Texas political consultant and lobbyist, has opened up about his change of heart in a deeply personal column in local LGBT outlet Dallas Voice.

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Trump praises 'spectacular' doctor promoting conspiracy theories

US President Donald Trump's much heralded new tone on the coronavirus pandemic evaporated in a burst of misleading medical speculation, criticism for his own top virus expert, and praise for an eccentric preacher-doctor touting conspiracy theories.

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US to possibly supply coronavirus vaccine to other countries, says Donald Trump

Donald Trump during a press briefing said the United States may provide a vaccine for the novel coronavirus to other countries when it is ready."When we have that vaccine it will be discharged and taken care of," Trump told reporters on Tuesday.

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Coronavirus: Trump strikes deal with Kodak to begin making pharmaceuticals

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday his government had struck a deal with former photography giant Kodak, under the Defense Production Act, to begin making pharmaceuticals in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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