Daily Caller,
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Jason Cohen
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Google lost an antitrust case against popular video game maker Epic Games on Monday, with a jury ruling that the tech giant exerted “monopoly power” and engaged in anticompetitive conduct through its app store.
Epic, which makes Fortnite, alleged that Google stifles competition and imposes excessively costly charges on app makers using its Google Play Store. (snip)
Google and Epic will meet with U.S. District Judge James Donato in January to deliberate about possible remedies, which could significantly reduce the profits Google obtains and will likely force the tech giant to alter its business practices.
Fox News,
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Brandon Gillespie
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12/12/2023 3:35:02 PM
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The progressive president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) owes thousands in unpaid utility bills despite making an eye-popping salary, the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) has found.
According to the non-profit group, Stacy Davis Gates owes the city of Chicago $5,579 in unpaid water, sewer and trash bills as of Nov. 7, 2023, despite bringing home "at least" $289,000 a year.
(snip) Last month she was billed for back taxes due to an "unlawful deduction" she took on a home in Indiana. (snip) In September, Davis Gates defended sending her son to a private school despite being an outspoken critic of them.
Daily Caller,
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Kate Anderson
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12/12/2023 2:51:44 PM
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Democratic Attorney General Kwame Raoul of Illinois announced Monday that he filed a motion agreeing not to enforce a state law that targeted pregnancy centers for using alleged “deceptive acts” to lead women away from getting an abortion.
The law, Senate Bill 1909, was signed by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker in July and would punish pro-life pregnancy centers with $50,000 for using alleged “deceptive acts or practices” to prevent women from gaining access to abortion or “induce” a woman to use the services of the pregnancy center. (snip) a district court judge ruled in August that the law was “stupid” and “likely unconstitutional.”
Washington Examiner,
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Mabinty Quarshie
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12/11/2023 8:34:02 PM
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Longtime Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) filed for reelection just two days after a stinging electoral loss in Houston's mayoral race and before the 6 p.m. deadline on Monday to file.
Jackson Lee lost the mayoral runoff election on Saturday to another longtime Texas politician, Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire, who will helm the nation's fourth-largest city. The race had gone to a runoff after the pair of candidates advanced from the November all-party primary.
Post Millennial (Ottawa, Canada),
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Jarryd Jaeger
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12/11/2023 8:24:38 PM
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Officials in Seattle have decided against allowing the construction of a privately funded children's playground at Denny Blaine Park on Lake Washington, which is home to a nudist beach popular with the city's LGBTQ+ community. (snip)
Colleen Kimseylove, for example, told KING5 News that the beach has "always been a place for the weird and the wonderful," noting that, "what makes Seattle such a wonderful city is the weirdos." (snip) According to the KING5 News, Denny Blaine Park was originally chosen due to the fact that there are no playgrounds for residents within a 10-15 minute walk.
New York Post,
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Chris Nesi
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12/11/2023 1:45:49 PM
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A Texas high school basketball player attacked his coach in a parking lot after he was benched for unsportsmanlike conduct during a game earlier that night.
Jevin Allen, 17, and his brother Jarrick Allen, 22, who also allegedly participated in the beating, were arrested Dec. 5 for the assault that left the coach with injuries to his head, neck, face and arms, authorities said. The coach, who was not identified by name, told the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office that Jevin was benched during the away game “due to his behavior toward an opposing team player” — a disciplinary action that “infuriated” the teen and his family.
Variety,
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Gene Maddaus
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12/11/2023 1:30:34 PM
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A judge on Friday certified a class action lawsuit that alleges that Disney paid 9,000 women less than their male counterparts.
The suit is the largest ever certified under California’s Equal Pay Act, which makes it illegal for workers to be paid less for substantially similar work based on their gender.
Lori Andrus, the plaintiffs’ attorney, applauded the ruling outside the courtroom in downtown Los Angeles.
“Disney has been gaslighting these women for four years,” she said. “They love their jobs. They love the brand. But they want to be respected and treated the way they should be in the workplace.”
Disney expressed disappointment in a written statement.
Daily Caller,
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Katelynn Richardson
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12/11/2023 1:19:31 PM
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The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to a Washington state law prohibiting counselors from engaging in conversations that encourage changes to a minor’s “sexual orientation or gender identity.”
The law, adopted in 2018, threatens to fine counselors who violate it up to $5,000 and to revoke their license. The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Tingley v. Ferguson, a Christian family counselor Brian Tingley’s First Amendment challenge to the state’s “Counseling Censorship Law,” though Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas noted they would have taken the case.
Post Millennial (Ottawa, Canada),
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Libby Emmons
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12/9/2023 10:16:07 AM
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned Fatima Goss Graves during a hearing on Title IX on Tuesday, and claimed that boys should be allowed to compete in girls' scholastic athletics because preventing them from doing so would not only be transphobic, but racist against black women.
AOC believes men should be allowed to compete against women in order to protect women, specifically black women, despite so many women and girls having suffered injuries at the hands of male athletes who say they are trans and compete in women's athletics, and women losing out on awards, prizes, or scholarships as a result of men beating them in those games.
Post Millennial (Ottawa, Canada),
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Jarryd Jaeger
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12/9/2023 2:07:30 AM
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On Thursday, a woman was arrested after getting caught trying to burn down the birth home of American civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr in Atlanta, Georgia.
Laneisha Shantrice Henderson, 26, has since been charged with second-degree arson and, because the home is operated by the National Parks Service, interfering with government property.
Federalist,
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Tristan Justice
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12/8/2023 3:08:53 PM
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is investigating whether the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the infamous Hunter Biden laptop letter were paid by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). (snip) “We understand that former intelligence officials often return to the intelligence community under private contract for their previous agencies,” Jordan wrote. “It is vital to the Committees’ oversight to understand whether any of the signatories of the public statement were actively employed by CIA as contractors or consultants at the time they signed the public statement.”
Federalist,
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Margot Cleveland
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12/8/2023 3:02:43 PM
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A federal grand jury in California returned a multi-count indictment against Hunter Biden late Thursday, charging the president’s son with multiple tax offenses. (snip) What was missing from the lengthy indictment, however, was anything new of substance. On the contrary, the charges were so straightforward and stale that it’s incomprehensible they were not brought against Hunter Biden in 2019 or early 2020. The only logical explanation for the delay in charging Hunter was to interfere in the 2020 election by refraining from the Democrat candidate’s son.