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Today’s prime tales
Closing arguments wrapped up right now within the authorities’s antitrust lawsuit towards Google. The Justice Department has accused the tech large of illegally abusing its monopoly energy by paying billions to firms like Apple, Samsung and Mozilla to be the default search engine on their units — pushing rivals out of the market and leaving clients with a lower-quality expertise. Google says it is the most well-liked search engine as a result of it is the very best — not due to its enterprise dealings. Here’s what you need to know about the place issues stand.
The Department of Justice and a gaggle of 35 states sued Google in 2020 for allegedly utilizing anticompetitive techniques to monopolize on-line search. The trial is over and shutting arguments are below approach.
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The Department of Justice and a gaggle of 35 states sued Google in 2020 for allegedly utilizing anticompetitive techniques to monopolize on-line search. The trial is over and shutting arguments are below approach.
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- On Up First, NPR’s Dara Kerr says the choose has been asking very pointed questions and poking holes in both sides’ arguments. “So, the judge has really given no indication of which way he’ll side,” Kerr stories. If he finds that Google acted illegally, the choose might sanction Google with fines or break up the corporate. “This decision has the real potential to change how we experience the internet,” says Kerr.
After greater than every week of silence, President Biden addressed the pro-Palestinian protests on faculty campuses yesterday. In a brief speech, he stressed the need for a balance between free speech and the rule of legislation. He defended the protests towards the warfare in Gaza taking place at schools throughout the nation however emphasised that there is no place for antisemitism or hate speech in America.
- “Biden very clearly does have a lot of work to do to win over young, progressive voters who are disappointed with his approach to the war,” NPR’s Tamara Keith says. But she says that didn’t appear to be his goal yesterday, as he acknowledged that the protests haven’t compelled him to rethink his Mideast coverage.
Stay up to date on campus protests over the Gaza warfare here.Protests have additionally roiled the nation of Georgia for the previous a number of weeks. Demonstrators are rejecting a invoice the nation’s parliament is contemplating that might require organizations receiving greater than 20% of their funding from overseas to register as brokers of overseas affect, a requirement opponents assault as authoritarian and Kremlin-inspired.
- The U.S. and Europe have urged Georgia’s authorities to rethink the legislation as they warned it can damage Georgia’s long-term prospects to join the EU and NATO, NPR’s Charles Maynes says. But Maynes says the issue is that the federal government already backed off the legislation final yr as a consequence of mass protests, and it appears decided to not bow to public stress a second time.
Today’s hear
Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne in-studio behind the mic, 2007.
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Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne in-studio behind the mic, 2007.
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NPR’s Steve Inskeep is celebrating 20 years within the Morning Edition host chair right now. He’s joined by a well-recognized face: Renee Montagne, who co-hosted the present with him from 2004 to 2016.
Listen to archival clips from Steve’s most iconic tales and interviews as he and Renee look back on the last two decades of his profession. Congratulations, Steve!
Weekend picks
Ryan Gosling is Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy.
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Ryan Gosling is Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy.
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Check out what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
Movies: Ryan Gosling is a splendidly expressive goofball in The Fall Guy. He performs Colt Seavers, a stuntman returning to his job below mysterious circumstances after a life-threatening harm.
TV: NPR’s David Bianculli is satisfied that Elisabeth Moss is taking part in her greatest position but in The Veil. The new FX collection follows a number of totally different spy businesses as they attempt to uncover the main points of a suspected new 9/11 terrorist plot.
Books: Many philosophical concepts get an airing in Rachel Khong’s newest novel, Real Americans, together with the existence of free will and the ethics of altering genomes to pick for “favorable” inheritable traits.
Music: Kendrick Lamar is Drake’s greatest hater. He lately launched a six-minute observe aimed at Drake as a rap artist and an assassination of Drake’s character on a human degree.
Podcast: All Things Considered host Rachel Martin has a brand new podcast. Wild Card is an element interview, half existential recreation present, as visitors are invited to play a recreation about life’s greatest questions. Listen to the primary episode with comedian and actress Jenny Slate now.
Quiz: My second-ever excellent rating on the NPR information quiz feels simply as candy as the primary. How well will you do?
three issues to know earlier than you go
When hobbyist photographer Michael Sanchez snapped this image of a blue rock-thrush subspecies on the coast of northern Oregon final week, he did not understand how uncommon the hen was till he posted it to social media.
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When hobbyist photographer Michael Sanchez snapped this image of a blue rock-thrush subspecies on the coast of northern Oregon final week, he did not understand how uncommon the hen was till he posted it to social media.
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- Amateur photographer Michael Sanchez turned the envy of birders all over the place when he snapped a photograph of the first-ever sighting of a blue rock-thrush within the U.S. throughout his journey to Oregon.
- Joshua Dean, a former Boeing high quality auditor who raised issues about Boeing jets, has died. His household mentioned he shortly fell into important situation after being recognized with a MRSA bacterial an infection. He’s the second Boeing-related whistleblower to die previously three months.
- A gaggle of Black Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced laws known as the CROWN Act within the House of Representatives. The invoice goals to make discrimination based on a person’s hairstyle or hair texture unlawful.
This e-newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.