Thursday's Headlines: Democrats and Republicans deliver lashing to big tech CEOs
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Democrats and Republicans criticized the executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google for wielding their market power to crush competitors and amass data, customers and sky-high profits.
A meeting between top White House officials and Democratic leaders ended with no agreement on extending emergency unemployment benefits that expire Friday or on reviving a moratorium on evictions that lapsed last week.
By Erica Werner, Jeff Stein, Seung Min Kim and Rachael Bade ●Read more »
The decision to hold in-person classes at 23 public schools across Detroit for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic closed classrooms in March has drawn protesters and a lawsuit.
Gov. Kate Brown (D) said the agents would pull out of downtown Thursday and depart the city soon thereafter. But acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf said the withdrawal was still a question of if, not when.
By Mark Berman, Nick Miroff, Marissa Lang and David Fahrenthold ●Read more »
The Trump administration has questioned the veracity of the intelligence. But some of the president's own senior intelligence officials viewed the information as credible enough to warn the Pentagon and allies.
Republicans who added trillions of dollars to the national debt are ignoring their own record to embrace the view that deficits will be at the forefront for a post-Trump GOP.
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