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Nearly 500 pages of evidence were made public during the House Judiciary’s marathon hearing this week on potential anti-competitive actions by Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple. We’ve collected them here with added context and an omnibus, searchable version f... More »
Disney Plus is an on-demand, ad-free streaming service with a growing collection of movies and shows from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and 20th Century Fox. The streaming platform costs $6.99 a month or $69.99 a year. You can als... More »
Tan-Luxe's Wonder Oil features a roller-ball applicator to give you a more even tan. The oil doesn't feel sticky or uncomfortable. To be honest, I don't think I could ever go back to a mousse because of the sticky, residue-like feeling it leaves behind. Whi... More »
Phillip Guttmann is a writer, producer and licensed therapist who lives in Los Angeles. He traveled to New York City back in March and contracted COVID-19. He remembers calling his family to say his final goodbyes before being placed in a medically induced com... More »
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook are all reporting their second-quarter earnings on Thursday. These four, along with Microsoft, are the five most-valuable publicly traded companies on the S&P 500. These earnings reports come one day after the CEOs of Appl... More »
While there are many close friendships among tech CEOs in Silicon Valley, there are plenty of feuds, too. Some appear to be friendly rivalries — like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison — but others have become more contentious. Tim Cook... More »
Bose has long been known for making some of the best noise cancelling headphones out there. The company's latest model, the Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, offers a modern design and excellent audio quality. The Soapstone version of the headphones is now ... More »
A recession is a period of decline in general economic activity, typically defined when an economy experiences a decrease in its gross domestic product for two consecutive quarters. Other recession indicators include rising unemployment, falling retail sales,... More »
US stocks slid on Thursday after economic data showed the US's biggest gross domestic product contraction on record. The country's economy shrank at an annualized rate of 33% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department announced Thursday. Economists expecte... More »
In the past few weeks, a new vocabulary has emerged among parenting social media groups: pandemic pods, copods, microschools, homeschool pods. All describe cobbled-together groups of students who will study at home together this fall as the pandemic creeps int... More »
For the first time in weeks, the Senate and the House were in session at the same time. Here is what the week ending July 24 in the Capitol looked like through the eyes of CQ Roll Call photojournalists. The post Photos of the week: House and Senate work on vir... More »
Gary Neville has ruled out Manchester United making a title charge next season. The Reds climbed to third in the Premier League table as they were held by West Ham in a 1-1 draw at Old Trafford on Wednesday. The stalemate extended their unbeaten league run to ... More »
