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Four of the nation's most powerful CEOs beamed into a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday and raised their hands to swear to tell the truth as they faced a barrage of questions on one major issue: Are their companies too big and powerful for America's good? Lawmakers hammered Google Sundar Pichai about his company's relations with China and whether it steals ideas from other businesses, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg about a blizzard of disinformation plaguing his social network, and Apple CEO Tim Cook on whether his iPhone-maker strong-arms developers on its App Store.

More than 60 percent of voters think the U.S. should fully test any coronavirus vaccine — even if that delays rolling it out and allows the virus to keep spreading in the meantime, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Just 22 percent of respondents said the government should make a vaccine available as soon as possible, even if it had not been fully tested. Republicans (26 percent) were slightly more likely than Democrats (21 percent) to favor getting a vaccine out as quickly as possible.

A new poll finds President Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden tied in Georgia, a traditionally red state that has not gone for the Democratic presidential nominee since 1992. The latest Monmouth University survey finds Trump and Biden each at 47 percent support, with 3 percent supporting Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and 3 percent undecided. Forty-two percent of Trump’s supporters say they’re certain to vote for him, compared to 39 percent of Biden’s supporters. Forty-five percent of voters say there’s no way they’ll vote for Trump, and 44 percent said the same of the former vice president.

More than 150,000 people in the United States have died from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University, while tens of thousands more are struggling in hospitals as the pandemic spreads virtually unchecked in almost every state in the nation. Six months after the virus was first reported on American soil, it is poised to be the third-leading cause of death this year, behind only heart disease and cancer. It has already killed more people in the United States than the number of Union soldiers who died in the Civil War.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) announced Wednesday that the Trump administration has agreed to begin withdrawing federal tactical teams from Portland, Ore., which for weeks has been the site of violent clashes between officers and protesters. Brown said in a statement that an agreement for federal agents to leave the city was reached following discussions with administration officials including Vice President Pence. She said that officers from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement would begin their withdrawal on Thursday. “These federal officers have acted as an occupying force, refused accountability, and brought violence and strife to our community," Brown.

Attorney General William Barr is sworn in. "Pleased to be here this morning," he says. Attorney General William Barr is appearing before House lawmakers Tuesday in a long-awaited showdown between congressional Democrats and one of the President's most effective enforcers. The start of the hearing was delayed Tuesday morning after House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler was involved in a car accident that did not involve another vehicle on his way to Washington, a spokesman said. Nadler, who was not driving, was not hurt, the spokesman said, but the start of the hearing was delayed until after 11 a.m. ET as a result.

GOP Rep Matt Gaetz asks AG Bill Barr to investigate Mark Zuckerberg for 'lying under oath' about Facebook's 'anti-conservative bias'. In the hearings Zuckerberg 'repeatedly and categorically denied any bias against conservative speech' in Facebook's content moderation, Gaetz wrote. The Florida Republican cited a Project Veritas report which claimed Facebook does censor posts that are pro-Trump or contain conservative views. Project Veritas is a right-wing activist group known to traffic misinformation. Gaetz called for Barr to open a Justice Department investigation into whether Zuckerberg broke US law with 'materially false statements under oath'

Is Instagram SPYING on its users? Apple's iOS 14 warns customer that the Facebook-owned app was accessing their iPhone camera even when not in use - but the company insists it was just a 'bug' Apple's new iOS 14 is out in public beta and comes with privacy feature, It notifies users when apps access their device's camera in the background, a Twitter user shared an image of a recording indicator on their iPhone. It appeared while they were scrolling through their Instagram feed.

American Frontline Doctors hosting a “White Coat Summit” on Capitol Hill TODAY and tomorrow (July 27-28) accused Gilead Sciences and others of manipulating the American Health Care System to stop the use of "Safe & Effective" Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, while addressing what they call “a massive disinformation campaign” surrounding the Chinese coronavirus to which “American life has fallen casualty.”  Gilead has long been accused of manipulating health care systems, In 2005, Gilead Sciences notified federal regulators that it was suspending development of a potentially safer, more potent HIV-fighting drug than the one on the market. The company did not restart its Food and Drug

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday unveiled the Republican HEALS act to address the coronavirus pandemic — including another round of $1,200 stimulus checks. McConnell said the bill, expected to cost about $1 trillion, gives a liability shield to businesses and funds to schools. It caps at 70 percent of pre-pandemic pay a federal unemployment insurance supplement that lapsed last week. #HEALS #1200 #StimulusCheck

The board of directors and bargaining team for the union representing teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District is recommending campuses remain closed when the new school year begins Aug. 18, and the union as a whole is expected to take the same stance. United Teachers Los Angeles wants the district to focus on online classes for the fall semester. Read through the document, it is a complete political statement and agenda to gain more money, more money, more money.  #LAUSD #Schools #Covid #Opening Same_Storm_Diff_Boats_final.pdf

OpEd By Wayne Allyn Root I cannot express how truly sad writing this OpEd has made me. But I’m a patriotic American. And I’m an American Jew. I have studied the beginnings of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. And I can clearly see parallels with what is happening in America today. Thank God we have President Trump (at the moment) keeping us from heading too far down this tragic path. But I must warn my fellow Americans, we are clearly headed in a frightening and tragic direction.  I know I’m not alone. A recent poll shows 80% of the American public believes things are spiraling “out of control.” I never thought I’d write the following words about living in America: Those caught in the middle o

A few weeks ago the world observed World Oceans Day — a day on which we're meant to celebrate and honor our oceans. Sadly, June 8 gave us even less cause for celebration this year. As Covid-19 has spread across the globe, it's left in its wake havoc — on the health of people, on countries' economies and people's wellbeing and, despite initial hopes that the coronavirus pandemic might be good for Earth, on the environment. In February, marine conservation agency Oceans Asia reported finding masses of surgical masks on the shoreline of the Soko Islands — a cluster of uninhabited islands off the coast of Lantau Island in Hong Kong, where the agency is carrying out research on plastic pollution.

First, health officials said we shouldn't wear face masks. Then, they said we should. Now, many are saying we must wear masks if we want to protect the economy, reopen more schools and save tens of thousands of lives. "Dr. Fauci said don't wear a mask. Our surgeon general, terrific guy, said don't wear a mask. Everybody was saying don't wear a mask," Trump told Fox News' Chris Wallace in an interview that aired Sunday.

The Trump administration has been consulting Bush torture lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding, on how the president might try to rule by decree. John Yoo told Axios he has been talking to White House officials about his view that a recent supreme court ruling on immigration would allow Trump to issue executive orders that flout federal law. In a Fox News Sunday interview, Trump declared he would try to use that interpretation to try to force through decrees on healthcare, immigration and “various other plans” over the coming month.

The gunman suspected of killing the son and wounding the husband of a federal judge in New Jersey before taking his own life in New York’s Catskills has been identified as lawyer and men’s rights activist Roy Den Hollander, federal sources said. Hollander had a case pending before Salas, challenging the military’s men-only draft, according to The Daily Beast, which first reported his involvement in the case. Investigators believe Salas’ husband was the intended target. The motive remains unclear.

Reacting to The Post’s front page Monday, President Trump said Gov. Andrew Cuomo must squash a spike in violent crime in New York City — or he will send in federal authorities to restore order. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office he was particularly upset by reports that Brooklyn woman Shatavia Walls, 33, was shot to death after complaining about illegal fireworks. He said the NYPD is “afraid to do anything.” “We can’t let this happen to the cities. New York was up 348 percent, the crime wave.

The city’s coronavirus tracing program will start asking people if they’ve been at outdoor bars and restaurants to help understand the spike in cases among those between the ages of 20 and 29 — even though health officials never asked if people attended the George Floyd protests.

Three best friends were found slain in a “horrific scene” at a Florida lake after one of them called his father for help, authorities said. Damion Tillman, 23, Keven Springfield, 30, and Brandon Rollins, 27, had planned to go night fishing Friday night at Lake Streety in Frostproof, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.

Quadrillion comes after trillion, and one quadrillion has 15 zeros. That's a payment of $18 million per citizen in their life time.   The U.S. Conference of Mayors released a letter backing a Democratic plan to form a reparations commission to come up with a payment for slavery. Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee have introduced legislation to create a commission, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act.

"This event has been declared a riot. Move to the east now. If you do not move to the east you will be subject to arrest or use of force to include crowd control munitions. Leave the area now," the Portland Police Bureau tweeted. It said protesters broke into the Portland Police Association office and set it on fire, CNN reported. In a separate protest near the federal building downtown, protesters could be seen dismantling a heavy metal fence set up around the building earlier as a barricade.

Republicans should be terrified. President Donald Trump's reelection prospects look increasingly grim, with polls showing that his ticket is vulnerable in states like North Carolina, Ohio and Texas. According to one recent Fox News poll, Joe Biden has a two-point lead over Trump in Georgia—where a Democratic presidential candidate has not won since 1992. The potential costs of another four years under Trump have become clear, and it seems voters are leaning blue. Trump has failed to contain the spread of Covid-19, and the US faces a deadly, tumultuous and dysfunctional future as other countries are reopening. Opinion by Julian Zelizer, CNN Political Analyst.

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll is the latest to show former Vice President Joe Biden on a roll.  Three and a half months ago the two candidates were virtually even in trust to handle the pandemic, Trump +2 percentage points, 45-43 percent. Today, with COVID-19 cases surging around the nation, Biden leads Trump on the issue by a 20-point margin, 54-34 percent. Biden has his own risks, particularly a pronounced lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy. Yet the impact of that deficit remains to be seen: For two-thirds of his supporters, it’s chiefly not about electing Biden, but about defeating Trump. Long-shot Joe leads President Donald Trump 55% to 40% among registered voters. (It's a slig

Donald Trump told reporters to quiz Prince Andrew about Jeffrey Epstein's 'pedophile island' as long ago as 2015, newly resurfaced footage reveals.  Trump described the island as a 'cesspool' and said reporters should 'just ask Prince Andrew, he'll tell you about it' while linking the Epstein scandal to his adversary Bill Clinton.  Andrew acknowledges that he visited Epstein on the Caribbean island and is under growing pressure to give evidence to US authorities, but says he never witnessed or suspected any of Epstein's crimes.

'I fear Sarah's next. ' Parents of Ghislaine Maxwell's 'lieutenant' Sarah Kellen worry their daughter will be arrested and charged in Epstein's child sex trafficking ring, as they claim teen was 'brainwashed'. She is accused of playing a pivotal role in Epstein's empire: procuring girls, coaching them and acting as a 'lieutenant' to Ghislaine Maxwell. They said they knew nothing about Kellen's work with Epstein because they became estranged from her around the time she took the job, aged 18 or 19. The Jehovah's Witnesses have only seen Kellen, 41, a handful of times and still find it upsetting to see her face in family portraits or hear her name.

Personal assistant, 21, is arrested after tech entrepreneur, 33, was found decapitated and dismembered in his $2.2million Manhattan apartment - after cops say he was caught embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from his boss.

he FBI is leading a federal inquiry into Twitter's security breach that saw hackers hijack high profile accounts - as the social media giant scrambles to investigate how its most catastrophic attack yet was able to occur. Sources say federal investigators are now probing the Twitter attack, which initially appears to have been a bitcoin scam but has sparked fears the hackers could have wreaked havoc on the stock market, meddled in elections or even potentially started a war.   A day on from the breach, which resulted in Twitter stopping all verified accounts from tweeting or resetting their passwords for hours as they tried to contain it, they have still not revealed how it happened or to wh

The Twitter account belonging to former Vice President Joe Biden was hacked on Wednesday, the account belonging to former President Barack Obama was hacked shortly after. The hack allegedly originated at a Twitter employee with access to the user management panel was, has affected hundreds of billionaires and politicians, including Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Elon Musk, Uber, Warren Buffet, Apple and Bill Gates. Tweets urged people to send money to a Bitcoin address, over $113,000 has been sent so far Twitter have responded saying: "We are investigating and taking steps to fix it"

It seems like Trump's enemies over at Project Lincoln have some more explaining to do. After co-founder Rick Wilson's ham-handed attempt to smear Trump supporters with a Confederate flag insult - only to have his family's own 'confederate cooler' exposed, filmmaker Mike Cernovich notes that Wilson's Project Lincoln co-founder, John Weaver, was paid by the Russian government as a consultant to JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), which owned by Putin-founded, government owned Rosatom - of 'Uranium One' fame. According to Politico, Weaver backed out of his contract with the Russian government after it was exposed in May.

CNNs Jake Tapper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta discuss a poster being sold by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) that seems to declare victory over Covid-19, despite many medical experts who say the coronavirus may come back.