Democratic presidential nominee Joe BidenJoe BidenTrump asks campaign to schedule daily events for him until election: report White House pushes to hold next week’s canceled debate Trump hoping to strike last-minute nuclear arms deal with Putin before election: report MORE told reporters on Monday that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s religious […]
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Armenia and Azerbaijan’s Supporters Are At War Around the World, Using Social Media to Fight
As South Caucasus rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan battle over a breakaway region at the heart of a long-running ethnic and territorial dispute, supporters of the two countries are fighting on another front that may have even more impact on the final outcome: the battle for online supremacy. © KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty […]
Partisan groups ready their war rooms for public relations fight over Barrett nomination
WASHINGTON — With the spotlight in Washington this week on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, an army of outside partisan groups has set up rapid response operations to both defend and prosecute Barrett’s record and try to sway public opinion. Barrett’s nomination […]
Leif Erikson Day Vs. Christopher Columbus Day Is Just Another Thing To Fight About On Social Media
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Today marked “Leif Erikson Day,” which commemorates the “discovery of the New World” by the Norse … [+] explorer from Iceland getty Social media has become the platform to vent, complain and call others horrible names – so the latest round of fighting isn’t about two old white guys running […]
UFC Fight Night 179 Results: Cory Sandhagen, Edson Barboza Highlight Winners | Bleacher Report
Jacqueline Larma/Associated Press Cory Sandhagen took a big step toward capturing the UFC bantamweight championship with a second-round TKO win over Marlon Moraes in the main event of UFC Fight Night 179 from Fight Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Saturday. The first round was a quick demonstration […]
UFC Fight Night results, highlights: Cory Sandhagen makes statement with spinning TKO of Marlon Moraes
Things could not have gone much worse for Cory Sandhagen at UFC 250 in June, where he was submitted in less than 90 seconds by Aljamain Sterling in a fight that was expected to set the winner up for a bantamweight title shot. He made up for that loss in […]
Whitmer plot a new twist in fight for battleground Michigan
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wears a mask with the word “vote” displayed on the front during a roundtable discussion on healthcare, Wednesday Oct. 7, 2020, in Kalamazoo, Mich. The arrest of a group of anti-government vigilantes in a kidnapping plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer presents a new twist in […]
GSK Can’t Get High Court Review In Avandia Marketing Fight
Law360 (October 5, 2020, 5:17 PM EDT) — The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up an appeal by GlaxoSmithKline in its bid to overturn a Third Circuit decision forcing it to face a suit over the marketing of diabetes medication Avandia, the high court announced Monday. As is custom, […]
If the Democrats win the Senate, Big Tech better be ready for a bigger fight
If the Democrats manage to win control of the Senate in the coming election, the pressure on Silicon Valley would only grow. Democratic senators have signaled a willingness to make substantial changes to antitrust law and advocate breakups of the largest American tech companies, including campaigning for president on the […]
Amidst Pandemic, Lendmark Financial Raises More Than $600K to Fight Childhood Cancer
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct 5, 2020– Lendmark Financial Services, a leading provider of household credit and consumer loan solutions, today announced the company has raised more than $615,000 for its fifth annual Climb to CURE fundraising and awareness campaign. The money raised will go directly to CURE Childhood Cancer, a nonprofit dedicated […]
Big Tech quiet in data privacy initiative fight
Proposition 24 on the November ballot is pitched as an expansion of California’s already robust consumer data privacy law, an iron cuff on the claws of companies that profit handsomely from tracking and selling your online search, travel and purchase habits to marketers. But the technology giants seemingly square in […]
Monique Samuels Considers Quitting the Show After Fight with Candiace Dillard
Getty Images Monique Samuels Monique Samuels wants to do better. On Sunday’s episode of The Real Housewives of Potomac, Monique, 36, tearfully expressed to her fellow Housewives that she may take a step back from the show following her brutal brawl with Candiace Dillard. (The physical altercation aired last week.) […]
Line Corp gears up for food fight in Thailand
By Sam Nussey and Fanny Potkin TOKYO/SINGAPORE, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Line Corp’s 3938.T food delivery business in Thailand is gearing up for a prolonged battle with players ranging from SoftBank-backed Grab to banks after a merger with a listings heavyweight and an outside capital injection. Expansion in food delivery […]
Food fight: Brick-and-mortar restaurant objects to food truck’s close proximity | Featured-ght
GAYLORD — Tony Vaden, owner of the Pine Squirrel Bar and Grill, believes it’s an unfair advantage for a food truck to operate directly across from his business on South Otsego Avenue in Gaylord. Kim Taylor of Gaylord, who owns the food truck, said he does not see the close […]
Prepare for a Fight Over This Fund Management Asset
Yes, the mergers that produced market behemoths Standard Life Aberdeen Plc and Janus Henderson Group Plc were bedeviled by the complication of combining different cultures, and the ensuing outflows of customer cash have deterred other firms from following suit. But the motivation that spurred those tie-ups – the need to bulk up and […]
Putting Your Washing Machine Into the Fight Against Ocean Plastic
(Bloomberg) — Mojca Zupan was a corporate lawyer doing just fine—“comfort-zone-fine,” as she puts it—in 2016, when a museum exhibit changed her life. © Photographer: Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images A picture taken on April 29, 2012 shows self-service laundry machines The Plastic Garbage Project depicts the “the origins, life cycle, sense, and senselessness […]
Apple, Epic Games head into court with app store fight
Sept. 28 (UPI) — Apple and Epic Games head to court in California Monday to begin a legal battle that experts say could lead to a landmark decision reshaping the relationships between app stores and developers. The legal fight stems from Apple’s decision to pull Epic’s popular Fortnite video game […]
This Entrepreneur Was SIM Swapped So Often, He Started a Company to Fight It
The first time he was SIM-swapped in 2018, Haseeb Awan took it on the chin and hoped it wouldn’t happen again. Then came the second incident. Then the third. Then the fourth. After the last swap, Awan stopped trusting his mobile provider to keep his account safe and took matters […]
U.S. Military, Spies and Allies Fight Fake News on Social Media With Wit and Humor
The U.S. military may be the country’s warfighting machine, but its many personnel operate in a wide range of fields, including across social media, where U.S. officers are working alongside spies and allies not only to battle disinformation from foreign forces and trolls, but also engaging with users in sometimes […]
Secret Service stepping up in fight against cyber-enabled financial crimes
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Sometimes overlooked in the great cybersecurity battle is the role of the Secret Service. Drawing on its heritage of stopping currency counterfeiting, the Secret Service investigates cyber enabled financial crimes of all […]