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Nov 13 2020
News
Twitter Says Labels and Warnings Slowed Spread of False Election Claims
Twitter Inc. plans to continue its policy of labeling what it deems misleading information, despite persistent criticism from President Trump and other conservatives that it silences their commentary on the election.
In a blog post Thursday, Twitter said it had labeled approximately 300,000 tweets for content that was disputed and potentially misleading, representing 0.2% of all U.S.
Wall Street Journal (News)
Sep 03 2021
News
U.S. Jobs Post Smallest Gain in Seven Months Amid Delta Spread
U.S. hiring downshifted abruptly in August with the smallest jobs gain in seven months, complicating a potential decision by the Federal Reserve to begin scaling back monetary support in the coming months.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 235,000 last month after an upwardly revised 1.05 million gain in July, a Labor Department report showed Friday. The unemployment rate fell to 5.2%.
Bloomberg
May 17 2021
Analysis
‘Good’ inflation or ‘bad’? Investors are scared because they can’t tell difference just yet
The stock market is generally expected to benefit from inflation, but a long-predicted surge in U.S. prices rattled investors in the past week. A closer look at the historical record might indicate the source of concern, according to one Wall Street analyst.
For equities, there is “good” inflation and “bad” inflation, said Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, in a Thursday
MarketWatch
Sep 14 2019
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Here’s The Former NBC Exec Who’s Pushing Trump On Using Google To Determine Who Owns A Gun
One of the chief proponents urging the Trump administration to use big tech companies to collect data on users who could potentially conduct violent actions is a former NBC executive and long-time friend of President Donald Trump.
Reports show former NBC chairman Bob Wright has briefed Trump officials on a proposal to create an agency called Health Advanced Research Projects Agency, or
The Daily Caller
Jan 31 2021
Analysis
Tracking Twitter's Growth: Did Trump Ban Cause a Dip?
As COVID-19 began sweeping across the world last spring, Twitter experienced phenomenal growth with much of the planet’s population confined to their homes, helping the platform recover from a seven-year slump in daily tweet volume. As the pandemic has worn on, has Twitter continued to grow? How did the changes the platform made around the 2020 presidential election affect its growth and has
RealClearPolitics
Jul 28 2020
News
Trump Surrenders Lead In Texas Yet National Support Remains Constant, Latest Morning Consult Polls Show
President Donald Trump has surrendered his election lead in a pivotal state, the latest poll from Morning Consult shows.
The data — released early Tuesday morning — showed former Vice President Joe Biden leading Trump by two points in Texas. Trump previously held a seven-point lead over Biden in the state, per Morning Consult’s May polling. The survey includes responses from 2,685
The Daily Caller
Nov 29 2020
News
More than 91,000 people -- the most of the pandemic -- are hospitalized with coronavirus in the US
Following a month of skyrocketing Covid-19 cases, the US has reached its highest number yet of hospitalizations due to the virus.
The US surpassed 80,000 daily hospitalizations on November 19 and set new records steadily for 17 days straight until Friday, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Then on Saturday, the number reached 91,635. The spread of coronavirus has been climbing at
CNN (Online News)
Apr 27 2021
News
Covid-19 paused climate emissions – but they're rising again
The planet had already warmed by around 1.2C since pre-industrial times when the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020. This began a sudden and unprecedented drop in human activity, as much of the world went into lockdown and factories stopped operating, cars kept their engines off and planes were grounded.
There have been many monumental changes
BBC News
May 15 2020
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Retail sales fall a record 16.4 percent in April, far worse than predicted
Consumer spending tumbled a record 16.4% in April as the backbone of the U.S. economy retrenched amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a government report Friday.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected the advanced retail sales number to fall 12.3% after March’s reported 8.3% dive already had set a record for data going back to 1992. The March numbers were revised to be not as
CNBC
Feb 22 2021
News
Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago: At Least 18 Shot over Weekend
At least 18 people were shot, two fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times reports the first of the two fatalities was a man “between 30 to 40 years old” discovered facedown on the sidewalk Saturday morning. He had been shot in the back of the head and pronounced dead at a hospital.
The second fatality occurred just after 5 p.m. on
Breitbart News