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US regulators seek to break up Google, forcing Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment
U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.The proposed breakup floated in a 23-page document filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department calls for Google to sell its industry-leading Chrome web browser and impose restrictions designed to prevent its Android smartphone software from favoring its search engine.
The recommended penalties underscore how severely regulators... Read More
Percival Everett and Jason De León win National Book Awards
NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,” a daring reworking of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” has won the National Book Award for fiction. Jason De León’s “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling” won for nonfiction, where finalists included Salman Rushdie's memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, “Knife.”The prize for young people's literature was given Wednesday night to Shifa Saltagi Safadi’s coming of age story “Kareem Between,” and the poetry award went to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s “Something About... Read More
Chris Stapleton scores big early wins at the Country Music Association Awards
It was Chris Stapleton's night early at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday.The country traditionalist Stapleton, who has dominated many of the genre's awards shows in recent years, won both single and song of the year for “White Horse,” scoring something of an upset in both categories over Post Malone and Morgan Wallen's “I Had Some Help,” which led to Malone getting four nominations and helped Wallen get seven coming into the show.
Stapleton joined Malone to open the ceremony from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville with a performance of Malone's... Read More
A social media ban for children younger than 16 is introduced in Australia's Parliament
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s communications minister introduced a world-first law into Parliament on Thursday that would ban children younger than 16 from social media, saying online safety was one of parents’ toughest challenges.Michelle Rowland said TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram were among the platforms that would face fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic failures to prevent young children from holding accounts.
“This bill seeks to set a new normative value in society that accessing social... Read More
UConn coach Geno Auriemma breaks all-time wins record, getting 1,217th career victory
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Geno Auriemma soaked in the moment. The UConn Hall of Fame coach now stands alone atop the NCAA college basketball all-time wins list.Auriemma broke a tie with former Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer, earning his 1,217 career victory with an 85-41 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday night.
“We never sat down and said hey let's make a 40-year plan and see if we can make this happen," Auriemma said. “It's about coming here every day and trying to be better than we were yesterday.”
He has spent four decades building UConn into... Read More
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- UConn coach Geno Auriemma breaks all-time wins record, getting 1,217th career victory
- Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal take Cy Young Awards after both were pitching triple crown winners
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