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Joe Biden’s team announced this week that they hired the former head of the Latino Victory Fund (LVF), which ran a controversial ad during the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election portraying a white Donald Trump and Ed Gillespie supporter attempting to run down minority children.

Last year, the department’s Antitrust Division appealed a decision to allow AT&T’s $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner to go through, a challenge which was recently dismissed by a federal judge. “It came from the president,” Zucker, without citing any evidence, said when asked his thoughts about the appeal, reported Deadline.  “There was absolutely no basis to be doing what they were

WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed Friday to break up some of the nation’s biggest technology companies, casting Google, Amazon, Facebook, and others as the newest villains in the scathing picture of capitalism run amok that has framed her political rise and her presidential run. “They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else,” Warren wrote in a 1,700-word online post detailing her plan, which would reverse major tech mergers and break up companies, including Apple, that currently operate a marketplace or

Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Omar’s comments activated a long-standing anti-Jewish stereotype: that Diaspora Jews use money to exercise influence and political power.

Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Omar’s comments activated a long-standing anti-Jewish stereotype: that Diaspora Jews use money to exercise influence and political power.

Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Omar’s comments activated a long-standing anti-Jewish stereotype: that Diaspora Jews use money to exercise influence and political power.

Opinion | Michael A. Cohen Omar’s comments activated a long-standing anti-Jewish stereotype: that Diaspora Jews use money to exercise influence and political power.

Democratic lawmakers and taxpayer rights advocates are stepping up their calls for the IRS and Congress to provide more help for taxpayers during a filing season challenged by MORE's tax law and the recent government shutdown. Some want Congress and the IRS to extend the filing deadline.

The potential end to a controversial National Security Agency phone records collection program is energizing privacy groups and lawmakers who have long called for stricter limits on domestic surveillance powers. A top national security aide to House Minority Leader MORE (R-Calif.) recently revealed on a podcast that, for the past six months, the spy agency hasn't used a program that gathers metadata on domestic text messages and phone calls.

Lawmakers are buckling up for what they expect will be rocky negotiations this year over spending priorities for the fiscal 2020 defense budget. In an attempt to skirt budget caps, MORE is expected to propose more than doubling the amount of money in a war fund that is not subject to those funding limits. But that maneuver is viewed as a non-starter for Democrats and even some Republicans who say it will complicate talks from day one. “I’m very worried,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman MORE (D-Wash.) said about this year’s budget nego