The British competition watchdog found Apple and Google held an “effective duopoly,” with around 90%-100% of U.K. mobile services running on their platforms.LONDON (AFP) — Apple and Google have pledged changes to ensure fairness in their app stores, the U.K. competition watchdog said Tuesday, describing it as “first steps” under…

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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-China) gets shut down by acting ICE director Todd Lyons during a hearing on Tuesday. Credit: CNN screenshot Rep. Eric “Fang Fang” Swalwell (D-China) was left humiliated today after trying to con the director of ICE into throwing in the towel when an inconvenient fact was pointed…

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faced challenges over his Epstein ties during a Tuesday hearing. Sitting before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Lutnick was accosted over what some believe was a misrepresentation of his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein. Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland,…

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A man waits in a hospital in the city of Irvine, Calif., on July 8, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch TimesDenials of prior authorization requests in the Medicare Advantage program reached a six-year high in 2024.Medicare Advantage is an alternative to traditional Medicare in which claims are managed by commercial health…

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Fever, diarrhea, low vaccination coverage, unsafe water and collapsing health systems are turning treatable illnesses “into death sentences” in what the global agency calls one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.GENEVA (AFP) — The United Nations warned Tuesday that time was running out for malnourished children in Sudan and urged…

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https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/the-endangerment-finding-was-pre DR. MATTHEW WIELICKI The most important climate decision in modern U.S. history is quietly being dismantled. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is moving to repeal the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding — the regulatory keystone that enabled fifteen years of climate rules, vehicle mandates, power-sector…

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Winegrowers are also dealing with over-production as changing drinking habits, fierce competition and export difficulties have lowered demand.PARIS (AFP) — U.S. tariffs hit French wine and spirits shipments hard last year, playing a major role in the overall drop of 8% in value of one of France’s top exports, a…

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An immigration court has rejected the Trump administration’s deportation bid of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish national and pro-Palestinian Tufts University student.Öztürk’s lawyers announced the court’s decision on Monday, saying that it had found the government “had not met its burden of proving removability” and terminated her deportation proceedings, The Hill news outlet reported. Öztürk was arrested last March…

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that his office launched a formal investigation into a proposed massive “sustainable city” development in Kaufman County, Texas. The probe centers on allegations that the Dubai-linked project could be an unlawful attempt to establish a “sharia city” on American soil, potentially accommodating up…

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