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YouTube has agreed to pay $22 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after the company suspended his account over the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, according to a court filing Monday. The online video platform, a subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, is the latest Big Tech firm to settle with Trump after he lodged legal cases challenging his broad deplatforming after January 6. The $22 million will go toward Trump's latest construction project at the White House, through a nonprofit called Trust for the National Mall, which is "dedicated to restoring, preserving, and elevating...

<p>Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.</p><p>It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million. The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by Reid Hoffman the billionaire capitalist, and mega-donor to the Democratic Party and leftwing causes.</p>

Trump must pay $ 83.3 MILLION to E. Jean Carroll for defamation, a federal jury has ruled

People who used Google search between 2006 and 2013 could be eligible for a portion of a $23 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against the Big Tech giant. Google is accused of sharing users’ search queries with third-party websites and companies without their consent from Oct. 25, 2006, to Sept. 30, 2013, according to a notice of proposed settlement of the class action suit. (pdf). While Google has not made any admissions of wrongdoing, it has agreed to enter into the settlement (pdf) to avoid burdensome and costly litigation, according to the Kroll Settlement Administration, which is involved...

A BLM activist accused of trying to assassinate a Jewish mayoral candidate has been pictured with Barack Obama, as his alleged victim slammed the 'broken criminal justice system' for freeing the suspected shooter on bail. Quintez Brown, 21, was one of 22 people chosen to meet the former President of the United States in 2019 as part of Obama's My Brother's Keeper Alliance, which is aimed at closing achievement gaps facing young boys and men of color. Brown, of Louisville in Kentucky, was pictured smiling behind the president, and even named as a future star by the Obama Foundation website,...

K Street lobbyists haven’t squealed so loudly about proposed changes to the corporate tax code since they lost their three martini lunches. The uproar has drawn attention away from the fact that U.S. multinational corporations enjoy an effective tax rate of just 2.4 percent on billions of dollars in foreign active earnings. In early May, the Obama administration announced plans to eliminate the advantages that multinational corporations have over domestic corporations when it comes to the tax treatment of reinvested profits. The reforms were part of a larger tax reform package that includes a pledge to step up the government’s...

The military flyover Manhattan yesterday costs $328,835.00

Remember when you were a kid and you were all excited about Christmas? Well, democrats were so giddy about the apparently impending indictments of Libby and Rove that they started saying, "Merry Fitzmas". Now, remember when you had your heart set on the one item you wanted for Christmas and you cast aside sweaters, scarves and the like as you seached for the coveted item under the tree? Well, my friends, it is Fitzmas morning and all the democrats got were socks! No charges pertaining to the outing of a CIA agent. No charges against Rove. The best they can...

We're OVER 7.5 TRILLION now

<p>Californians went to the trouble of recalling their governor in order to put in power a leader willing to make tough choices and stand up to a free-spending Legislature. Yes, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has maneuvered the Legislature into undoing SB 60, the blockheaded law that gave illegal immigrants the right to California driver's licenses, and overturned the illegal tripling of the vehicle license fee.</p>