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A bipartisan Senate antitrust bill aimed at reining in Big Tech is gaining momentum, leading to accusations that it imperils certain popular Amazon, Google, and Apple products.

Jake Paul has turned the boxing world upside down. The former YouTuber-turned-boxer has earned millions and become a must-see draw, and now he has the UFC and... 02.01.2022, Sputnik International

The NCAA must recognize players as the workers they are.

A technology advocacy coalition called Chamber of Progress takes aim at Sen. Chuck Grassley in online targeted ads for a new bill that would regulate Big Tech companies like Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google. The ad claims the bill would block Amazon from selling its brand name products and end free shipping for customers.

As expected, the Department of Justice has signed off on T-Mobile's controversial $26 billion merger with Sprint. You'd be...

Singer EAST ST. LOUIS – Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel denied certification of a national class alleging that Jimmy John’s restaurants suppressed wages through a ban on taking jobs at other Jimmy John’s locations.  She posted her decision on the docket on July 23, and sealed the order, giving the parties seven days to submit a joint redacted version.  The class would have included about 600,000 persons at about 2,800 locations.     Thirteen la...

Any release featuring South African alto saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi (1925-1983) is to be warmly welcomed. This is a reissue of a 1977 collaboration with the Paris-based Oklahoma-born tenor saxophonist Hal Singer (1919-2020) that has been unavailable for 40 years. Often introduced as ‘Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro’ by his close friend Abdullah Ibrahim, Moeketsi was a member of the Jazz Epistles, the trailblazing 1950s band, alongside Ibrahim, Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa, who all stated m...

Memorial Day marks the 100th anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, one of the deadliest episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, when the thriving African American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma — known as "Black Wall Street" — was burned to the ground by a white mob. An est...

Tracing Kansas City’s Ties to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Next Week Share this story Published 2 hours ago Above image credit: The ruins of "Black Wall Street" after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. (Courtesy | Library of Congress) Last October an Oklahoma forensic team found 12 unmarked coffins containing human remains in a Tulsa cemetery. What investigators called a “mass grave” represented evidence of what witnesses had ...

Program #328 (May 23 at 8:00pm) Versatile and sophisticated jazz guitarist Ron Jackson has performed, recorded and taught music in over 30 countries. With a varied career as a performer, composer and arranger, Highlights include shows and tours with artists such as Taj Mahal, Jimmy McGriff, Larry Coryell, Benny Golson, Oliver Lake, Russell Malone and Mulgrew Miller. Ron has been featured as a leader in jazz festivals all over the world, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Jazz Fest...