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In 2011, a class action lawsuit filed against Apple accused the company of operating an illegal monopoly by not allowing iPhone users to download mobile apps outside of its own App Store, reducing consumer choice. The antitrust case was eventually dismissed in 2013 by a U.S. district court in Northern California, due to errors in the complaint, leading to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit allowing it to proceed in 2017 .
Amanda Danielle Braun and Elizabeth Anne Shirey were married June 16. Rabbi Laurie E. Green officiated at the Mill at Fine Creek, an events space in Powhatan, Va. Ms. Braun , 28, is the deputy organizing director and training director in the Richmond, Va., chapter of For Our Future, a political action committee that supports progressive issues and candidates.
WASHINGTON Congress isn't done with the Hillary Clinton email investigation of 2016, despite an independent watchdog report that found no political bias by the FBI or Department of Justice in how the case was handled. Even before the 568-page report was released on Thursday, the Senate and House judiciary committees had scheduled hearings to question the report's author Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz about his findings.
The emotional policy of separating children from their parents is also starting to divide Republicans and their allies as Democrats turn up the pressure. Former first lady Laura Bush called the policy "cruel" and "immoral" while GOP Sen. Susan Collins expressed concern about it and a former adviser to President Donald Trump said he thought the issue was going to hurt the president at some point.
Amid intense nationwide debate over immigration policies, a California school board is naming a new elementary school after an undocumented immigrant. The school in Mountain View, California, will now hold the name of Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who came to the United States from the Philippines in 1993 when he was 12. "I don't really have words for how meaningful this honor is, I've been speechless for a few days," Vargas, 37, told CNN.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint plan on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. less Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint ... more Stephanie Miner, the former Syracuse mayor and one-time ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, announced that she's mounting an independent bid for governor. "The price of politics as usual and the cost of corruption is weighing us all down.
On Father's Day, hundreds of protesters descended on a Texas border outpost where a new tent city has been erected to detain immigrant children, according to NPR. The Trump administration announced the new facility would be opening in Tornillo, Texas - just outside of El Paso - last Thursday.
AG SEC'Y PERDUE SAYS TRADE AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO SOONER THAN WITH CANADA Jun. 18, 2018 Agri-Pulse reports: From here on out you expect the U.S. to split its efforts on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement between talks with Mexico and separate talks with Canada. That's according to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue, who on Friday said he expects the talks with Mexico to go much quicker and hopefully wrap up before Mexico's presidential election on July 1. "We feel more optimistic in a Mexican agreement sooner than Canada," Perdue explained during a trip to Canada where he spent the day with Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Lawrence MacAulay.
"Heitkamp's talk of deficits is pure speculation and none of it takes into account the economic growth the Trump pro-growth agenda is delivering." - statement on the website Get the Facts ND, June 4, 2018 One pernicious response to the growth of political fact-checking is the trend by politicians to create their own faux fact-checking websites.
Addison Mitchell McConnell Congress had a good couple of weeks - now let's keep it going McCarthy: 'The Mueller investigation has got to stop' McConnell: Mueller 'ought to wrap it up' MORE is signaling to colleagues that he will loosen his grip on floor debate to quell mounting frustration within the Senate GOP over the paltry number of votes he has allowed on amendments. McConnell, who last week became the longest-serving GOP Senate leader in history, is seeking to avoid another blowup over the issue given the tensions within his ranks.
In this June 15, 2018 file photo, Chris Olson, of Lake Wallenpaupack, Pa., holds a sign outside Lackawanna College where U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions spoke on immigration policy and law enforcement actions, in Scranton, Pa.
Welcome to The Hill's Morning Report , and happy Monday! Our daily email gets you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch, co-created by Jonathan Easley and Alexis Simendinger. James Robert Clapper Media can't admit Trump just had his best 24 hours Clapper gives Putin what he wants with 2016 election assessment Clapper: Trump won't fire Mueller, he'll just keep undermining his investigation MORE , former director of national intelligence, discusses the Russian attempt to influence the 2016 U.S. election as well as his new book, "Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in Intelligence."
A sophisticated mind can be defined as being able to deal with several paradoxes at a time. In a sense, Donald Trump can rightly be called President Paradox because of the many he has set in train.
The U.S. energy market was dealt a significant blow by Chinese tariffs because it has few other outlets as big as China for oil exports, analysts said Monday. China last week responded to U.S. trade decisions by saying it would strike back with duties on U.S. exports, including oil.
"I am against anything that would separate families, parents from their children," said Doug Gordhammer, a father who was protesting. The march, boasting hundreds of people, began outside GOP headquarters, making its way Senator Amy Klobuchar's office on Washington Avenue.
In this May 5, 2018, file photo, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Donald Trump, speaks at the Iran Freedom Convention for Human Rights and democracy in Washington. Giuliani said Sunday, June 17, 2018, that President Donald Trump might pardon former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and others ensnared in the Russia investigation once special counsel Robert Mueller's work is finished, calling it unnecessary for now as the White House seeks to push a rapid end to the year-long probe.
In this Tuesday, March 6, 2018, file photo, the sun peaks over the horizon next to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial at daybreak along the Potomac River in Washington. Washington's primary is on Tuesday, June 19. FILE - In this Tuesday, March 6, 2018, file photo, the sun peaks over the horizon next to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial at daybreak along the Potomac River in Washington.
President Donald Trump is exaggerating the achievements of his Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claiming the North has destroyed missile launch sites and no longer has "rockets flying over the place." That's a distorted picture.
Democratic lawmakers vowed Sunday to end the "evil" separation of migrant children from their parents when they are apprehended at the US border, as First Lady Melania Trump made a rare political plea to end the deeply controversial practice. The "zero-tolerance" border security policy implemented by her husband President Donald Trump's administration has sparked outrage on both sides of the political aisle and took on particular resonance as America celebrated Father's Day.
Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday the president might pardon his jailed, onetime campaign chairman and others ensnared in the Russia investigation once special counsel Robert Mueller's work wraps up, if he believed they were treated "unfairly." Until then, consideration of clemency is unnecessary, Giuliani said, as the White House presses to bring the yearlong investigation to an end.