Gaetz announced he was withdrawing from consideration for Attorney General on Thursday — shortly after being asked to comment on the House Ethics Committee’s report into alleged sexual misconduct with underage girls.
Per CNN, the a woman said she had two sexual encounters with Gaetz in 2017, when she was 17 years old. A hacker reportedly gained access to a file with “damaging” details about Gaetz, including the woman’s testimony.
Sources tell Reuters that EU regulators will likely look into whether Amazon is favors its own products on its retail platform — a violation of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.
In March, the European Commission confirmed that it was looking into Amazon’s ranking practices. At the time, an Amazon spokesperson said the company’s practices were compliant with the DMA.
Well, four people close to Trump say he’s going to try and stop it from happening, reports the Washington Post. It’s unclear what, exactly, that means. TikTok faces a ban unless its parent company, ByteDance, sells it by January 19th — the day before Trump’s inauguration.
Maybe Trump, who was courted by tech leaders in the months leading up to the election, will convince one of his new friends to buy it.
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The president-elect announced that Tom Homan — one of the architects of Trump’s family separation policy — will play a major role in his administration.
In 2022, Homan spoke at a conference organized by white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Starting next year, he’ll “be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
