GOOGLE’s Top Search Result?

In Google’s early years, users would type in a query and get back a page of 10 “blue links” that led to different websites. “We want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible,” co-founder Larry Page said in 2004. Today, Google often considers that “right place” to be Google, an investigation by The Markup has found. We examined more than 15,000 recent popular queries and found that Google devoted 41 percent of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties…

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Criminals in Occupied Paris

The hours of the Vichy regime forever sully French history and insult the French past and traditions. President Jacque Chirac on July 17, 1995 confessed that the criminal folly of the Nazi occupiers was seconded by the French state. In his new book, The King of Nazi Paris, Christopher Othen recounts the sordid Gothic horror story of a group of malefactors, a gang of criminals, crooks, pimps, corrupt and disgraced police, mafiosi, fallen celebrities, fake aristocrats, pimps, gold traffickers, even a former captain of the French national football team, who worked for…

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Horowitz: Comparing Europe to the US, the evidence is clear: Lockdowns don’t work

Here’s the good news for opponents of lockdowns and mask mandates: They don’t work. However, that is also the bad news. Because they don’t work, politicians who have seized power by executive fiat for months on end can continue promulgating even more life-altering rules, precisely because the original ones never worked! Americans are now facing this predicament: The more the effectiveness of these executive policies is disproven, the more the politicians use that lack of results as a pretext for even more rules. Thus, if stay-at-home orders failed to work…

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Kim Kardashian defends Kanye West amid bipolar disorder Twitter rants

Kim Kardashian has broken her silence on Kanye West’s ongoing bipolar disorder episode. On her Instagram Story, Kardashian, 39, shared she felt the need to comment on her husband’s health because of “the stigma and misconceptions about mental health” as he goes on Twitter tirades about his family, divorce and her friendship with Meek Mill. “As many of you know, Kanye has bi-polar disorder. Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand,” she wrote. “I’ve never spoken publicly…

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Bahamas puts Grand Bahama under lockdown a day before U.S. travel ban takes effect

With a surge in COVID-19 cases being traced back to Bahamians traveling from the United States, the Bahamas has announced a two-week lockdown of the island of Grand Bahama, which is leading a wave of new infections after being coronavirus free for months. Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis, speaking before a cabinet meeting Tuesday, said the lockdown will take effect at 7 p.m. Thursday and run until 5 a.m. August 7. He added that effective 6 p.m. Tuesday, all domestic flights in and out of Grand Bahama will cease. The…

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Mark Cuban and Herschel Walker Have Heated Debate Over Black Lives Matter on Field

“Well, you know, one of the problems that I think we have is a lot of these sensitive topics we do not want to address but we do not want to address these sensitive topics so what we try to do is water them down and shout people down,” he said, per Fox News. Walker, who just so happens to be a supporter of President Trump, challenged the decision of the NBA and NFL to put the phrase “Black Lives Matter” on their fields, courts and sports jersey and made a…

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Off-duty Florida police officer pulls boy away from passing shark

An off-duty police officer in Florida jumped into the ocean to pull a boogie-boarding boy to safety after a shark was spotted swimming toward the child in a heart-pounding video. Cocoa Beach Police Officer Adrian Kosicki was walking along the beach with his wife on Thursday when they noticed a shark approaching the boy in the shallows just offshore, police wrote on Facebook. SHARK ‘GRABBED’ 10-YEAR-OLD BOY FROM BOAT IN TASMANIA: REPORT Police shared a bystander’s video showing a shark fin cutting through the water’s surface as it swims toward the boy. “Hey buddy! Hey, there’s a…

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Tiger Woods’ round surrounded by silence an eerie feeling

Picture yourself watching Michael Jordan from Row 1 courtside with no fans in the building, just you sitting virtually alone with an unobstructed view of the greatest basketball player of all time. Now picture sitting on the glass to witness Wayne Gretzky play, no one sitting in front of or around you as the greatest hockey player of all time performs his magic on ice. Sitting in the dugout and watching Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron hit home runs. Standing on the sideline watching Tom Brady or Joe Montana engineer…

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As Australian COVID-19 cases surge, state bans “dancing, mingling” at weddings

Australia’s Victoria state on Friday reported a record daily increase in COVID-19 cases while neighbouring New South Wales said it was banning dancing, singing and mingling at weddings as authorities struggle to contain a new wave of infections. Victoria, which has forced nearly 5 million people in the country’s second most populous state into a partial lockdown for more than a week, said it has found 428 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, most from community transmission. Such is the size of the Victoria outbreak, Australia on Friday…

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Has the Federal Government Done Enough to Strengthen National Cybersecurity?

When it comes to homeland defense, most people immediately think about the military. But what if the biggest threat to this nation’s safety and well-being has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or foreign militias? What if the biggest threat is invisible? The State of Federal Cyber Security The United States of America has been and continues to be a shining beacon of freedom throughout the world. Despite the whiny voices of millions of young people and radical left-wing activists who lack historical context to understand the incredible…

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