“The Daily Show” host Ronny Chieng is starting to suspect the United States may be on the wrong side of history when it comes to the tariff war between the U.S. and China. Wednesday night’s opening monologue was entirely devoted to the issue, starting with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s response to American Vice President JD Vance repeatedly calling Chinese citizens “peasants.” “Let those American peasants wail before the 5,000-year-old civilization of the Chinese nation,” Xi said. “F–k, that went so hard,” Chieng said on Wednesday night. “Oh no, are we the Drake in this beef? Are we the certified peasants?” The late night host then countered that Xi’s 5,000-year-old flex isn’t as intimidating as Xi may think it is. “Half the people here don’t even think the Earth is that old,” Chineg said. “Also, let’s just be real. There’s no way that Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have medical debt? Didn’t think so. Checkmate, China.” As the segment continued, “The Daily Show” played a news clip discussing Ch
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WASHINGTON — Internet giant Google was slapped with a loss in federal court Thursday when a judge ruled the company unfairly dominated digital marketing. The ruling gives federal prosecutors the authorization they would need to break up the company’s advertising products. The lawsuit filed by the Justice Department and 17 states accuses Google of antitrust violations through its digital ad marketing strategies. It says Google “rigged the rules of auctions” for online ads by leaving web publishers, advertisers and general consumers few other options. The department says Google packaged its technology for placing digital ads with other services to force advertisers to use more of its products. Competitors did not have the same degree of control over the online ad technology, the Justice Department argued. Google reported annual revenue of $348 billion in 2024. Roughly 80% of it came from advertising sales on its sites and affiliated network. Much of the rest comes from apps and other products it sells. The stat
Galadima, in an interview with The Guardian, was reacting to recent claims that the NNPP’s 2023 presidential candidate, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, was planning to return to the APC. Describing the speculation as false and mischievous, Galadima accused Ganduje of exploiting the names of Kwankwaso and the NNPP to stay in the media spotlight.
A coalition of concerned employees of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) have raised serious alarm over what they describe as “blatant disregard” for constitutional provisions in the 2025 staff promotion exercise at the nation’s telecoms regulator.
In a new video, CNN Reporter Elle Reeve asked voters in South Dakota if they voted for Trump and if they regretted their vote in 2024. She also pressed them on how the tariffs were affecting them and their community.
The Atlantic’s Jonathan Chait says that President Donald Trump’s refusal to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador is about much more than a wrongly deported immigrant. As he writes in his latest piece, Chait believes that the Garcia case represents a “trapdoor” that Trump is exploiting that he believes could “swallow the Constitution”…
Following reports from financial analyst Steve Rattner on Elon Musk’s Tesla stock problems and then the failure of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to make any meaningful cuts in government spending, “Morning Joe” regular Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) couldn’t let a new report about the billionaire in Wall Street Journal go unmentioned.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) appeared to grow frustrated when asked if President Donald Trump had plunged the country into a constitutional crisis. CNN’s Dana Bash said on Thursday’s Inside Politics, “The Trump administration is finding ways to defy the courts on a few fronts right now,” citing the case of a Maryland father…
Critics are attacking President Donald Trump’s director of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, after he bashed a media conglomerate on X over the news coverage by its subsidiary cable news channel.
The 245 percent tariffs President Donald Trump put on China are “unlikely to achieve his goal of returning manufacturing jobs to the United States,” wrote Dr. Moira Weigel in a New York Times guest essay Thursday.