Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has revealed legislation that would strengthen United States antitrust laws, in what the populist senator calls a return to the Republican party's history of trust-busting.
And yet, a lot of things in January 2017 were pretty similar to the way things are today:
Google and Facebookdominated the US digital ad business, with more than 50% of the market between them similar to the situation today (although Amazon has emerged a strong No. 3 player).
Jeff Bezos was the world s second richest person, just as he is today. (Instead of sitting one slot behind Bill Gates, Bezos is now one spot behind Elon Musk, the new top dog.)
Apple s plans to enter the automobile market with an electric, self-driving car was a subject of intense speculation; four years later, we still haven t seen an Apple car but reports of the iPhone-maker s car plans are once again in the air.
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at the hospital where steve scalise was taken. what information do you have for us, hans? reporter: we have nothing new on steve scalise, but i do have an update on matt mika. according to a source close to him, he took two shots to the chest, including a bullet to the lung. his condition is stable but serious. he is still on a breathing support system, a breathing support machine. doctors aren t quite certain whether or not they can go ahead and undo that, but they do say they have some confidence that this is going to be a lengthy process. again, this is the update on matt mika. he was the lobbyist from tyson food who was hit in the chest. we also have the facebook statement from another congressional staffer. he is saying basically giving the facts of what happened, saying he s okay, that he was shot this morning, but that he is fine. now, we ve seen some activity here behind me. this is a main entry here to the e.r. entry for the medevac hospital here, med star hospital