I. Mean right now today on capitol hill 4 of the most powerful men in the u. S. Tech industry are being questioned on whether their platforms have violated antitrust laws in recent years as theyve risen to dominate the industry and the marketplace arties Rachel Blevins is monitoring this hearing she is joining us in studio to discuss it so rachel who is testifying today and what has led us up to this point well this hearing comes after a year of research that was conducted by the house judiciary is antitrust subcommittee and which they are looking at these 4 Major Tech Companies and trying to decide whether the major monopolies that they already have are being used to stifle their smaller competitors now of course we are still dealing with the coronavirus pandemics is a very unique situation in which these tests. The monies are being carried out virtually but they are being held from a lineup that includes alphabet c. E. O. Sundar Pichai Facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg apple c. E. O.
The titanic is making news once again an Expedition Team wants to retrieve the telegraph radio used right before the ship sank to the bottom of the ocean well tell you all about that all right its time to move through news i q. Fed chairman Jerome Powell is testifying before Congress Today on the health of the u. S. Economy in a current and post pandemic america hell be cruising in on the good morning news from the retail sales sector posting the best data they have seen in a while so for more analysis and discussion lets go to ben swan hes an investigative journalist and cohost of boom bust and host of news with Rick Sanchez Rick sanchez gentlemen good to see you both ben i want to go to you 1st have we finally turned a corner since the pandemic hit and also. Whats driving the market. Well we got some very good numbers as you said in terms of the numbers for may end retail kind of coming back about a 17 percent increase in retail sales that was not expected and it shows that obviously
Launch aiming to change the future of commercial space travel all right its time to boost your i. Live in 2 weeks after a botched beachfront invasion on the shores of venezuela to a u. S. Mercenaries captured by a bit of will military forces have again publicly admitted they had the backing from the u. S. Meantime on wednesday a special remote hearing a United Nations Security Council was held over accusations that the u. S. Was behind that failed coup attempt but while the u. S. Continues to deny its support of the operation it did have some choice words for russia is Rachel Blevins is joining us now to discuss the latest on this so rachel how did this hearing even come about so russia was actually become true calling for those hearing based on a letter that was submitted to the u. N. Security council by have been this way which was calling for some sort of response to this attempted to talk on their government take a listen to a portion of that letter. I quote armed groups of mercena
And the people around the world the top at home because of the coronavirus pandemic we take you to a lot of qatar where life is booming. Thank you very much for joining as hong kongs leader is trying to ease fears about beijings planned new security dolls kerry has appealed for people to wait to see the details before they launch into another round of mass protests as a proposed laws are being discussed behind closed doors in beijing lamb insists the legislation wont trample on hong kong and freedoms. We are very free society is sort of all the time being people have this freedom to say whatever they want to say but ultimately what is to be provided in this piece of legislation is for or of us to see in order to be assured that hong kongs freedoms will be preserved and hong kongs vibrancy and the core values in terms of the rule of law the independence of a traditionally the various rights and freedoms enjoyed by people will continue to be there or claudia mo is a prodemocracy member o
Following the deadliest mass shooting in that country the Prime Minister not mincing words about that move and often. Lets be honest our with the lobel fight against coated 19 today the worldwide pandemic now tops over 3500000 cases with about 249000 reported deaths now about one 3rd of those cases here in the u. S. In the nation there are now over a 1000000 a confirmed cases with about 68000 deaths so lets take a closer look here based on the data from Johns Hopkins daily confirmed cases are still up here in the u. S. Meaning the nation is still battling to flatten that curve while other countries have seemed to decrease their numbers a few cases meantime in hard hit new york Governor Andrew Cuomo. Oh says while hes aggressively thinking about opening the state it will be a very careful process artist trying to chavis has the story. Today the number of coronavirus cases in new york are declining Health Officials confirming statewide hospitalizations due to the virus are at their lowes