Top eight stories for today including a coalition of 48 attorneys general hit Facebook with a massive antitrust suit; French media company Canal+ prevailed over European Union competition regulators in its challenge to a settlement that prevents companies from blocking content based on location; President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter said his taxes are under investigation by federal prosecutors, and more.
In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
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Top eight stories for today including a coalition of 48 attorneys general hit Facebook with a massive antitrust suit; French media company Canal+ prevailed over European Union competition regulators in its challenge to a settlement that prevents companies from blocking content based on location; President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter said his taxes are under investigation by federal prosecutors, and more.
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1.) A coalition of 48 attorneys general hit Facebook with a massive antitrust suit Wednesday over the Silicon Valley giant’s acquisitions of online messaging competitors Instagram and WhatsApp.
In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
2.) No longer counting tangential benefits in cost-benefits analyses for pollution controls, the Environmental Protection Agency adopted a rule change Wednesday expected to impede clean-air efforts.
This aerial photo shows the Standard Oil Refinery in El Segundo, Calif., on May 25, 2017, with Los Angeles International Airport in the background and the El Porto neighborhood of Manhattan Beach, Calif., in the foreground. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced on Dec. 7, 2017, that California is among 14 states and the District of Columbia that are suing the Trump administration over what they say a failure to enforce smog standards. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
3.) President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter said Wednesday his taxes are under investigation by federal prosecutors in Delaware, but details of the probe were not made available.
Hunter Biden attends an event featuring his father, Vice President Joe Biden, in Danville, Kentucky in 2014. (AP file photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
4.) In many ways echoing last year’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau challenge, shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took on the authority of the federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Wednesday in a Supreme Court battle implicating billions of dollars.
FILE - This Monday, Aug. 8, 2011, file photo shows the Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington. The Trump administration has unveiled its plan for ending government control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, those are the two giant mortgage finance companies that nearly collapsed in the financial crisis 11 years ago and were bailed out by taxpayers at a total cost of $187 billion, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
5.) Departing a tradition of selecting civilians to lead the Defense Department, President-elect Joe Biden asked Congress for a waiver Wednesday afternoon that would give the job to General Lloyd Austin III.
This screenshot of a livestreamed video shows General Lloyd Austin taking the podium after President-elect Joe Biden announced him as his pick for secretary of defense on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. (Image via Courthouse News)
Regional
6.) As New York City becomes the most populous jurisdiction to embrace an instant-runoff election system, multinational communities who represent the city’s lifeblood worry about being left behind.
A voter drops his absentee ballot into a box at a special table set aside for that purpose on the last day of early voting, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020, at Columbia University's Forum in the West Harlem neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
7.) Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesday he is running for another term next year, joining a rapidly growing Democratic primary field.
FILE - In this March 1, 2020, file photo, former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe walks up to the stage as he prepares to introduce Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign rally in Norfolk, Va. McAuliffe is trying to get his old job back and is set to announce a formal bid for governor Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Richmond, according to a McAuliffe aide who was not authorized to speak publicly about the campaign. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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