"USA Isn't A PiggyBank For Europe": Trump Launches Section 301 Probe Into EU Over Big Tech Fines

MSFT Plans First Voluntary Buyout In 51-Year History; Gates Foundation To Slash 20% Of Staff Summary:  First CNBC reports MSFT's first-ever Voluntary Buyout in 51-Year Company History, Then a report by BBG on Meta planning 10% Workforce Cut, All Within Hours To note: Reuters First reported Meta's 10% cut late last week (report)   Meta Layoffs  First, Microsoft unveiled a voluntary buyout program, a move that could incentivize thousands of employees to leave. Now, Meta Platforms has reportedly followed with plans to cut 10% of its workforce. Taken together, today's back-to-back announcements suggest that as Big Tech continues...

Lavrov Warns Rubio: Get Diplomats & Americans Out Of Kiev Ahead Of 'Systematic Strikes' Russia has again warned Washington to evacuate embassy staff in Kiev as it prepares to launch "systematic strikes" against the Ukrainian capital, in apparent retribution for last week's deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm in Starobelsk, in Russian-controlled Luhansk Oblast. It is further and more broadly warning all foreign persons to exit the Ukrainian capital, which has already been getting pounded at various intervals, stretching back days. Russia's foreign ministry slammed the college dorm attack, which killed...

Alaska Governor Vetoes Election Reform Bill Due To 'Significant Operational Burdens' Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a major election reform bill on April 30, arguing it would place “significant operational burdens” on the state’s Division of Elections months before high-stakes statewide and federal contests. Alaska Gov. Michael Dunleavy in Washington on Oct. 29, 2019. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times The bill, at least a decade in the making, sought to allow absentee and other ​voters track their ballots and see when they had been...