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Tuesday briefing: Pope Francis allows same-sex blessings; China quake; Iceland volcano; Jonathan Majors; Google payout; and more

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On today's podcast:

(1) Jeremy Hunt will today say he's increasing the National Living Wage to at least £11 an hour amid growing party discontent over Britain's tax burden.

(2) A stop-gap spending bill passed by the US Congress over the weekend will keep the government open until the 17th of November.

(3) Household water bills in the UK are set to rise by an average of 35% by 2030 as utility firms plan to ramp up investment.

(4) The billionaire Bill Ackman is said to be interested in pursuing a deal with Elon Musk's X Corporation, as part of a new investment vehicle.

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Is Google allowed to spend billions of dollars to make its search product the default browser? That is the question at the center of U.S. et al. v. Google — the most important tech trial of the modern internet era — and Kevin and Casey disagree on the answer.

Then, a conversation with the journalist who spent the last two years shadowing Elon Musk.

Today’s guest:

• Walter Isaacson is a writer and author of the forthcoming biography “Elon Musk.”

Additional reading:

• Google’s antitrust lawsuit against the U.S. government brings the first major tech trial since U.S. v. Microsoft which began in 1998.
• “Elon Musk,” by Walter Isaacson.

Tuesday briefing: Iranian prisoner swap; new coronavirus vaccine; Google trial; Drew Barrymore’s talk show; and more

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Norway’s $1.4tn sovereign wealth fund has become the biggest shareholder in UBS, a landmark antitrust trial between Google and the US government starts today, and the FT’s Mary McDougall explains why the euro is having such a tough time. 

Mentioned in this podcast:

Norway’s $1.4tn oil fund becomes top UBS shareholder 

Google prepares for biggest US antitrust showdown since Microsoft

Euro suffers eight-week losing streak as economy falters

Will the ECB deliver one more rate rise?

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This week the Breaking Point team looks at Krystal and Kyle debating Briahna Joy Gray on the Green Party and Biden, Twitter Accused Of Aiding Saudi Human Rights Abuses, Trump Floats The Possibility Of Debating Meghan Markle, Matt Stoller ON A Potentially Historic Antitrust Shockwave, And New Push From Experts For AI Regulation Within Congress. 

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When’s the last time you used Microsoft Bing or Duck Duck Go to search the internet? Yeah, that’s no accident, say the U.S. government and several states. Next week, an antitrust case they filed against Google goes to trial. The original complaint notes Google accounted for almost 90% of all search queries in the U.S. And Googling only got us so far on this one, so Marketplace’s Lily Jamali called on Rebecca Allensworth, an antitrust lawyer and law professor at Vanderbilt.

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Molly goes solo today to cover the DOJ joining eight states to file an anti-trust lawsuit against Google (2:04) before covering Ticketmaster taking the stand in a Senate hearing today. (15:37) Producer Rachel then joins to discuss the latest on user-friendly ticket competitors. (23:07) Then, Molly is joined by two different LA26 founders: Rhian Beutler of Govalo (32:47) and Daniel Sakhai of HeyHire! (44:44)

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(2:04) the DOJ’s lawsuit with Google

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(15:37) Ticketmaster’s senate hearing

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(23:06) Rachel joins Molly to discuss the latest on user-friendly ticket competitors

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(32:47) Rhian Beutler of Govalo joins Molly

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Trevor covers electoral battles in the U.S. Senate, Michael Kosta talks to three deception artists about President Trump's constant lying, and Chris Rock talks about his role on "Fargo."

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Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have invested a significant amount of time and money trying to avoid the mistakes made during the 2016 election.

A test of those new policies came last week, when The New York Post published a story that contained supposedly incriminating documents and pictures taken from the laptop of Hunter Biden. The provenance and authenticity of that information is still in question, and Joe Biden’s campaign has rejected the assertions.

We speak to Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The Times, about how the episode reveals the tension between fighting misinformation and protecting free speech.

Guest: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily

Background reading:

• Here’s Kevin’s full report on the efforts by Twitter and Facebook to limit the spread of the Hunter Biden story.
• The New York Post published the piece despite doubts within the paper’s newsroom — some reporters withheld their bylines and questioned the credibility of the article.
• Joe Biden’s campaign has rejected the assertions made in the story.