The United States Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, the world’s most popular online search engine. The suit is the largest of its kind in decades and is based on a premise that the company has been, as per the text of the suit, “unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising in the United States through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices.” In explaining the significance of the lawsuit the New York Times said, “A victory for the government could remake one of America’s most recognizable companies and the internet economy that it has helped define.” However because President Donald Trump’s administration has routinely attacked Google and other tech companies claiming that they unfairly promote bias against misinformation-laden conservative websites, the anti-trust lawsuit is likely to suffer from accusations of being politically motivated. 

In other news, the final debate between the two major party Presidential candidates will take place Thursday evening in Nashville, Tennessee to be moderated by NBC News’ Kristen Welker. The debate would have been the third between Trump and his rival Joe Biden but ended up as the second after last week’s event was canceled. Now, based on Trump’s repeated rule-breaking in the first debate, the Commission on Presidential Debates has decided to adjust the rules so that each candidate’s microphone will be muted during the 2-minute period that their rival is asked to answer a question. The Commission released a statement saying, “It is the hope of the Commission that the candidates will be respectful of each other’s time, which will advance civil discourse for the benefit of the viewing public.” Trump’s campaign has now demanded a last-minute change to the topics laid out beforehand, saying the President wants to center the entire debate on foreign policy. 

Leading up to the debate Trump has been lying to the public at a rate that is off the charts. According to CNN, “For fact checkers, the period from Friday through Sunday was one of the most challenging of Trump’s entire presidency: he made at least 66 separate false or misleading claims over that three-day span. In other words, it was 66 false or misleading claims without even counting all the times he repeated some of those same 66 claims over the course of the three days.” Voters appear to not be buying it as the latest New York Times/Siena College poll shows Biden garnering more support than Trump on all major issues including the coronavirus pandemic. In the swing states of North Carolina Trump and Biden are neck-in-neck and in Pennsylvania Trump appears to have narrowed Biden’s lead.

Biden also continues to garner high-profile endorsements such as that of William McRaven, a retired Navy admiral who was commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command from 201 1 to 2014 and led the raid that killed ...