SHOCKER: 150k INVALID votes in WI;House Speaker Election Update;What we must know of latest variant

After Kevin McCarthy failed to secure a majority on Tuesday and Wednesday, President Trump has indicated that he is backing him. Despite the full support of Trump, Kevin McCarthy still did not receive enough votes to become Speaker of the House of Representatives after new rounds of voting. A Wisconsin-based watchdog group, that focuses on election integrity, discovered that more than 150,000 votes, cast in the 2020 presidential election, cannot be traced to valid addresses. Meta and other big tech companies are under pressure from EU privacy rules, which are among the most stringent in the world. The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter - reported that Amazon's layoffs so far will affect more than 17,000 employees, which is more than the number of layoffs originally planned. Shares of Tesla and Apple plunged on Tuesday, as the companies faced significant resistance in China. This added to investor-jitters.