| Office Thermostat, Air Force, Family Bill of Rights: Broadsheet May 23
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 Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Cold offices hurt women's productivity, Kirsten Gillibrand introduces the Family Bill of Rights, and what's next for the woman who's become Enemy No. 1 of Big Tech. Have a terrific Thursday. EVERYONE'S TALKING [bs_bullet_primary] What's next for tech's nemesis. The European Parliament elections kick off today and folks in Silicon Valley--and Washington, D.C., for that matter--may be paying especially close attention to the narrative highlighted in a new Fortune piece by Geoff Smith: the contest could launch Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition and nemesis of U.S. tech giants, into the EU's top job of Commission president. U.S. President Donald Trump has characterized Vestager as "really hat[ing] the U.S." Vestager has denied being anti-American, but the reputation is based on a lengthy charge sheet: she forced [f500link]Apple[/f500link] to repay $17 billion in taxes, fined [f500link]Google[/f500link] over $9 billion for antitrust violations, required ...
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| Apple and Google's Nemesis Could Be the Next Face of Europe
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 She has forced Apple to repay $17 billion in taxes and fined Google over $9 billion for antitrust violations. And if the results at this week's elections in Europe pan out for her, the woman that Silicon Valley has learned to fear could be on course for the top job in the European Union's powerful bureaucracy. Margrethe Vestager, the 51-year-old Dane who has been European Commissioner for Competition since 2014, stands to be one of the biggest winners from this week's elections to the EU parliament, which start on Thursday and run through Sunday. That's because her caucus of centrists, known as the ALDE, is likely to emerge as kingmaker in a new parliament where--for the first time--the traditional blocs of center-right conservatives and center-left social democrats won't command a majority. As such, they won't be able to carve up the top jobs in the Commission and other EU institutions between themselves as they have in the past. Anti-American? The prospect of Vestager at the head of the European ...
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 Eric Cunningham, an eyewitness to the tornado that ravaged Jefferson City, Missouri, details how electrical power lines in the city snapped and were "tossed like toys."
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