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Hurricane Florence is expected to being heavy rain and strong winds to the coasts of North and South Carolina as early as Thursday, the National Hurricane Center is forecasting . Experts predict that the storm could bring rainfall up to 40 inches and up to 13 feet of floodwater in some areas.
The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be testing the Emergency Alert System later this month. The test alert will go to all Emergency Alert System participants, Participating Mobile Service providers, and to the public on September 20 at 2:18 PM EDT.
In this June 1, 2018, file photo, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson speaks after being sworn in as the state's 57th governor following the resignation of Eric Greitens in Jefferson City, Mo. Missouri lawmakers will return to the state Capitol on Monday, Sept.
A coalition of trade groups representing companies including Alphabet Inc, Facebook Inc and Amazon.com Inc, urged a U.S. appeals court to reinstate landmark "net neutrality" rules adopted in 2015 to guarantee an open internet. In a legal filing Monday, the Internet Association, Entertainment Software Association, Computer & Communications Industry Association, and Writers Guild of America West urged the reversal of the Trump administration decision to overturn the rules in December.
In the lively style typical of his campaign, President Donald Trump held a rally with a cheering crowd of supporters in Lewis Center, Ohio on Saturday night. President Donald Trump is traveling Saturday to Ohio to hold a rally for state Sen. Troy Balderson, who is running in Tuesday's special election for an open congressional seat against Democrat Danny O'Connor.
SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE: The House has passed the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act , sponsored by Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, to require the Federal Communications Commission to study the possibility of creating a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system with an easy to remember phone number. Stewart said the bill was intended to "streamline and to provide easy access to potentially lifesaving resources by designating a new and very simple national three-digit dialing number, very similar to 911, for national suicide prevention and mental health crisis."
Iowa Rep. Dave Loebsack successfully moved legislation through the U.S. House of Representatives this week to help farmers access "cutting-edge" broadband technology. Loebsack, representing the 2nd Congressional District, which includes southeast Iowa, wrote the Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act with Republican Rep. Bob Latta of Ohio.
President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington. SALT LAKE CITY - A recent decision by the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission will likely scrub the deal that would have led to Salt Lake City's Fox 13 being acquired by 21st Century Fox.
A U.S. appeals court rejected on technical grounds a challenge to Federal Communications Commission ownership rules that could ease the path for Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed purchase of Tribune Media - if the deal goes forward. The Washington-based court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from opponents without considering its merits, ruling the activist groups that filed it hadn't shown they would be injured by the consolidation at the heart of their case.
President Donald Trump came to the defense of Sinclair Broadcast Group's proposed merger with Tribune Media, days after the Federal Communications Commission raised "serious concerns" about the deal and began legal proceedings to challenge it on grounds the companies had misled regulators. In a tweet, Trump said Tuesday it was "so sad and unfair" that the FCC, an independent agency, did not approve the merger, a $3.9 billion transaction that would create a conservative television giant that originally hoped to reach roughly 70 percent of U.S. households.
It was so persuasive that legislation - the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act - was passed in 2011 to address it. Congressman Thomas Massie , an award-winning inventor and successful entrepreneur, began his term the year after Congress passed the AIA.
President Donald Trump ignited a firestorm on Capitol Hill following his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. While that's not rare, this time the political salvos came from both sides of the aisle after Trump stopped far short of condemning Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election and appeared to take Putin's denial at face value.
FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 23, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts Pai, a Republican, said evidence presented to the agency as part of the approval process suggested divestiture of certain television stations "would allow Sinclair to control those stations in practice, even if not in name, in violation of the law."
The race among startups to create the first meat without slaughter needs a referee - and right now, there's a battle raging over who it will be. Witchsy co-founders created a fake male co-founder after experiencing sexism while getting their start-up off the ground.
There are few things more thrilling than seeing an old car on the road and wondering, "Wow! Whatever happened to that one?" In fact, it's the thrill of finding such a car, which we thought had been dead and buried, out on the street again that is the main factor for our excitement. We know all cars, and their brands, have a lifespan.
Orolia's McMurdo SmartFind G8 AIS Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon has been approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada . The world's first EPIRB to contain both the international 406 MHz alert frequency and the localized rescue power of the Automatic Identification System , the McMurdo SmartFind G8 AIS is now ready to order for leisure and commercial maritime use across the U.S. and Canada, following the earlier approval of the SmartFind G8 product family portfolio in Europe.
The major U.S. indices came down from their session highs but closed Tuesday's session in the green across the board, pushing the across the board winning streak to four days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.57%, or 142 points to 24,919, while the Nasdaq climbed 0.04%, or 3 points to 7,759 after spending some time in the red Tuesday afternoon, and the S&P 500 gained 0.35%, or 10 points to 2,794.
President Trump wished America a happy Fourth of July holiday Wednesday and reserved special praise for the "American heroes" whose sacrifice he said helped the nation win her independence 242 years ago. Trump tweeted a short video that included well wishes from him and first lady Melania Trump.
New York, July 1 - A person has been arrested and charged with threatening to kill the children of Ajit Pai, the head of the United States Federal Communications Commission , according to a court document. The person identified as Markara Man made the threat in emails sent to Pai, one of the senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration, because he was angry that the FCC had repealed net neutrality, the affidavit filed in connection with the case by a law enforcement in a Virginia court said.