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Pump jacks are seen at dawn in an oil field over the Monterey Shale formation in California, where hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is being used for gas and oil extraction. The Trump administration is aggressively sweeping aside regulations protecting public land to clear a path for expanded oil and gas drilling.
The Trump administration said on Monday it would not immediately impose additional sanctions on Russia under a new law designed to punish Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, insisting the measure was already hitting Russian companies. "Today, we have informed Congress that this legislation and its implementation are deterring Russian defense sales," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
But the fact that somebody in the president's National Security Council was at least thinking about it shows how seriously the administration is taking America's technological competition with China, and the immense potential of next-generation wireless technology. The teacup-sized tempest began Sunday night, when the online news service Axios published a startling report based on an NSC memo and PowerPoint presentation.
In this Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, file photo, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai answers a question from a reporter after a meeting where commissioners voted to end net neutrality, in Washington. Telecom regulators and industry groups voiced opposition Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, to a government-built wireless network that the Trump administration is reportedly considering.
AG BROADBAND COALITION HAILS PRECISION AGRICULTURE CONNECTIVITY ACT Jan. 26, 2018 Source: Agricultural Broadband Coalition news release The Agricultural Broadband Coalition applauded bipartisan leaders in the House and Senate for introducing the Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018 on Thursday, a milestone piece of legislation that will help to revolutionize farming across the United States.
On December 14 2017, the American Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality laws which were implemented in 2015. Opponents to the outcome of the vote have since prepared legal arguments to counter this decision.
Twitter found more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts that actively shared election-related material - and Trump interacted with them hundreds of times Twitter says it found more Russia-linked accounts that shared US election-related material during the 2016 race for the White House. In addition to other findings, Twitter said it discovered 13,512 accounts engaged in what it believed to be "automated, election-related activity originating out of Russia," bringing the total number of such accounts to 50,258.
Twitter's internal review of the activity on its platform during the 2016 US presidential election led to the identification and suspension of accounts that were "potentially connected to a propaganda effort by a Russian government-linked organization," according to a blog post from the company. Twitter identified an organization it said took park in propaganda efforts; the Internet Research Agency - also referred to as Russia's "troll army."
A U.S. Senate panel plans to hold a Jan. 25 hearing on the errant Hawaii ballistic missile alert that stirred panic and anger as the Federal Communications Commission investigates the matter. The Senate Commerce Committee is expected to announce later Thursday it will hold a hearing next week on the false alert and why it went uncorrected for 38 minutes, officials said.
A billion-dollar emergency loan approved by Congress to help Puerto Rico deal with the effects of Hurricane Maria has been temporarily withheld by federal officials who say the U.S. territory is not facing a cash shortage like it has repeatedly warned about in recent months. Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Treasury Department said in a letter to the director of the island's fiscal agency that Puerto Rico has had a central cash balance exceeding $1.5 billion in the nearly four months since the Category 4 storm.
A group of 22 Democratic state attorneys general, including those from California and New York, have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of tough net neutrality rules for online traffic.
The threat of a North Korean missile hitting hitting Hawaii is dangerously real, as President Donald Trump 's "button" tweets stoke dangerous tensions between the United States and the North Korean dictatorship. The threat felt very real on Saturday morning in Hawaii after an emergency alert was sent out to TV, radio, and cell phones about an inbound ballistic missile.
A Democratic commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission responded to a report that the agency's Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, was being subject to not only racists comments but also deaths threats which prompted him to cancel an appearance at a recent event. The question was: "What do you think about the horrifically racist things people have said about Ajit Pai, as well as the numerous death threats and threats made to his family? Merits of Net Neutrality notwithstanding, do you think his treatment should be given more attention?" Earlier this month, a report from Recode stated that Pai canceled a speaking engagement at a major technology industry event days before it was scheduled to place because of death threats.
"Angel Moms" Agnes Gibboney and AVIAC Director Mary Ann Mendoza discuss what they want to see from President Trump's immigration plan. Two "Angel Moms," whose sons were killed by illegal immigrants, are urging the Trump administration to immediately end sanctuary cities before any action is taken to protect The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
When the Trump administration announced last fall it would phase out a program that provides deportation relief to thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children, Los Angeles teacher Miriam Gonzalez Avila didn't want her students to think she could be defeated so easily - so she sued. "I knew signing up as a plaintiff for a lawsuit was going to be a big deal, and I think ultimately the reason I did it was for my students," said Avila, a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at Crown Preparatory Academy who also is a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient.
President Trump might have just created a clear path for an infrastructure deal with Democrats in 2018, says a former Clinton administration official. Trump surprised Republican leaders over the weekend when he told them he didn't think public-private partnerships are going to work to rebuild America's aging roads, bridges and other infrastructure.
Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" sold more than 29,000 hardcover copies in its first week of publication, NPD BookScan told The Associated Press. That number, announced Wednesday and the highest overall for books last week, is likely to grow far higher in future reports.
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano on fallout from AG Jeff Sessions rescinding policy that paved the way for legalized pot. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to change Obama-era federal policy on legal marijuana has produced the need for new legislation in Congress, according to Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano.
If one was expecting to have a reasoned, adult debate over "Net Neutrality" in the lead-up to the Federal Communications Commission's vote last week to roll-back the Obama-era regulations, they were surely disappointed.
Out of every 1,000 Americans who die, only two pay the federal estate tax, which brought in $18 billion, or less than 1 percent of U.S. tax revenue, in 2016. It's remarkable, then, that such a minor tax has become a major partisan battleground.