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Under its Trump-annointed chairman, Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission decided last Thursday to revisit its net neutrality ruling. The agency has reopened a docket for public comments on Pai's proposal to undermine the safeguards needed to protect people from having their internet service providers block, throttle or de-prioritize the online content they want to see.
Ambassador Sergei Kislyak reported to his superiors in Moscow that Kushner, then President-elect Trump's son-in-law and confidant, made the proposal during a meeting on Dec. 1 or 2 at Trump Tower, according to intercepts of Russian communications that were reviewed by U.S. officials. Kislyak said Kushner suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities in the United States for the communications.
The Times of Israel: Users of websites associated with the "alt-right" are cheering a Republican congressional candidate from Montana for allegedly body slamming Jewish reporter Ben Jacobs. ... A user on the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer posted an article by The Guardian, a London-based daily, about the incident with the title "Montana Republican Stands up to the Jewish Media."
Montana GOP candidate Greg Gianforte won a congressional seat last night despite assaulting a reporter the day before. But that shouldn't surprise youa S-a SGianforte's act of violence was arguably an extension of Donald Trump's anti-media rhetoric .
Agency officials told ABC the attempted hacking prompted a meeting with the FBI, CIA, and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who run the president's billion-dollar real estate and licensing business with sister Ivanka Trump. Eric vehemently denied any hack occurred, insisting that any attempted cyberattack on the president's lucrative business was an impossibility.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Budget director Mick Mulvaney speaks to the media about President Trump's proposed fiscal 2018 budget at the White House on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. The Trump administration is calling its fiscal 2018 budget proposal the " Taxpayer First " plan - meaning that its priority is to take care of those who pay their taxes.
MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract... An article in this morning's Columbus Dispatch indicates that 2014 legislation, sponsored by Republicans Bill Seitz and Keith Faber, is holding up more than $2 Billion in investment in Ohio on clean wind power. Overly restrictive rules on wind-turbine placement have put billions of dollars of investment on hold, say government leaders from northwestern Ohio, who want to see the rules changed.
A week after publishing a problematic account about the death of former Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich -- an article that said Rich made contact with WikiLeaks before he was shot and killed in Washington -- Fox News retracted the story, saying it did not meet the organization's editorial standards. "The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting," Fox said in a brief statement posted on its website Tuesday.
Spanish mountaineer Kilian Jornet has set a record for the fastest ascent of Mount Everest without fixed ropes or supplementary oxygen, climbing the world's highest peak in just 26 hours, his team said Tuesday. Jornet scaled Everest's north face, starting from the base camp on the Tibet side of the mountain, and reached the summit alone early Monday.
Global Seed Vault flooded by melting perma-frost; Antarctica going green ; Swiss vote to accelerate renewables; PLUS : Trump's budget slashes, burns environment... Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton; Also: Two big election-related SCOTUS decisions, & this week's US House Special Election in MT... The VP claims he was kept in the dark by Team Trump on key issues regarding disgraced former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. But is his alibi even plausible?... Looks like it's double, double toil and trouble for Trump once again this week in PDiddie's collection of the week's best political toons... Guest: Former Asst.
So Director of National Intelligence and former Republican Senator Dan Coats would say out loud and on camera what Trump said to him about the investigation. His overly hesitant answer to the Senate Intelligence Committee starts at the :47 mark.
Frustrated by non-experts taking to the internet to dispute the science behind human-made climate change, North Carolina meteorologist Greg Fishel issued a challenge to climate deniers, urging them to "put up or shut up" and "submit your work the way real scientists do, and see where it takes you." The News & Observer highlighted Fishel's challenge, which he posted on Facebook, in a May 22 article , reporting that Fishel "went off on people who question the science behind climate change."
Each year, the U.S. Department of Justice receives more than 10,000 complaints of criminal interference with civil rights. Rather than ensuring that fundamental fairness, equal opportunity, and equal justice are preserved-the basic rights of all Americans-President Donald Trump's budget would eliminate at least 460 federal personnel dedicated to protecting the rights of Americans.
Former CIA Director John Brennan testified on Tuesday that intelligence officials had found "contacts and interaction" between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and agents for the Russian government. "I'm aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about because of known Russian efforts on such individuals," Brennan told members of the House Intelligence Committee.
As evidence that Donald Trump has been trying to obstruct investigations into his involvement in Russian attacks against the United States in 2016 continues to grow, the Russian government is spreading a conspiracy theory designed to perpetuate Trump supporters' faith in their stumbling leader. A couple of days ago, the Russian Embassy in London spread a message on Twitter showing a blood-red image of Hillary Clinton's face in the background of a picture of Seth Rich, with the question, "Who killed Seth Rich?" Accompanying this image was this message from the Russian government: "Seth Rich murdered in the U.S., but MSM was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take notice."
Several people have been killed following an explosion at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in England this evening. Concertgoers fled the stadium after hearing the noises, which Twitter users have described as sounding like gunshots.
He claims to be accepting an appointment from the Department of Homeland Security, but people are dying of dehydration in his jail and it's now come out that he plagiarized his doctoral thesis. And Rush Limbaugh wannabe now skip-to-the-MSNBC-chair Charlie Sykes lists off all the reasons Clarke shouldn't be anywhere but a 30 member 4-Chan channel of conspiracy whackjobs, but says this plagiarism thing "might be" what makes the Trump administration think twice? List of Trump associates/officials accused of plagiarism: Melania Betsy DeVos Neil Gorsuch Monica Crowley Donald J. Trump Jr David Clarke https://t.co/b9heFrjcGw Donald Trump is running a Celebrity Apprentice White House starring people he watches on Fox News.
A Black Lives Matter member speaks during a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation on November 12, 2016. The day before the People's Climate March in Washington, DC, Preyton Lambert-skinny, dreadlocked and sporting black-frame glasses-was getting hustled on a boulevard near the National Mall.