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On December 14 2017, the American Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality laws which were implemented in 2015.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.
Some in the U.S. solar-power industry are hoping a decision this week by President Donald Trump doesn't bring on an eclipse. Companies that install solar-power systems for homeowners and utilities are bracing for Trump's call on whether to slap tariffs on imported panels.
When Chelsea Manning announced she was running for the U.S. Senate, I knew I would be writing an article about it, even though I didn't really want to. Within minutes of her announcing her Senate run, the bad takes were flying.
The contrast couldn't have been sharper: In 2009, as Iranians took to the street, they chanted, “Obama, Obama, either you're with us or against us,” but President Barack Obama remained silent.
The FBI did not retain text messages exchanged by two senior officials involved in the probes of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for a five-month period ending the day a special counsel was appointed to investigate possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to a new congressional letter. The letter from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray indicates the Justice Department has turned over to lawmakers a new batch of texts from senior FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
Thanks to the locavore movement, we're used to food with origin stories: that venison tartare once ran free in a forest in Katonah. But what about the farmers? They started out somewhere, too.
One afternoon at the Explorers Club, in Manhattan, Geoffrey Gray was in the fifth-floor gallery looking at a painting of a man with a beard. Sixty-odd years ago, the bearded man was a correspondent for a publication called "They called him the Vagrant Viking," Gray said of the man in the painting.
The distinguished British director, who is adapting the animated musical for Broadway, sees big questions in the Disney fairy tale. The first time that Michael Grandage, the distinguished British theatre director, saw "Frozen," the wildly lucrative animated Disney movie, was upon its release, in 2013.
When the first nuclear-alert alarm sounded, at approximately two-thirty in the afternoon, the President flipped the switch that locks the doors to the Oval Office with tamper-proof dead bolts and then dove under his desk. His cell phone skittered across the floor during the dive; he was carrying only the cheeseburger he'd been eating.
With ready-made materials and artifacts, Danh Vo's art recasts the historical events and political ideas that have shaped his world. Vo in his home in Mexico City.
I don't often cotton to museum shows that are educational in character-when I want instruction, I'll read something-but I love, and I wish everyone would see, "Americans," at the National Museum of the American Indian, in Washington, D.C. It is keyed to the ubiquity of Native Americans in popular culture. Spectacularly installed, in a grand hall, are hundreds of Indian-themed artifacts, from movie posters, toys, and commercial and sports-team logos to weaponry .
The U.S. Capitol stands past a temporary shutdown sign outside the Library of Congress in Washington on Jan. 21, 2018. The U.S. Capitol stands past a temporary shutdown sign outside the Library of Congress in Washington on Jan. 21, 2018.
"As a courtesy for the inconvenience, please accept a voucher for three additional hours of your life, redeemable upon your death." "As a courtesy for the inconvenience, please accept a voucher for three additional hours of your life, redeemable upon your death."
By ALAN FRAM, ANDREW TAYLOR and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON - The government shutdown is set to sow more disruption and political peril Monday after the Senate inched closer but ultimately fell short of an agreement that would have reopened federal agencies before the beginning of the workweek. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said negotiations kept going late into the night, with a vote to break a Democratic filibuster on a short-term funding bill scheduled for noon Monday.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., center, joined from left by, Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., hold a news conference on the first morning of a government shutdown after a divided Senate rejected a funding measure last night, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. WASHINGTON - The government shutdown is set to sow more disruption and political peril Monday after the Senate inched closer but ultimately fell short of an agreement that would have reopened federal agencies before the beginning of the workweek.
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will wake up on Monday with the U.S. government still shut down and the Senate expected to try again to restore federal funding, if only temporarily, and work on resolving a dispute over immigration. Amid uncertainty about whether federal employees should report to work in the morning, senators were set to vote at midday on a funding bill to get the lights back on in Washington and across the government until early February.
Officials with Maine's largest city say Portland International Jetport is the first airport in the country to use 100 percent recycled de-icing fluid for aircraft. Airport Director Paul Bradbury says the facility has spent six years capturing aircraft de-icing fluid sprayed at the airport to make sure it doesn't mix with storm water.
Kansas legislative leaders denounced the practice of municipal government and school board members resigning from office fully aware their peers would quickly reappoint them to a different vacancy on the governing body to artificially extend their terms. Bipartisan distaste for the insider deals exists among members of the 2018 Legislature, but no consensus emerged in interviews with top Republicans and Democrats about viability of a bill to forbid or limit the maneuver.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., heads to the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as Day 2 of the federal shutdown drags on, at the Capitol in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill said they were pursuing a deal to end the rare government closure, prompted Friday by a messy tussle over immigration and spending.