The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to restore the policy of net neutrality, a set of rules that requires broadband internet providers to treat all internet traffic more or less equally. The move is a continuation of a battle that has raged for 20 years, with competing visions about what an open and efficient internet should look like. The vote was 3-2, with the FCC’s Democratic majority in favor and the Republican minority opposed. The vote largely restores a policy that was...
US President Joe Biden signed legislation that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok if parent company ByteDance doesn’t agree to sell its US assets over a nine-month time span.
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The US House of Representatives has once again passed a new legislation that may lead to a ban on Chinese short video making platform TikTok in the country. In March, the House voted in favor of a bill seeking to ban […]
Former President Donald Trump already understands the legal threat posed by the criminal hush money trial set to begin in Manhattan next week, said former January 6 investigator Temidayo Aganga-Williams on CNN Friday evening.The trial centers on the allegation that the former president effectively interfered in the 2016 election by using a secret hush payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal their former affair from voters. Trump's lawyers are reportedly resigned to the fact that...
US abortion battle rages on with moves to repeal Arizona ban and a Supreme Court case
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. One iteration of the issue was back before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second
By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Action in courts and state capitals around the U.S. this week have made it clear again: The overturning of Roe v. Wade and the nationwide right to abortion did not settle the issue. One iteration of the issue was back before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for the second
I quit when it sank in that pushing back at my routine embassy job felt less like resistance than complicityWhen I began working as a consular officer at the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, I was at the beginning of what was supposed to be a 20-year diplomatic career. Maybe I didn’t love all of US foreign policy, but in my routine visa assignment I was deeply committed to treating everybody I interviewed fairly and playing my part in facilitating the American immigrant dream. Then, on 27 June...
Congress will advance legislation supporting Israel following an attack by Iran over the weekend, top House leaders announced on Saturday. The House will adjust its previously determined schedule to include votes on legislation “that supports our ally Israel and holds Iran and its terrorist proxies accountable,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said in a […]
Strikes hit the city of Isfahan at 5am local time. Officials say they do not believe the city's nuclear facilities were struck. Military targets in Iraq and Syria were also reportedly destroyed simultaneously. It comes after President Biden warned Israel not to plunge the Middle East further into crisis
As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silentSome time in the pre-dawn darkness, the commotion starts. From her bed, Danae Mossman hears the noise building: loud romantic liaisons, vomiting, squeals, the sound of bodies hitting the pool at full tilt.Things get particularly loud between midnight and...
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman sat next to the former Arizona Coyotes owner in a downtown Phoenix hotel meeting room, trying to put a positive spin on the funeral for a franchise.