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Hearings begin as Trump critics attempt to kick him off ballots
Lawsuits in Colorado and Minnesota center on the 14th Amendment, which bars those who engage in an insurrection from running for office.
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Lawmakers grill Social Security leader over disability system’s failures
A bipartisan panel of lawmakers demanded answers from Social Security for why the agency continues to face major backlogs and service failures.
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Is the Republican Speakership Cursed? Johnson Is About to Find Out.
Kevin McCarthy was just the latest in a series of Republican speakers and speaker wannabes who faced revolts. Speaker Mike Johnson should take note.
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Democrats Splinter Over Israel as the Young, Diverse Left Rages at Biden
As a raw divide over the war ripples through liberal America, a coalition of young voters and people of color is breaking with the president, raising new questions about his strength entering 2024.
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Cornel West’s Improvisational Run for President: ‘It’s Jazz All the Way Down’
Is the celebrity professor’s candidacy a wild variable in the 2024 presidential campaign or performance art? Yes, he says.
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FCC Proposes To Reinstate Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission recently adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to reestablish its authority over broadband internet access service (BIAS) by reinstating its net neutrality rules. The NPRM largely follows the framework set out in an order adopted by the FCC in 2015 during the Obama administration (the 2015 Order), which was repealed……By:…
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FCC Seeks Comment Regarding Role of Broadband Connectivity for Improving Maternal Health
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched a comprehensive inquiry designed to explore ways the Commission’s Mapping Broadband Health in America platform could be expanded and enhanced to help better leverage digital health tools to improve maternal care….By: ArentFox Schiff
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Litigation Preparedness Following a Data Breach: Three Tips to Consider During the Incident Response Period
Data breaches come in many different forms, sizes, and levels of complexity, but they tend to share certain key facts: A third-party bad actor—whether through a phishing attack, a ransomware attack, exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability, or other means—gains access to a company’s information technology systems. Following execution of the company’s incident response plan, forensic…
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CIA’’s AI Chatbot
The CIA is set to introduce an AI chatbot, trained on publicly available data, to enhance intelligence operations. This tool will enable agents to access, verify, and summarize vast amounts of information efficiently. However, concerns about privacy and data sourcing remain, raising important questions about oversight and ethical AI use in the intelligence community….By: The…
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Federal Legislation Seeks To Change Online Child Safety Reporting Obligations and Impose Content Safety Obligations
A significant number of federal legislative proposals that focus on online child safety have been introduced. If enacted, they would modify online providers’ obligations to remove and report child sexual exploitation (CSE) content (including child sexual abuse material (CSAM)), as well as require providers to implement notice and takedown mechanisms for certain CSE content. Failure…