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  • House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina speaks during a news conference April 30, 2020, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
    House Democrats ask 5 companies to return coronavirus aid

    A Democratic-led subcommittee overseeing federal coronavirus aid is demanding that five companies return loans the panel says should have gone to smaller businesses.

    Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press and Matthew Daly, The Associated Press
    May 11
  • Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border on Nov. 16, 2018, in Laredo, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)
    Agency finds private border wall violates Rio Grande treaty

    “If the Rio Grande sees significant flooding, this wall will be uprooted, its bollards slammed into homes, businesses, and the dam downstream,” said one activist.

    Nomaan Merchant, The Associated Press
    May 7
  • Employees work during a visit by the French president to the Amazon factory in Boves, near Amiens, northern France, on Oct. 3, 2017. (Yoan Valat/AFP via Getty Images)
    Trump trade office adds Amazon to ‘notorious markets’ list

    President Donald Trump has clashed repeatedly with Amazon.

    Paul Wiseman, The Associated Press
    April 29
  • LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 06: A U.S. Postal service employee leaves the loading dock to deliver mail from the Los Feliz Post Office on February 6, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. Postal Service plans to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail by August, which could save the service $2 billion annually after losing nearly $16 billion last fiscal year. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
    Trump: Postal Service must charge Amazon more, or no loan

    “The Postal Service is a joke because they’re handing out packages for Amazon and other internet companies and every time they bring a package, they lose money on it,” President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

    Martin Crutsinger, The Associated Press and Darlene Superville, The Associated Press
    April 27
  • Last week, Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communication Commission, submitted the L-band Ligado spectrum proposal for approval. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
    Recalculating: GPS, L-band and the Pentagon’s untenable position on 5G

    Why does the Defense Department continue to blitz the executive and legislative branches with claims that an FCC order will endanger military operations and harm the economy? Is the GPS system truly that fragile?

    Daniel S. Goldin
    April 23
  • Photo credit: zhengzaishuru/Getty Images
    FCC to approve spectrum plan that Pentagon claims will harm GPS

    The Pentagon and other government agencies have fought for years to keep Ligado Networks from getting approval to use L-Band spectrum, but that fight appears to be on its last legs.

    Aaron Mehta and Mike Gruss
    April 9
  • Empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., on March 6, 2014. (Susan Montoya Bryan/AP)
    Cleanup of US nuclear waste takes back seat as virus spreads

    Over the course of 20-plus years, tons of waste have been stashed deep in the salt caverns that make up the southern New Mexico site.

    Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press
    April 3
  • The group Gun Owners of America says it is encouraged that the Trump administration is not ignoring what it calls “the ability to protect yourself” during the emergency stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Caleb Vance/Air National Guard)
    US agency includes gun sellers as ‘critical’ infrastructure

    The firearms industry was not part of the federal agency’s original list of critical infrastructure issued just over a week ago.

    The Associated Press
    March 30
  • In this Nov. 29, 2019, photo, a metal head made of motor parts symbolizes artificial intelligence, or AI, at the Essen Motor Show for tuning and motorsports in Essen, Germany. The Trump administration is proposing new rules guiding how the U.S. government regulates the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, transportation and other industries. The White House unveiled the proposals Tuesday, Jan. 7, and said they're meant to promote private sector applications of AI that are safe and fair. (Martin Meissner/AP)
    White House proposes guidelines for regulating the use of AI

    "Agencies must avoid a precautionary approach that holds AI systems to such an impossibly high standard that society cannot enjoy their benefits," the memo says.

    Matt O'Brien, The Associated Press
    January 7
  • Sources say the Trump administration is moving to vastly expand offshore drilling from the Atlantic to the Arctic oceans, including opening up federal waters off the coast of California for the first time in more than three decades. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
    Trump moves to vastly expand offshore drilling off US coasts

    The new five-year drilling plan also could open new areas of oil and gas exploration in areas off the East Coast from Georgia to Maine, where drilling has been blocked for decades. Many lawmakers in those states support offshore drilling, although the Democratic governors of North Carolina and Virginia oppose drilling off their state coasts.

    Matthew Daly, The Associated Press
    January 4, 2018
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