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The new FCC rules that loosen regulations on internet service providers and threaten net neutrality went into effect Thursday. Opponents of the change now have 60-days to fight the change.
Several U.S. companies are re-evaluating their relationship with the National Rifle Association following the school shooting last week in Florida.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg and U.S. President Donald Trump met earlier this week to work out the final contract for a new Air Force One fleet. An announcement is expected soon.
U.S.-based security researchers are keeping a close watch on eight foreign nation-state-supported hacking groups suspected of having plans to interfere with the November elections.
The U.S. opioid crisis has cost $1 trillion in lost wages, productivity, and other expenditures since 2001. The cost is going to rise rapidly and it's doubtful that planned spending to battle the...
The U.S. Department of Energy is reportedly considering a maneuver to save some coal-fired power plants threatened with closures.
The federal budget deal struck Wednesday includes the sale of 100 million barrels of the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The sales won't begin until 2022.
White Americans are dying at higher rates from drug overdoses, alcohol, and suicide than citizens of other developed countries and than Americans of other racial/ethnic origins.
President Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union speech drew nearly 46 million viewers on broadcast and cable networks.
As the administration and lawmakers play a game of chicken over the federal budget and how it should be funded, the Congressional Budget Office reports that the United States could run out of money...
In what can only be described as a stunning, last-minute reversal, the U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday voted that Boeing was not harmed when it lost a sale to Delta and that no duties...
Major telecom firms and industry associations spent nearly $20 million lobbying the federal government in the fourth quarter of 2017. At least some of those funds were successfully directed at...
The U.S. president's decision to slap a tariff on imported solar modules is expected to lead to a decline in new solar projects. But it could have been much worse.
Fuel costs for all-electric cars are lower than the costs for gas-powered vehicles in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Will this be enough to get U.S. drivers out of their pickups and SUVs?
Without a last-minute agreement, the federal government will shut down at midnight Friday. Here's what that means in terms of government services.