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Fortune
April 30, 2018
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven wonders of the natural world, and the only living thing that's visible from space. Unfortunately, it's also being hugely damaged by climate change. To counteract this, the Australian government has announced its largest-ever investment in the coral reef: overÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
April 30, 2018
"Enemy missiles" hit several military outposts in northern Syria, state media reported early on Monday without identifying who had launched the attack. SANA, Syria's state-run news agency, quoted an unnamed military source in reporting the missile attack against bases in Hama and Aleppo provinces late on SundayÃâà...
Governing
April 30, 2018
Since its inception, USAFacts has committed to compiling data from all levels of U.S. government because, Ballmer says, that's the only way to tell the full story of public ... “The way that state and local governments keep their financial data is astounding, just the complexity of it and how different they can be.
Reason
April 30, 2018
The government searched Spencer's home with a warrant to find child pornography. They seized several devices, but some were encrypted. The government is now seeking an All Writs Act order compelling Spencer to decrypt three devices -- phone, a laptop, and an external hard drive -- in suport of theÃâà...
CCN
April 30, 2018
Make sure you check out last weeks post here, now let's go over what happened in crypto this week. Price Watch: Bitcoin is up 5% this week after a strong gain of 15% last week. Much of the price gain came in a giant green candle when the price hit $9,000 before soaring up to $9,230 and stabilizing aroundÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
April 30, 2018
100 W. Washington St., Hagerstown. Tuesday, May 1, 10:30 a.m.. Agenda. • 10:35 a.m.: Closed session. — To discuss the appointment, employment, assignment, promotion, discipline, demotion, compensation, removal, resignation or performance evaluation of appointees, employees or officials overÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
April 30, 2018
From filing taxes to accessing medical records to voting, 99 percent of all government services in Estonia are available online. Accessed at the state portal using an ID card and a pin code, the former Soviet nation is the first in the world to declare the internet a social right. NewsHour Weekend SpecialÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 30, 2018
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) repelled a Syrian government attack on a string of villages along the Euphrates River in the eastern Deir Az Zor province. A statement by the Kurdish-led SDF said on Sunday its fighters mounted a counter-offensive against troops loyal to President BasharÃâà...
Green Bay Press Gazette
April 23, 2018
GREEN BAY - The city of Green Bay has a new website that it says will improve access to information. Meanwhile, an alderman has asked the city to explore the possibility of repealing overnight parking restrictions. And an annual police bike auction has been rescheduled. Here's a rundown of notable localÃâà...
CNBC
April 23, 2018
The amount of plastic accumulating in the ocean is expected to triple between 2015 and 2025, according to a report by the U.K. Government Office for Science. It's both an environmental and an economic problem: The United Nations Environment Programme found that marine litter costs a minimum of $8Ãâà...
Tampabay.com
April 23, 2018
The German government says it stands by its view that the U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria were legal, despite experts saying they breached international law. German parliamentary researchers last week provided an 11-page opinion to lawmakers that questioned whether the alleged chemical attack byÃâà...
Gizmodo
April 23, 2018
Tanzania issued a warning over the weekend that all online media creators, including everything from online radio providers to bloggers, have just two weeks to register with the government. Registration and license fees add up to about $920, roughly what the average Tanzanian earns in an entire year.
NPR
April 23, 2018
When major news happens, stay on top of the latest developments, delivered to your inbox. E-mail address. By subscribing, you agree to NPR's terms of use and privacy policy. More Stories From NPR. World Ãâ÷ Nicaragua's President Withdraws Social Security Reforms That Sparked Violent Unrest Ãâ÷ News.
Roll Call
April 23, 2018
Governments routinely paid ransoms to placate hijackers at first. But after a hijacker threatened to fly a plane into a U.S. nuclear facility in the 1970s, the federal government instituted baggage and passenger screening rules, Young said. Since then, every new threat to air travel has been met with stringentÃâà...
WTOP
April 23, 2018
WASHINGTON — The next time you're at the post office, take a look at the pen you're handed to sign for your package. Or if you work in a government office or at the Pentagon, crack open practically any desk drawer. That slightly smaller-than-average pen, encased in a black tube, with the wordsÃâà...
BBC News
April 23, 2018
The government has restated its commitment to leaving the EU's custom union - ahead of a symbolic vote on the issue this week. Last Wednesday, the government suffered defeat on the EU Withdrawal Bill in the House of Lords on the issue of staying in a UK-EU customs union after Brexit. And MPs will getÃâà...
Digital Trends
April 16, 2018
GuardTime isn't the only organization experimenting with the potential of blockchain solutions to governmental problems. Fluence, a startup developing blockchain database technology, sees great potential for improving trust between government departments. If more government entities can rely on theÃâà...
Newsweek
April 16, 2018
Updated | President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, will get to review the documents that the government seized from him before prosecutors do, a federal judge ruled Monday. After the documents are provided to Cohen and his attorneys, the judge will decide whether a specialÃâà...
CNN
April 16, 2018
A government "taint team" of investigators separate from the investigation is permitted to do a mechanical keyword search to determine what material is protected. — The judge will then decide whether the government "taint team" or an appointed special master would ultimately review the seized materialsÃâà...
Tom's Hardware
April 16, 2018
The U.S. government recently put pressure on telecommunications companies to stop buying Huawei networking equipment and consumer electronics products. ZTE, another Chinese company, now seems to be next in the line of fire of both the UK and U.S. governments.
CNN
April 16, 2018
(CNN) They came to help rebuild Britain after the devastation of World War Two, invited by the UK government to lay roads, drive buses, clean ... But in recent years, successive British governments have sought to appear tough on illegal immigration, and their descendants are now struggling to prove aÃâà...
FiveThirtyEight
April 16, 2018
But the government's data collection isn't perfect, either. The FBI's LEOKA program relies partially on voluntary reports from law enforcement agencies on felonious and accidental deaths of officers. Governmental efforts using the same method to track suicides would also produce an incomplete set of data.
Aljazeera.com
April 16, 2018
Supporters of Turkey's main opposition party have staged sit-in demonstrations across the country to protest against the state of emergency, a move criticised by the government. The demonstrations held on Monday, reportedly in all of Turkey's 81 provinces, were organised as the government prepares thisÃâà...
KCRA Sacramento
April 15, 2018
More local governments in California are resisting the state's efforts to resist the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, and political experts see politics at play as Republicans try to fire up voters in a state where the GOP has grown weak. Since the Jeff Sessions-led Department of Justice suedÃâà...
Quartz
April 13, 2018
NLawyers for Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to Donald Trump, argued in a hearing today that a recent FBI raid on his offices swept up sensitive documents that should be protected by client-attorney privilege. The Southern District of New York (SDNY) has an interesting counterargument: Cohen is barelyÃâà...
Catholic Herald Online
April 13, 2018
In Scotland, the infamous Named Person scheme, in which every child is to have a government employee designated to track their progress and assess their ... has been broadened to include disagreements between unified parents and other authorities, be they educational, medical, or governmental.
Gizmodo
April 13, 2018
The US government is earnestly trying to tackle the opioid crisis, which is killing tens of thousands of Americans each year, but there's no easy way to tell ... Many agencies are also sharing information with other governments and international organizations to stem the shipments of fetanyl from majorÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 13, 2018
Loan servicers, for their part, disagree, insisting that the federal government is right to call states off. They argue that inconsistent policy across states—along with the fees that state-level guidelines might require them to pay—will make it harder for them to serve students. Last month, the EducationÃâà...
The Intercept
April 12, 2018
But operating in Egypt means playing by the rules of an increasingly repressive government, and now, under a new law being fast-tracked through Egypt's parliament, Egyptian authorities will soon have access to the data that Uber collects on those millions of people using its app. The law came after aÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 12, 2018
On the last day of this year's session, the Utah Legislature passed a massive 89-page bill that, among a host of election policies meant to bring the state's code up to date, requires counties to now adopt one of four approved forms of government. All of them have candidates run on party tickets. None ofÃâà...
CNNMoney
April 12, 2018
The government's star witness in its suit to stop AT&T's proposed purchase of Time Warner took the stand in a marathon court session Wednesday. Economist Carl Shapiro said his analysis shows that U.S. consumers could together pay an additional $571 million in the year 2021 if the merger is approved.
The Economist
April 12, 2018
IT'S all about him again. At 81, Silvio Berlusconi has a criminal record (for tax fraud) and is on trial yet again (for allegedly bribing witnesses). His party, Forza Italia, fared disastrously in a general election on March 4th. It won just 14% of the vote and Mr Berlusconi forfeited the leadership of the right to MatteoÃâà...
Variety
April 12, 2018
The Irish government is set to pump €200 million ($247.2 million) into the country's media production and audiovisual industries over the next 10 years. The announcement came as part of the publication of a government report Tuesday titled “Investing in Our Culture, Language and Heritage 2018-2027,” aÃâà...
Wichita Eagle
April 12, 2018
Sedgwick County officials unveiled two possible plans for building a new county government center Wednesday, but commissioners couldn't agree what to do going forward. The commission had earlier moved toward buying the Riverview Building, a mirrored glass office tower at 345 N. Riverview, to houseÃâà...
CyberScoop
April 12, 2018
Cyber-warfare specialists serving with the 175th Cyberspace Operations Group of the Maryland Air National Guard engage in weekend training at Warfield Air National Guard Base, Middle River, Md., Jun. 3, 2017. The military and intelligence community are fighting over the future of government-backedÃâà...
NPR
April 12, 2018
What would happen if an unfriendly nation tried to take down the power grid, or the air traffic control system, or blow up a chemical plant with a cyberattack? How would government agencies respond to such a threat? That kind of war-gaming has been playing out this week in a windowless conference roomÃâà...
Vox
April 11, 2018
When clamping down on what's shared on social media, the government's hands are actually more tied than, say, Facebook or Twitter through their terms ... are running political advertisements and make reasonable efforts to ensure foreign governments and agents aren't purchasing ads on their platforms.
Nextgov
April 4, 2018
Bug bounties are hot in government right now, but the craze may be outpacing the contests' actual usefulness, bug bounty practitioners tell Nextgov. The Defense Department has launched four of the ethical hacking contests, which were first popularized at major tech firms and offer cash rewards inÃâà...
CCN
April 4, 2018
Messaging app provider Telegram has just concluded the second round of its record-setting initial coin offering (ICO), and Iran's government is none too pleased. The app — extremely popular in the authoritarian country — has long incurred the ire of government officials, particularly since it played anÃâà...
ZDNet
April 4, 2018
While the National Broadband Network (NBN) has taken steps to improve its rural and regional rollout in the last year, the Northern Territory government has argued that the "underlying issues" of providing reliable and adequate broadband services to remote areas of Australia remain. "The Sky MusterÃâà...
Washington Technology
April 4, 2018
Siemens' U.S. federal arm has completed the sale of its now-former Dresser-Rand government business to industrial company Curtiss-Wright for $212.5 million in cash, the companies said Tuesday. First announced in February, the divestiture is intended to help Siemens further pivot toward more coreÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 4, 2018
League leader Matteo Salvini (L) and Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio. Photos: Filippo Monteforte, Alberto Pizzoli/AFP. Catherine Edwards. catherine.edwards@thelocal.com @CatJREdwards. 4 April 2018. 11:27 CEST+02:00. Italy's political parties are meeting the country's president to talk aboutÃâà...
The Nation.
April 4, 2018
One element of this appeal is the proposal's simplicity: Any US resident who wants one can get a job, funded by the federal government, that pays a fair wage and provides good benefits. Mark Paul, Darity and Hamilton estimate that the program would employ approximately 13 million people for a cost ofÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 4, 2018
Distinguishing itself in governance terms was not particularly difficult, since the bar was so low; the other choices were the chaotic rule of other rebel groups consumed by infighting, the mass murder of the Assad regime, or the sectarianism of the Iraqi government and Shia militias. In Latin America, variousÃâà...
TechCrunch
April 4, 2018
Millennials are on the move. And they're moving to cities. According to CityLab, the number of 25- to 34-year-olds will increase each year in the United States through 2024, rising from 44.1 million in 2015 to 47.6 million in 2024. This is the time of life when millennials are most likely to live in urban areas.
MarketWatch
April 2, 2018
Natural gas accounted for 32% of the nation's electricity generation in 2017, up from 17% around the turn of the century. Coal's share fell over the same period to 30% from 50%. The result is that coal- and nuclear-power plant operators are struggling, creating political pressure for federal and state leadersÃâà...
Philly.com
April 2, 2018
Margaret “Peg” Gibbons, 69, a journalist believed to have had the longest tenure in the Montgomery County Courthouse press corps, and respected by politicians and government officials despite her withering questioning of their policies, practices, and motives, died of a heart attack March 30, at herÃâà...
CSO Online
April 2, 2018
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, is a program by which the U.S. federal government determines whether cloud products and services are secure enough to be used by federal agencies. While the process for getting the FedRAMP seal of approval is complex, it canÃâà...
Journal of Commerce
April 2, 2018
New provincial governments bring changes to provincial construction Province of British Columbia Flickr - Pictured is Premier John Horgan who recently announced the British Columbia government is overhauling the policy framework for future projects, while ensuring those projects adhere to B.C.'sÃâà...
CBS News
April 2, 2018
A judge issued an order Friday evening barring the government from "interfering with or obstructing" pregnant minors' access to abortion counseling or abortions, among other things, while a lawsuit proceeds. The order covers pregnant minors being held in federal custody after entering the country illegally.
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