Education, transportation highlight 2015 in Congress
By MATTHEW DALY In a chaotic year, when Republicans in the House unseated a speaker, Congress produced a significant amount of bipartisan legislation that affects every American. It enacted laws…
Telecommunications regulation
NTSB says Amtrak engineer didn’t use cellphone before crash
By JOAN LOWY The engineer driving an Amtrak train wasn’t using his cellphone to talk, text or download data just before the train derailed in Philadelphia last month, safety investigators…
OBAMA BACKS LIMITS ON NSA PHONE COLLECTIONS
By JULIE PACE FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the…
ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT APPROVES TV MEDIA LIMITS
By MICHAEL WARREN A man walks by a mural depicting Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez, holding a frame over the image of a man with a Clarin newspaper logo on the…
NSA CHIEF ADMITS TESTING US CELLPHONE TRACKING
By KIMBERLY DOZIER and STEPHEN BRAUN National Intelligence Director James Clapper listens at left, as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct.…
FAA TO WEIGH EASING LIMITS ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES
By JOAN LOWY FILE – In this June 18, 2013 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Airline passengers may get some relief from restrictions…
SENATE PURSUES LAW TO LIMIT NSA SURVEILLANCE
By KIMBERLY DOZIER Senate Intelligence Committee ChairmaSen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., second from left, talks with from left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander, and…
OFFICIALS: OBAMA NAMING NC’S WATT FOR HOUSING POST
By JIM KUHNHENN FILE – In this Sept. 2012 file photo, Rep. Melvin Watt of North Carolina addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012.…