Tag: USA

U.S. aviation regulator in talks with telecom industry over 5G dispute (David Shepardson, Reuters)

 The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it is in direct talks with the telecom industry about its aviation safety concerns involving the planned...
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Biden and Xi agree to look at possible arms control talks- Biden adviser (David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina, Tom Daly, Reuters)

U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed at a virtual meeting to look into the possibility of arms control talks, U.S....
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Climate and security to dominate U.S. Secretary of State’s maiden Africa tour (Katharine Houreld, Reuters)

Climate change and security in Ethiopia, Sudan and the Sahel are set to top the agenda as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives...
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Biden bans Nicaragua officials from entering United States (Matt Spetalnick, Reuters)

President Joe Biden on Tuesday banned members of the Nicaraguan government from entering the United States as he issued a broad proclamation in response...
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Questions on the Baghuz Strikes (Brianna Rosen, Luke Hartig, Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman, Just Security)

In March 2019, the U.S. military launched airstrikes against the last ISIS hold-out in Baghuz, Syria. Despite official Department of Defense (DOD) reporting that...
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Biden Signs Infrastructure Bill into Law (Ryan Secard, IndustryWeek)

In an afternoon ceremony on the south lawn of the White House, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law. The act...
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New Sanctions Following Sham Elections in Nicaragua (US Department of State)

The United States is acting to promote accountability for Nicaraguan officials in the wake of the November sham election in Nicaragua.  Today, the Department...
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Iran and US hedge their bets on nuclear deal revival (Ian Dudgeon, The Strategist)

Iran has agreed to recommence negotiations aimed at the US rejoining and fully restoring the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA)...
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Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “FTC Rulemaking Authority: Toward Precautionary Regulations?” (ITIF)

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently lifted many guardrails that channeled its rulemaking authority for broad swaths of the U.S. economy. With an expected...
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Bad form: FBI server sending fake emails taken offline and fixed, no data impacted (Chris Duckett, ZDNet)

The FBI has placed the blame for a weekend fake email incident on a misconfiguration in its Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) that allowed emails to...
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Blinken calls on Cuba to respect rights ahead of planned protests (Monique Beals, The Hill)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Cuba to "reject violence, and instead, embrace this historic opportunity to listen to the voices of their people" ahead of...
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US and Israel announce joint task force on cybersecurity (Monique Beals, The Hill)

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on Sunday that it would work with the Israeli Ministry of Finance to address ransomware and cybersecurity issues. The task...
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Biden-successor chatter grows and Harris isn’t scaring off anyone (Eugene Daniels, Alex Thompson, Politico)

President Joe Biden says he intends to run for reelection in 2024. But not all Democrats believe him. Nor are they convinced his No....
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How a Massachusetts town is investing in social infrastructure to rebuild its Main Street (Aaron Greiner and Emily Cooper, Brookings)

In his book Palaces for the People, sociologist Eric Klinenberg demonstrates a correlation between death rates in the 1995 Chicago heat wave and access to social infrastructure....
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TechTank Podcast Episode 32: In the U.S.A.’s tech-driven economy, is enough being done to protect consumer choice and privacy? (Bill Baer, Brookings)

Today antitrust enforcement, competition policy, and privacy are hot button issues in the U.S. and around the world. Critics of tech giants like Google,...
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States can improve housing well-being through thoughtfully designed policies (Jenny Schuetz, Brookings)

Rising housing costs have become an increasingly salient political issue for state-level elected officials across the United States. Local governments have traditionally exerted the most direct control over land use and...
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