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    News Literacy Project Trains Young People to Be Skeptical Media Consumers

    Dec 13, 2011 11:37 PM EST

    ... the idea of making this into a national program got a recent boost from Michael Copps, a member of the Federal Communications Commission. MICHAEL COPPS, FCC: And we need to focus on bringing all these together in the public sector and in the private sector to develop an online news ...

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    Immigration, Affirmative Action on New High Court Docket; Health Reform Awaited

    Oct 03, 2011 10:18 PM EST

    ... that the court has handled, the violent video games, the protests at military funerals. And now again, we have a First Amendment case involving the FCC and the fleeting expletives, a continuation of their interest in the Fourth Amendment, as we see with the GPS case and the strip searches ...

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    Supreme Court Case Preview: TV Indecency, GPS and 'Peter and the Wolf'

    Oct 03, 2011 01:29 PM EST

    ... Nudity and 'Fleeting Expletives' Nudity and fleeting expletives make a return engagement to the Court this term courtesy of Fox Television and ABC. The case, FCC v. Fox Television Stations, stems from the use of fleeting expletives exclaimed by Cher and Nicole Richie during two live awards shows on Fox ...

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    DOJ Makes 'Audacious' Move to Block $39B AT&T, T-Mobile Merger

    Aug 31, 2011 10:09 PM EST

    ... it could do is, it could come up with a settlement. It could concede to some conditions that the Justice Department may be seeking. The FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, also has to weigh in on this deal. But both agencies, both the Justice Department and the FCC, have to ...

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    How Do You Hack Into Someone's Voicemail?

    Jul 12, 2011 08:29 PM EST

    ... can be granted only to protect national security. News International may also face legal problems in the U.S. under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) based on allegations that News of the World reporters offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of ...

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    Top Pakistani Scientist Claims N. Korea Nuclear Ties, China Denies Rumors of Jiang Zemin's Death

    Jul 07, 2011 12:34 PM EST

    ... adding a higher level of seating. All of the injured are believed to be construction workers. The De Grolsch Veste stadium is home to the FC Twente soccer club. The team was training elsewhere at the time of the accident. View all of our World coverage and follow us on ...

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    How Will Consumers Fare in T-Mobile, AT&T Merger?

    Mar 23, 2011 12:06 AM EST

    AT&T announced plans on Monday to buy wireless competitor T-Mobile for $39 billion. If approved, the sale would create the U.S.'s largest wireless carrier. Ray Suarez talks with Jeffrey Silva of Medley Global Advisors and Gigi Sohn of Public Knowledge about the merger's potential impact on consumers and the industry.

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    AT&T to Buy T-Mobile: Duopoly in the Making or Fair Business Merger?

    Mar 21, 2011 10:15 PM EST

    It's safe to say that AT&T's big move to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion took much of the tech world by surprise Monday -- and that seems to include Sprint, who had been in talks with T-Mobile recently. But there was less consensus on what the deal could mean for competition in the wireless industry...

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    How Did Egypt's Government Halt Internet Access?

    Feb 16, 2011 05:00 AM EST

    Jeffrey Brown talks with The New York Times' James Glanz and Georgetown University's Michael Nelson about the logistics and motives behind the Egyptian government's Internet blackout during the political uprising.

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    Financial Crisis Commission Divided Over Causes, Culprits Behind Meltdown

    Jan 27, 2011 09:31 PM EST

    A bipartisan commission charged with investigating the causes of the financial crisis released its findings Thursday, but the members' conclusions fell along party lines. Judy Woodruff speaks with the chairman, Phil Angelides, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was part of the dissenting Republican minority.