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Defusing the Global Climate Emergency Depends on Defusing the Democracy Emergency
A year ago today, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy were fleeing for their lives as a violent mob swarmed the halls of the U.S. Capitol. With their personal safety at risk, the two most powerful Republicans on Capitol Hill at last stood up to Donald Trump. In a heated phone call, McCarthy, the House minority…
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Russian Businessman Taken By U.S. Accused of Swiping Earnings Reports From Tesla, Others
Swiss authorities in Zurich put Vladislav Klyushin, a Russian businessman widely noted for his Kremlin ties, on a flight bound for the U.S. on Saturday, ending a months-long extradition fight that cast a pall over this summer’s Putin-Biden talks in Geneva.
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Verizon Allowed to Swallow Tracfone Whole After FCC Approves $8.3 Billion Deal
The slow creep of U.S. carrier consolidation continues. In this instalment, Verizon is getting ready to gobble up millions of new wireless subscribers now that the Federal Communications Commission has officially approved its acquisition of Tracfone, one of the country’s largest providers of subsidized mobile phones for low-income people. The relatively under-the-radar $US6 (A$8.3) billion-plus…
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U.S. Pentagon and State Lack ‘Technical Capacity’ to Detect ‘Stingray’ Phone Surveillance, Senator Says
A slew of federal agency heads and the nation’s top intelligence official are being pressed to respond to what one influential senator is calling an “abysmal failure” by the U.S. government to defend its own employees from unauthorised mobile phone surveillance.