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| Apr 24, 2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Potatoes are a vegetable, not a grain | Potatoes are a very versatile vegetable. You can eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. They can be cooked lots of ways on their own, mixed into soups, side dishes, and made into pasta and bread. You can even make vodka from pota... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Biden taps Harry Coker for national cyber director post | President Biden intends to nominate Harry Coker, a former NSA and CIA official, to be the next national cyber director, the White House announced Tuesday.
Why it matters: The position has been vacant for roughly five months after Chris Ingl... |
| Jul 13, 2023 | Academia, Industry, And Government Can Create Innovative Partnerships And Help Secure Our Digital Future | Digital transformation concept. System engineering. Binary code. Programming.getty |
| May 19, 2023 | Sen. King Suggests Simple Fix to VA Director to Smooth Military Transitions | WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs (SVAC), today suggested to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough a number of simple fixes that could smooth the process for s... |
| Feb 4, 2023 | Manchin, Bipartisan Colleagues Urge Administration to Invest in Non-Lithium Energy Storage Solutions | Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Angus King (I-ME), Jim Risch (R-ID), Shelley Capito (R-WV), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to Secretary of Energy... |
| Jan 3, 2023 | New Data Quantifies Ransomware Attacks on Healthcare Providers | On a Sunday in early October, CommonSpirit Health, the second-largest hospital chain in the U.S., detected unusual activity on its network. What turned out to be a ransomware attack forced many of CommonSpirit’s more-than 140 hospitals acro... |
| Jun 23, 2022 | King Joins Bipartisan Legislation to Support Hiring of Military Spouses | WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is cosponsoring bipartisan legislation to help military spouses find employment. The Military Spouse Hiring Act would incentivize small b... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | NOAA Forecasts Graduated Enforcement Approach in Response to Call from Maine Delegation, Governor Mills to Delay Looming Lobster Gear Deadline Amid Supply Chain Disruption | April 20, 2022
Scarcity of required gear is making it extremely difficult for lobstermen to meet the May 1st deadline
WASHINGTON, DC—Following repeated calls from the Maine Delegation and Governor Janet Mills, the National Oceanic and Atmos... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | The IMF says a Russian debt default is no longer ‘improbable’ after banks freeze half of Moscow’s foreign reserves | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
A Russian sovereign default is no longer an “improbable event,” International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing... |
| Feb 24, 2022 | Mazars Creep and the Jan. 6 Committee | According to Stanley Brand, the former general counsel to the House of Representatives, the House select committee probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is “the mother of all investigations.” It’s “a quantum leap for Congress in a way I’ve nev... |
| Feb 1, 2022 | 3 Democratic senators introduce legislation to prevent another January 6-style coup attempt | Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Erin Schaff – Pool/Getty Images
Three senators introduced legislation to stop another January 6-style coup attempt.
The bill reforms p... |
| May 15, 2021 | I moved from NYC to rural Vermont and had to figure out how to get a strong, high-quality internet connection on my own. I tried it all – here’s what works. | Working off my phone’s hotspot. The black box with the green light on the wall near the guitar is a component of the WeBoost system. Alex Lockie
Alex Lockie recently moved out of New York City into a home in rural southern Vermont.
He had t... |
| May 15, 2021 | I moved from NYC to rural Vermont and had to figure out how to get a strong, high-quality internet connection on my own. I tried it all - here's what works. | Alex Lockie recently moved out of New York City into a home in rural southern Vermont.
He had to test out how to establish a strong internet connection to be able to work from home.
From satellite internet, to boosting cell phone signal, to... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Biden Administration Eases Student Loan Forgiveness For Disabled Borrowers | Today, the U. S. Department of Education announced efforts to improve the loan forgiveness process ... [+] for student borrowers who have a total or permanent disability.Getty Images |
| Jan 15, 2021 | How to Make the National Cyber Director Position Work | Over the new year, Congress overrode President Trump’s veto to enact into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2021—an annual piece of legislation that lays out the budget, expenditures and policies of the Pentagon f... |
| Jul 30, 2020 | U S Senate Committee on Environment and Public Wo : To Confront Climate Change Challenge, Senators Carper, King, Manchin, Cantwell Push for Federal Review of Methane Emissions | WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Angus King (I-Maine), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Maria Cantwell (D-Wa.) sent a letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptr... |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Morning Brief: Rare Utah earthquake knocks out power to 55,000 | A 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit Utah on Wednesday morning, knocking out power and rattling residents already shaken up by the coronavirus pandemic. About 55,000 people lost electricity in the Salt Lake City Area, utility Rocky Mountain Power... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Lobster emoji coming to smartphones this summer thanks to Maine senator | Lobbying for a lobster emoji has finally paid off for U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine), whose letter convinced California-based emoji developer Unicode Consortium to add the popular crustacean to its growing textbox library.
Sent in Septem... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | Republican Senator to Ajit Pai: Ending Net Neutrality ‘Would Cause Immediate Harm’ | Thursday morning Senator Susan Collins wrote a strong letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai urging him to delay today’s vote to repeal net neutrality protections, becoming the first Republican Senator to directly urg... |
| Dec 13, 2017 | 39 senators tell FCC: ‘Abandon this radical and reckless plan’ | In a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, 39 senators (all Democrats, though Republicans have also voiced concern) urge the agency to stop its plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. Where the objections have come in ones and twos before, this ... |
| Jul 6, 2017 | A proposal would limit prices on meds developed with Defense Department dollars | A U.S. senator is trying to lower prices for medicines that are discovered with taxpayer dollars, and his effort amounts to a new twist to unraveling a complicated controversy that has embroiled the U.S. Department of Defense, large drug ma... |
| May 9, 2016 | Not really “broadband”—US grant program has 4Mbps speed standard | Even turtles need more than 4Mbps.
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| Apr 2, 2014 | Some Senators Finally Willing To Call CIA's Torture Program 'Torture' | We’ve been writing quite a bit about the supposedly devastating $40 million, 6,300 page Senate report that exposes the CIA torture program for being useless — and (perhaps more importantly) describing in detail how the CIA lied about it to ... |
| East Coast lobster harvest sustainable, according to non-profit's criteria — but a Seafood Watch report advises consumers to avoid it | Note: This story has been updated with new information.
A recent report by a California-based seafood assessment group has the East Coast lobster industry seeing red.
While Seafood Watch has put lobster on its “red list” and recommend consu... |
| Maine Sen. Angus King on US Paris Agreement pull-out: ‘We’ve abdicated our global leadership’ | Senator Angus King (I-ME) commented today on yesterday’s announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of the US’s “formal process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.”
Angus King sits on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. ... |
| EGEB: Kids can learn about green energy on this fun, free science website | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Mystery Science is providing free science lessons online for school-age kids.
The Battery and Critical Mineral Recycling Act of 2020 aims to provide grants to recycle batteries in the US.
The M... |
| A new US bill would provide grants to support recycling batteries | Senator Angus King (I-ME) introduced the Battery and Critical Mineral Recycling Act of 2020 this month. The groundbreaking bill aims, as it simply states, “to support the reuse and recycling of batteries and critical minerals, and for other... |
| ChatGPT Adds New AI Scheduling Tools for Certain Users | As the battle of words continues between Microsoft and Salesforce over their respective agentic AI offerings, ChatGPT has sneaked in an upgrade that shows it is pushing hard in that area too.
OpenAI is bringing reminder or recurring request... |
| EGEB: DOE/DOD power storage bill heads to Senate leader, China is building coal plants, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
A vital US DOE/DOD power storage bill passes energy committee, heads to the floor.
Atlassian billionaire cofounder and Tesla work together on a huge Australian solar energy export project.
A $1... |
| BIDIRECTIONAL Act introduced in US Senate to promote electric school buses feeding grid | A new bill introduced Friday by US Senator Angus King of Maine could unlock the true potential of electric school buses and provide stability to communities in need. The BIDIRECTIONAL Act would “create a program dedicated to deploying elect... |
| EGEB: US energy efficiency jobs grow 3.4% in 2018, Pittsburgh airport to become energy self-sufficient by 2021 | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
US energy efficiency jobs grow 3.4% in 2018, and New Mexico leads percentage-wise at 11.5%.
Pittsburgh airport will power itself with its own microgrid by 2021.
Supreme Court green-lights Balti... |
| Sam Altman Leaves OpenAI’s Safety Committee but Accountability Still Questioned | CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman has stepped down from the oversight committee created to look at company’s creations from a safety angle.
The committee will now be “independent” says the company though it consists of existing members of OpenAI’s ... |
| Senate interviews deputy energy secretary for top position at DOE | US Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette had his first Senate hearing for the post of secretary of energy yesterday. He was tapped by Donald Trump to replace Rick Perry. Brouillette previously worked for Ford as a VP of their policy team.... |
| Occidental Petroleum CEO: ‘We support the direct regulation of methane’ [Update – methane limits reinstated in Senate] | Update April 28, 5:24 p.m. ET: The US Senate has voted 52-42 to reinstate regulations on methane emissions, a harmful greenhouse gas that traps 84 times more atmospheric heat than carbon dioxide. The Senate voted on a Congressional Review A... |