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  Cellphone calls on planes? FCC chairman is not a fan

  Los Angeles Times

  A day after the Federal Communications Commission said it is considering lifting the ban on cellphone calls on planes, the head of the panel said he would prefer that cellphones remain silent on planes. “We understand that many passengers would prefer that voice calls not be made on airplanes,” FCC …

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  Investigations: U.S. & World News Investigations

  NBC News

  IRS officials say the Employee Retention Tax Credit program has been a magnet for unscrupulous promoters who filed a “tsunami of bad claims.” 3d ago A new U.S. military review identified the bomber for the first time and found that the 2021 deadly attack was not preventable. Two top House Republicans …

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  The (really) do-nothing Congress

  POLITICO - By Manu Raju

  Sen. Tom Carper had been wavering over the “nuclear option” for days — until one of his colleagues issued a blunt judgment of Congress. “My colleague said, ‘It’s hard to imagine it getting much worse because we’re not getting anything done,’” the veteran Delaware Democrat said. “If there was an a-ha …

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  Latvia president calls supermarket collapse 'murder'

  bbc.co.uk - BBC News

  The Latvian president has described the collapse of a supermarket in the capital Riga as "murder". Andris Berzins said many defenceless people had been killed in "our own made disaster", and called for foreign experts to investigate what happened. Fifty-four people have died since part of the roof …

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  Nov 23, 2013

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  LeAnda Russell

  

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  Nov 23, 2013