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Two Republican members of Congress have asked the Defense Department’s Inspector General to probe the specs for a $ 10 billion cloud computing contract. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bd21cbb9f47f46d0140e98a/master/pass/Business-PentagonJEDI-Amazon-1032941996-w.jpg
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Emissions,Emerging Technologies,Technology,Truck,Commercial Vehicles This follows last week’s 35 percent target for passenger vehicles. Continue reading EU lawmakers back 35 percent cut in trucks’ CO2 output by 2030 EU lawmakers back 35 percent cut in trucks’ CO2 output by 2030 originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 18 Oct 2018 […]
Psychological pressure, sexual harassment and violence against female MPs and staffers are widespread in parliaments all across Europe, according to a new report by a Council of Europe body. A new study released on Tuesday by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) claims a vast majority of […]
NBC “Saturday Night Live’s” cold open portrayed Republican lawmakers holding a raucous victory party celebrating Judge Brett Kavanaugh‘s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh was sworn in earlier on Saturday following congressional hearings where Dr. Christine Blasey Ford accused him of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school and a week-long FBI investigation. “Don, I’m […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused him sexual assault, went before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday where they each delivered passionate testimonies about the alleged incident. The hearing were, by turns, emotional, contentious, and dramatic. As the hearings adjourned at the end of the […]
Win McNamee/Getty Images The American Bar Association published a letter urging for the Senate Judiciary Committee to delay its vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. The ABA said the FBI should investigate the numerous sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh. During his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Kavanaugh touted […]
Two US lawmakers have introduced legislation that would help expand the AMBER Alert system to all territories, which include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Marianas Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Established nationally in 2003, the system sends alerts over TV, radio, digital billboards and cellphones and has helped find more than 900 […]
Enlarge / Getting back to the Moon will require navigating politics on Earth. (credit: JAXA / NHK) The Apollo missions that flew to the Moon during the 1960s were designed and controlled by what is now known as Johnson Space Center, the home of the famous “Mission Control.” Moreover, the astronauts that flew to the […]
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2017. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Democratic members of Congress want to know when Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai knew that the FCC’s claims about being hit by a DDoS attack were false. An FCC […]
A man from upstate New York has been arrested after leaving threatening voicemails to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), who was injured last year in a politically motivated shooting, and another lawmaker. Carlos Bayon, 63, was arrested Wednesday and charged with interstate communication of a threat. Originally from Puerto Rico, Bayon is a resident […]
