he bid to reconsider an agreement in Baltimore are the strongest signs yet that the Trump administration not only plans to scale back the number of new investigations it launches into unconstitutional policing, excessive force and other law enforcement misconduct allegations but also the likelihood it will seek to reopen agreements the Obama civil rights unit had already negotiated.

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insurers in states that waived community rating couldn’t tell sick customers to take a hike, but they could jack up premiums enough to make insurance plans for these customers unaffordable or useless.

the rating provision, but not the coverage guarantee for people with pre-existing conditions, would make the latter functionally useless.

but when pressed on whether gutting the community rating provisions would allow insurers to charge people with pre-existing conditions more, he acknowledged that some sick people may be picking up the slack so that premiums of the healthy would go down.

the key concession from GOP leaders that is likely to satisfy conservative House Freedom Caucus members—would allow states to waive not just the ten essential benefits that are required by the ACA, but its central risk-pooling provision, which prohibits insurance companies from charging sick customers more than healthy customers.

Insurance companies will sometimes retroactively cancel your entire policy if you made a mistake on your initial application when you buy an individual market insurance policy.

There are not a lot of people complaining about white supremacy, and there isn't a lot of chatter about the surge of Islamophobia in the world. I understand the need to insulate oneself from upsetting topics, but insulation necessarily breeds insularity.

mastodon.social bans Nazis. Not even implicitly, but explicitly.

Peter Thiel will never partly own Mastodon.

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This law represents Kulanu as a nationalist socially oriented party that believes in a balance between national pride and human rights.”

On Monday, it passed a law denying entry to any person “who knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel” or any territory “under Israeli control,” which includes settlements in the West Bank.

Republicans said the measure would let states divert money now going to groups that provide abortion to organizations that don’t, like community health centers.

only if they are incapable of providing those services.

But education groups oppose the law and want it changed, saying the decision of when to start school should be decided at the local level.

But in a nod to the tourism industry, which has long supported the post Labor Day start requirement, the legislation would prohibit schools from holding class on Mondays or Fridays in August.

writing legislation that would punish scientific journals that publish research that doesn’t fit standards of peer review crafted by Smith and the committee (although he didn’t say how that would be accomplished).

he term politically correct science.”

Michael Mann, a climate researcher at Pennsylvania State University in State College and a frequent target of climate change doubters. “That’s why this hearing is going to be so much fun,” Smith said with a huge grin on his normally impassive face.

The audience cheered loudly as Smith read the names of three witnesses—climate scientist Judith Curry, who recently retired from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; policy specialist Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado in Boulder; and John Christy, a professor of earth system science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville—he expects to support his view that climate change is a politically driven fabrication and that taking steps to mitigate its impact will harm the U.S. economy

“Next week we’re going to have a hearing on our favorite subject of climate change and also on the scientific method, which has been repeatedly ignored by the so-called self-professed climate scientists,

The most basic thing you can do if and when your service provider tries to collect and sell your data? Switch to another provider—assuming you can find one that won’t turn around and do the same.

What’s more, the measure bars the FCC from passing similar protections in the future.

(The Senate’s approval last week stuck strictly to party lines.)

In April 2016, an anti-encryption bill was submitted to the Senate, which proposed that people should be required to comply with any authorized court order for data and that if that data is “unintelligible” – meaning encrypted – then it must be decrypted for the court.[

The university has promised to give the descendants preferential admissions status at the school.

“I don’t hate anyone. I don’t think it is on my level,” he said

“I got depressed. ... I saw it was too late. It’s irreversible,” he said, adding, “I didn’t want to put my family through any more pain.”

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In 1990, educational computer researcher Margaret Neiss dismissed programming as being an outdated skill unnecessary for teachers to master

Top-down, one-size-fits-all regulations by Washington bureaucrats won’t help make affordable housing more accessible to those who need it. The best way to reduce the cost of housing and increase access is to enable state and local authorities to make decisions that are best suited to the needs of their communities and residents.

shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that housing policies that inadvertently hurt minorities were just as bad as those that explicitly discriminated

Romney’s initiative, which by no means addressed every local government that violated the FHA, was soon reeled in by Nixon.

He dubbed his initiative "Open Communities" and did not clear it with the White House.

The legislation seeks to nullify the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which gives concrete guidance to entities receiving federal funds on how to proactively dismantle historical patterns of housing segregation—a requirement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.

Reif calculated the social value of the reduction in elderly mortality attributable to Medicare Part D at $5 billion per year

confirmed that one of the prosecutors was fired because Republican politicians complained to the White House that he was not prosecuting Democrats for voter fraud and corruption

were supplied with bottled water at taxpayer expense even as the state insisted that the water was safe for the poor people of Flint to drink.

The School also placed in the top ten for Archives and Preservation, Health Librarianship, and Information Systems.

from to existing multidisciplinary data repositories,

he State Department came under fire for selecting McPike to go on the trip, rather than following tradition and allowing a pool reporter to go. “When I have something important and useful to say, I know where everybody is and I know how to go out there and say it,” Tillerson said. He also said taking fewer reporters with him means the plane “flies faster, allows me to be more efficient,” and noted that there’s plenty of media in the places he’s going to get the story out.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday dismissed concerns over his decision not to let a pool reporter travel with him on his trip to Asia, saying he’s simply “not a big media press access person.”

Trump reportedly called his predecessor to thank him for the letter he left in the Oval Office but that overture was never returned

They dropped for a few days after Mr. Sessions, who is viewed as a bullish influence on the stocks, came under pressure for failing to disclose to the Senate that he had met twice with the Russian ambassador, amid a furor over possible Russian meddling in the presidential election. But Mr. Trump has stoutly backed Mr. Sessions, and “the stocks responded positively,” Mr. Kodesch said.

Investor expectations that the actual business of incarceration and detention will expand under Mr. Trump have fueled their levitating share prices.

Since the election, CoreCivic’s stock price has climbed 120 percent, and Geo’s has gained 80 percent.

“I think the starting position is that we’re not going to support regulating broadband as a telecom service or utility, the Title II provisions,” Wicker told The Hill in an interview Wednesday. “It’s just completely unacceptable in a world where technology changes every few weeks.”

That uncertainty has many in the tech world hoping Congress can craft lasting rules and has Thune and Wicker believing they have an opening.

Melvin also noted that the NASA Education program MUREP, which helps fund students seeking STEM degrees at historically black colleges and universities, will be eliminated — weeks after Trump signed an executive order moving oversight of a federal initiative to support HBCUs from the Education Department to the White House.

Nothing stops officials, whether at public schools or public colleges, from promoting sensitivity, tolerance of difference, and civil behavior.

Walk away, don’t listen, or respond

principals can’t punish children who hurl racist and sexist insults at classmates unless the slur is accompanied by physical acts.

That means allowing students to wear Confederate symbols unless a school has a history of serious racial conflict, including violent incidents.

Insults, group disparagement, and offensive speech targeting individuals are, naturally, a shock to young men and women who have been shielded from them.

eschewing the logic of what we have come to know as "microaggressions," the justices rebuked officials who claimed they had acted in part to spare the feelings, and avoid the possible reactions, of students who were friends with a recent graduate who had died in the war.

unable to distinguish between harassment and a legitimate theological stance, a high-school teacher in Michigan removed Daniel Glowacki from a Spirit Day anti-bullying lesson after Glowacki objected to the message, explaining that, as a Roman Catholic, "I don’t accept gays."

symbols like the Confederate flag

but they also often censor and punish controversial constitutionally protected speech of all sorts.

Indeed, with speech codes sometimes stricter than those of public schools, colleges only reinforce students’ ignorance of, if not disdain for, crucial free-speech principles.

40 percent of millennials believe that society should prevent speech that offends minority groups.

CBO predicted 89 percent of the nonelderly would be covered by last year. CDC put the actual percentage at 89.7 percent.

CBO greatly overestimated the number who would get government-subsidized coverage through the new insurance exchanges.

CBO projected that in 2016 that nonelderly rate would fall to 11 percent, and the latest figure put the actual rate at 10.3 percent.

The US has a net neutrality rule that prohibits ISPs from blocking websites

Efforts that limit access to federal data can harm the local decisionmakers the bill aims to protect.

eliminate the collection of local housing data, stating that “no Federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing.”

shouldn’t be encumbered by lawsuits while in office.

The Independent that the initial registration of a long-denied Trump trademark "certainly seems to run afoul of the foreign emoluments clause" of the US Constitution.

The trip is now a focus of congressional and FBI investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.

Kennedy plans to work with a local architect, reports Berkeleyside, and use union labor to address any such problems in Berkeley.

an unspecified parcel of city land, possibly in a stack of 100 that reaches up four stories. The rent for the units is $1,000 a month, which would be paid by the city and is well below Berkeley’s average apartment rent of $3,233.

when President Bush used his power to make recess appointments to circumvent a filibuster by Senate Democrats.

a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that doesn’t reveal its donors but seems to have plenty of money to throw around these days. Last year it spent more than $7 million, by its own count, encouraging GOP senators to stand fast against filling Scalia’s seat in a campaign it dubbed “Let the People Decide.”

Another member of that class: Norm Eisen, Obama’s former ethics czar, who has been vociferously critical of conflicts of interest in the Trump administration.

All the justices except Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas have an average estimated net worth of more than $1.5 million.

One somewhat extreme method he suggests is to set up two-factor authentication for your sensitive accounts, so that accessing them requires entering not only a password but a code sent to your phone via text message. Then, before you cross the border, make sure you don’t have the SIM card that allows you—or customs officials—to receive that text message, essentially denying yourself the ability to cooperate with agents even if you wanted to.

preferably an iPhone,

authorizes an attorney to visit you if you are detained at the border, but it has to be completed and signed in advance of your crossing.

nd as a result put preclearance back on the table for Texas.

the DOJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,” Judge Smith wrote.

To deactivate the filter, you would have to request it in writing, prove that you are 18 or older and pay a $20 deactivation fee.

It would require the manufacturers of mobile devices that have internet access to create and impose the filter. It’s up to the manufacturers to decide whether material is obscene.

He hasn't donated the items, saying he doesn’t trust they’d be added.

he man at the Ronning branch Leneker called out for refusing his donation told Fick he didn’t recall the interaction.

“They’re focusing and limiting the knowledge of people who are using their library,” said Leneker, who wrote another letter to the Argus Leader expressing his frustration over the donation issue. “Some people don’t like history because they have an agenda.”

He suspects the political content of the materials was behind that.

Pundit Glenn Beck has endorsed it and interviewed its author, G. Edward Griffin.

ally in Rotterdam for a Turkish referendum on constitutional reforms to expand presidential powers, which the Dutch see as a step backward from democracy.

he right of Turkish government officials to speak about their political plans at rallies in Europe.

Eventually, Germany could also lower corporate taxes and social contributions, making itself more attractive to international companies.

Banks also said that he was mistakenly registered as a lobbyist due to an error by his office manager.

Trump’s order also removed the requirement to provide a public interest justification for waivers.

banning them from directly handling issues on which they had lobbied.

"has everything to do with an understaffed, overworked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services."

Iowa and Kansas have prohibited the use of Black Asphalt by law enforcement agencies because of concerns that it “might not be a legal law enforcement tool,”

ICE’s enforcement focuses overwhelmingly on immigrants, the ICM funding documents make clear the intelligence tool can also be aimed at U.S. citizens. “Citizenship can be established a variety of ways to include biographical and biometric system checks,” one document states. “U.S. Citizens are still subject to criminal prosecution and thus are a part of ICM.”

The system provides its users access to intelligence platforms maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and an array of other federal and private law enforcement entities.

seized by deputies, who informed the protestors that they could pick the guns up at the sheriff’s office.

instituting voluntary background checks

by the benefits accrued to their professional reputation when other scholars read, and cite, their published work. They care about recognition, not royalties.

it’s unclear if probable cause is a requirement for police to seize property in Illinois. Even if an owner is never charged or convicted of a crime, law enforcement agencies are not obligated to return property that was seized during an investigation.

WikiLeaks has a long track record of releasing top secret government documents.

saying, if we mandate everybody buys what we say they have to buy, then the government will always estimate that they’ll buy it.”

“What matters is that we're the lowering costs of health care and giving people access to affordable health care plans,” Ryan responded.

lowering costs for everyone was more important.

It is not unusual for a new president to replace United States attorneys appointed by a predecessor, especially when there has been a change in which party controls the White House.

the scrubbing of Nexis-Lexis data about Jeff Sessions just before his Senate confirmation;

I got the results of my campus tenure vote and I PASSED. Of the people voting for me, no one voted no on my dossier at the campus level. Couple of absence/abstention so I can’t say unanimous but I’ll take an overwhelming majority and no one against.

The money was seized because law-enforcement officials believed that it was “substantially connected to criminal activity,” including the sale of narcotics. James Leonard’s mother, Lisa Olivia Leonard, claimed to be the rightful owner of the money from the house sale and sued the government to regain it. But because she didn’t raise her due-process claims at the trial level, the Supreme Court declined to hear her case, leaving her with little recourse.

And I just don't know how you do that if you have someone looking over your shoulder and sort of coughing slightly to let you know when you're off."

People are more sensitive now, she says, but literature can't come from a place of fear.

"We're not boycotting Israeli companies. We're only trying to divest in companies that are involved in the internationally recognized illegal activities of the Israeli government and military within Palestinian territories," he said

The Republican sponsors of the legislation have argued that the government should not crowd out private financial firms, which offer such services.

younger researchers, female researchers, and researchers in developing countries.

Facebook is outsourcing its decision-making power about what’s in your News Feed

“You and your family are fired,” the text read. “I hope you enjoyed your day off, and you can enjoy many more. Love you.”

What mechanism must be created to foster a more nimble, reflexive, responsive, and even proactive national voice?

The counterpoint is that developing, maintaining and publishing technical codes is expensive, which is why the current copyright system should remain in place.

There is, however, debate over whether the formatting is sufficiently accessible.

the technical codes are available online for free, which is true.

the resulting opinion questioned whether copyright law as it relates to this issue was in the interest of the public, going so far as to suggest that changes be made in Congress.

anyone who subsequently posts them online is committing a copyright violation.

This debate was at the center of a recent court ruling that questioned whether technical standards created by private entities and incorporated into law can be copyrighted. The answer, as passed down by a U.S. District Court, was indeed they can

The emphasis switched from leukemia to lung cancer, and a change in medical record software rendered Watson incompatible without an overhaul. Moreover, the info used to feed Watson is outdated.

ederal records apply to all “federal agencies” in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, but do not include the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.

the state-run program will allow more rural health clinics to offer family planning services.

The proprietary data held by Ringgold, such as the Ringgold ID, metadata, demographics and organizational relationships are not shared in this dataset.

I regret if anyone was offended by my choice of metaphors but my intention was to focus on the protesters being hateful and to open up a dialogue on this point."

The drawing depicts a woman passively walking while being protected from angry protesters. Isn't that what went down the other day when Devos visited a school to do her job?

So far, jurisdictions in 21 states have passed laws regarding body camera footage -- most of them restricting it. The state of South Carolina has exempted the footage from public records requests altogether.

“What if we had a band playing outside inviting young people in to rock the library? What if there was live music on the weekends? A lot of kids out there don’t have places to go, and a lot of the time they go to the wrong places. What if this would become that place?” Christopher said, noting that the Cybrary will also have a themed coffee shop and restaurant.

Before you know it libraries across the country will want a Cybrary in their community,”

Christopher said one goal is to have the Cybrary bring in revenue to the city. The city even trademarked the “Cybrary” brand.

“Most of it will be free but there are going to be aspects of it that there will probably be a charge for. Most of these decisions have not been made,” Porter said.

How long books stay around will depend on their popularity.

council members asked 20 high school students if they had been to the library in the past two years. Only two students raised their hands. At the time, the city already had starting planning the Cybrary and wanted to know where conventional libraries fall short.

What if children weren’t hushed but rather encouraged and inspired to really want to read, to learn, to explore new places to really engage?” said Tony Christopher, Landmark’s founder, CEO and president.

no shushing, no boredom

“When you think about bettering this thing called a library, which has been around since before 300 B.C, do you turn to the library scientists — the librarians — to create a fresh and new thing, or do you turn to people who have expertise in the areas of entertainment and attraction?”

the world’s first “Cybrary,” or cyber library.

Senate votes on key Trump nominations.

she could have told me where to go for it. But she wouldn’t because she needed me to be pregnant for her case.”

Norma Nelson — her middle name was variously spelled Lea, Leah and Leigh — was born in Simmesport, La., on Sept. 22, 1947. Her father, a television repairman, was largely absent from her life.

Polemics

Mr. Trump tells foreign leaders in his phone calls. Some staff members have turned to encrypted communications to talk with their colleagues, after hearing that Mr. Trump’s top advisers are considering an “insider threat” program that could result in monitoring cellphones and emails for leaks.

The president has complained to at least one person about "how his people didn't give him good advice" on rolling out the travel ban and that he should have waited to sign it instead of "rushing it like they wanted me to."

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The school declined to respond to WSBTV’s inquiries about the situation, telling the news station that the police would handle it. The sheriff’s office was involved, according to the news station.

the Neighborhood Learning Center, telling her that that day would be her son’s last at the school.

Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to use existing federal law to prosecute those who commit crimes against law enforcement officers.

In June, 20-year-old Regina Elsea was crushed to death by a robot at a Kia and Hyundai auto parts supplier in Alabama.

Another part of the bill would require staffing firms to track race, gender and ethnicity of job applicants. Last year, the investigative news organization Reveal found that companies sometimes direct temp agencies to filter out African Americans or assign work based on gender.

the newspaper executive agreed to Johnson’s demand for a letter promising editorial support in exchange for letting the merger through. The Antitrust Division had been critical of the deal but was overruled by Johnson.

rump has moderated his tone on the AT&T-Time Warner deal. He also appointed transition antitrust experts who are friendlier to corporate consolidation than the Obama administration.

anyone who uses the RNC email for White House work has to forward or copy those communications to the government email system within 20 days.

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Mike Pence made a pitch to congregants for their vote, citing two main reasons to vote for his ticket: the promise to appoint justices to the Supreme Court “who will uphold our constitution and the rights of the unborn” — in other words, someone with conservative views on religious freedom and abortion — and a promise to repeal the Johnson Amendment

When numbers are down there is no “gotcha” response; no senseless finger-pointing.

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When asked about some of the risks cited by other statisticians – the increasing role of the private sector in public data collection, changes in methodologies which could make numbers appear more favorable – Groshen was confident in repeatedly asserting “the BLS is independent of the administration”.

state that “no Federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities”.

simply the defunding of specific statistical programs. This is already under way. Two Republican-sponsored bills are attempting to nullify a 2015 housing regulation aimed at addressing racial segregation in cities such as Baltimore and Chicago, simply by halting data collection

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During the course of their dependency proceedings, however, the children were disenrolled, though their mother was allowed to remain on the rolls

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But now, instead of risking Bismarck, the route could threaten the Standing Rock Sioux.

The pipeline was originally designed to run much farther north — near Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota. But as Bill McKibben wrote in The New Yorker, officials rerouted it when people there raised concerns that it could jeopardize the community's water supply.

many GOP-dominated states are likely to preserve expansion while adding so-called personal responsibility policies that have been proposed in Kentucky and adopted in Arkansas and five other states. Those policies include monthly premiums, copays and work requirements for low-income beneficiaries

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In any election where the outcome was that close, a recount is a virtual certainty.

optical scanners that jammed on election day.

some files apparently had "metadata inconsistencies," tech jargon that the company neither elaborated upon nor clarified, despite Fortune's inquiries

Normally, Dropbox permanently wipes files—eradicating the data from its servers—60 days after a person deletes them, in accordance with the company's privacy policy. Something went wrong, in this case, that prevented the company from following through with the process.

It goes on to particularly underline the need to support Medicaid, which President Donald Trump has suggested could be converted from the current system, in which the U.S. picks up most of the costs, to a block grant that would give the state more freedom to cut costs but also limit federal financial liability.

an online randomized survey (polling 2,167 people), conducted via Amazon Mechanical Turk

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Stopping Bolton—who on Monday suggested aloud that the Russian hacks may have been an Obama administration false-flag operation—should become the top priority

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the similarly hawkish Marco Rubio add up to 51 votes—enough to stifle Trump appointees in the post-filibuster era.

hyperbolic,

"This report assumes a situation that simply doesn’t exist and that no one in Congress advocates."

The new guidelines would cap the public comment section to 30 minutes at Board of Trustees meetings.

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