Politics Stories for 2017

Trump Wants Postal Service To Charge 'Much More' For Amazon Shipments 338
Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama 168
Two Romanians Charged With Hacking Washington DC Police Surveillance Cameras Days Before Trump's Inauguration 47
People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking 368
Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook 158
Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use 360
Russia's Putin Calls For Web Activities of Some Firms To Be Monitored 57
UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program 300
Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' 121
How Facebook's Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda 65
Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation 350
New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms 183
US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack 159
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False 363
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says 278
Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Software Ban 185
Trump Administration Prohibits CDC Policy Analysts From Using the Words 'Science-Based' 458
CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report 535
The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules 591
FCC's Own Chief Technology Officer Warned About Net Neutrality Repeal 152
Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services 208
Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit 254
No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman 177
What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? 130
Trump Signs Into Law US Government Ban on Kaspersky Lab Software 140
Paris Summit Finds New Money, Tech To Fight Climate Change 203
President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon 307
German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying 75
Health Secretary Hits Out at Facebook's New App, Says 'Stay Away From My Kids' 113
Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies 481
FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' 347
Valuable Republican Donor Database Breached -- By Other Republicans 73
US 'Orchestrated' Russian Spies Scandal, Says Kaspersky Founder 141
Democrat Senators Introduce National Data Breach Notification Law 162
FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media 193
White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff 113
Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal 308
'Complicit' Is The Word Of The Year In 2017, Dictionary.com Says 68
Google Seeks To Defuse Row With Russia Over Website Rankings 71
Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai 174
Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips 103
Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed 279
Trump Administration Tightens Scrutiny of Skilled Worker Visa Applicants 263
The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers 578
Y Combinator Cuts Ties With Peter Thiel After Ending Part-Time Partner Program 67
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
Federal Extreme Vetting Plan Castigated By Tech Experts 160
FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules 116
Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe 231
About 15 Percent of US Agencies Detected Kaspersky Software on Networks 81
The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Voting With Paper 219
China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform it Bans at Home 103
Afghanistan Clarifies It Will Not Block WhatsApp, Telegram 18
The US Has Destroyed A Critical Sea Ice-Measuring Satellite 283
Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit 481
Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia 176
Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts 370
Facebook Ends 'Dark Posts' -- All Ads Will Be Visible To The Public 68
Kaspersky CEO Says Hack Claims Cutting US Cyber Security Sales 69
Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region 579
US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped 431
McAfee Says It No Longer Will Permit Government Source Code Reviews 79
San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia 226
Oracle, Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook Blow Even More Cash on Lobbying 73
Congress Opens Probe Into FBI's Handling of Clinton Email Investigation 390
Tech Firms Seek Washington's Prized Asset: Top-Secret Clearances 147
Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek 320
Senators Announce New Bill That Would Regulate Online Political Ads 232
Amazon Spends $350K On Seattle Mayor's Race 62
Tribal 'Sovereign Immunity' Patent Protection Could Be Outlawed 92
Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election 665
'Significant' Number of Equifax Victims Already Had Info Stolen, Says IRS 105
Twitter Is Crawling With Bots and Lacks Incentive To Expel Them 95
Despite Sanctions, Russian Organisations Acquire Microsoft Software 44
Israeli Spies 'Watched Russian Agents Breach Kaspersky Software' 194
North Korean Hackers Stole U.S.-South Korean Military Plans, Lawmaker Says 110
Google Uncovers Russia-Bought Ads On YouTube, Gmail and Other Platforms 345
Office Depot, Best Buy Pull Kaspersky Products From Shelves 155
SpaceX's Mars Vision Puts Pressure on NASA's Manned Exploration Programs 142
US Senate Panel Approves Self-Driving Car Legislation 123
Artificial Intelligence Has 'Great Potential, But We Need To Steer Carefully,' LinkedIn Co-founder Says 73
US Studying Ways To End Use of Social Security Numbers For ID 311
UK Government Could Imprison People For Looking At Terrorist Content 271
Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads 252
Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair 101
Google Investigates Facebook's Russian Political Operatives, Will Address Congressmen 93
Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them 289
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims 428
President Donald Trump and His Daughter Ivanka To Unveil a New Federal Computer Science Initiative With Major Tech Backers 260
Democrats Ask FEC To Create New Rules To Keep Foreign Influence Off Social Media Ads 195
Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites 332
Trump's Officials Suggest Re-Negotiating The Paris Climate Accord 244
Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators 232
More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting 350
Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' 151
ISPs Claim a Privacy Law Would Weaken Online Security, Increase Pop-Ups 86
Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians 308
Kaspersky Software Banned From US Government Systems Over Concerns About Russia 91
Trump Administration Sued Over Phone Searches at US Borders 138
Department of Energy Invests $50 Million To Improve Critical Energy Infrastructure Security 51
Equifax Lobbied For Easier Regulation Before Data Breach 104
Facebook Sold Ads To Russian-Linked Accounts During Election 138
The Trump Administration Has Announced the End of DACA -- Unless Congress Can Act To Save It 817
IP Lawyer Who Represented TiVo Is Trump's Pick As USPTO Chief 67
'US Intelligence Agencies Should Put Up Or Shut Up With Kaspersky Rumors' 115
DC Judge Approves Government Warrant For Data From Anti-Trump Website 142
Justice Department Walks Back Demand For Information On Anti-Trump Website 130
US Military To Create Separate Unified Cyber Warfare Command 56
Google Explains Why It Banned the App For Gab, a Right-Wing Twitter Rival 530
Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post 420
Ukraine Hacker Cooperating With FBI In Russia Probe, Says Report 215
After Losing Support, Trump's Business and Manufacturing Councils Are Shutting Down 642
Intel CEO Exits President Trump's Manufacturing Council 263
Trump Can Block People On Twitter If He Wants, Administration Says 214
Russian Group That Hacked DNC Used NSA Attack Code In Attack On Hotels 197
FCC Extends Net Neutrality Comment Period By Two Weeks 22
Maybe Americans Don't Need Fast Home Internet Service, FCC Suggests 378
Leaked Federal Climate Report Finds Link Between Climate Change, Human Activity 452
Forget the Russians: Corrupt, Local Officials Are the Biggest Threat To Elections 287
Net Neutrality Rollback Faces New Criticism From US Congress -- And 16 Million Comments 147
FBI Tracked 'Fake News' Believed To Be From Russia On Election Day 352
Silicon Valley Says Trump Plan To Reduce Immigration Will Hurt Economy 273
The FCC Is Full Again, With Three Republicans and Two Democrats 81
UK Security Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Outbreak Arrested in US 176
EPA Reverses Course on Ozone Rule 53
Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role 463
Facebook Funds 'Defending Digital Democracy' Initiative At Harvard 90
US Voting Machines Cracked In 90 Minutes At DEFCON 171
Congress Asks US Agencies For Kaspersky Lab Cyber Documents 28
Calibri Font Plays Its Role: Pakistan Now Sans Sharif as Prime Minister is Disqualified 93
Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests 330
FCC Is Not Complying With Freedom of Information Act Requests, Alleges Lawsuit 105
Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops 517
Apple-Supplier Foxconn To Announce New Factory in Wisconsin in Much-needed Win For Trump and Scott Walker 131
Donald Trump Says US Military Will Not Allow Transgender People To Serve 904
Democrats Propose New Competition Laws That Would 'Break Up Big Companies If They're Hurting Consumers' 332
Sean Spicer Resigns as White House Press Secretary After Objecting To Scaramucci Hire 543
Russia Says in Talks With US To Create Cyber Security Working Group 158
US Ends Controversial Laptop Ban On Flights From Middle East 79
US House Panel Approves Broad Proposal On Self-Driving Cars 191
Oregon Passes First Statewide Bicycle Tax In Nation 708
FCC Refuses To Release Text of More Than 40,000 Net Neutrality Complaints 64
Should We Ignore the South Carolina Election Hacking Story? 139
Crypto-Bashing Prime Minister Argues The Laws Of Mathematics Don't Apply In Australia 330
Y Combinator Announces Funding For UBI-Supporting Political Candidates 195
Are America's Non-Compete Laws Too Strict? 167
In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country 996
US Government Crackdown Threatens Kaspersky's American Dream 139
Afghan Girls Robotics Team Allowed To Enter U.S. For Competition 50
Congress Seeks To Outlaw Cyber Intel Sharing With Russia 179
Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France 253
Former Astronaut Julie Payette To Be Canada's Next Governor General 109
Kaspersky Lab Says It Has Become Pawn in US-Russia Geopolitical Game 172
Newspapers To Bid For Antitrust Exemption To Tackle Google and Facebook 116
Trump Proposes Joint 'Cyber Security Unit' With Russia, Then Quickly Backs Away From It 389
Seattle City Council Unanimously Approves Income Tax For the Rich 486
Trump Administration Officially Delays 'Startup Visa' Rule 223
Hackers Targeting US Nuclear Power Plants, Report Finds 91
White House Could Use AT&T/Time Warner Deal As 'Leverage' Against CNN 302
YouTube Stars Defend Net Neutrality In Open Letter To the FCC 48
Privacy Watchdog Sues Trump's Election Committee Over Voter Data 343
Mark Zuckerberg Doubles Down On Universal Basic Income, Calls It a 'Bipartisan Issue' 472
CNN Warns It May Expose An Anonymous Critic If He Ever Again Publishes Bad Content 944
Afghan Girl Roboticists Denied US Visas 399
US Government Seeks To Intervene in Apple's EU Tax Appeal 75
Russia Behind Cyber-attack, Says Ukraine's Security Service 88
US Lifts Laptop Restriction For Flights From Abu Dhabi 30
Despite Hacking Charges, US Tech Industry Fought To Keep Ties To Russia Spy Service 69
Tom Wheeler Defends Title II Rules, Accuses Pai of Helping Monopolists 134
Trump Picks Republican To Fill Empty Commissioner Seat At FCC 71
US Senators Seek Military Ban on Kaspersky Lab Products Amid FBI Probe 96
Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States 420
Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments 298
FBI Interviews Employees of Russia-Linked Cyber Security Firm Kaspersky Lab 43
President Trump Attacks Amazon, Incorrectly Claiming That It Owns The Washington Post For Tax Purposes 426
Blue Origin To Build Its BE-4 Rocket Engine In Alabama, Creating Hundreds of Jobs 53
New Study Explains Why Trump's 'Sad' Tweets Are So Effective 272
The High-Tech Jobs That Created India's Gilded Generation Are Disappearing 165
Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal 572
Wireless and Drone Execs Praised President Trump as He Pledged To Cut Down Regulations 94
California May Restore Broadband Privacy Rules Killed By Congress and Trump 85
Trump Promises a Federal Technology Overhaul To Save $1 Trillion 381
Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration 329
198 Million Americans Hit By 'Largest Ever' Voter Records Leak 119
Putin Claims Russia Proposed a Cyber War Treaty In 2015 But the Obama Admin Ignored Them 193
Trump Orders Government To Stop Work On Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later 460
Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump 350
A 12-Month Campaign of Fake News To Influence Elections Costs $400K, Says Report 175
Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People 709
Russian Cyber Hacks On US Electoral System Far Wider Than Previously Known 520
'COVFEFE Act' Would Make Social Media a Presidential Record 322
Former FBI Director Predicts Russian Hackers Will Interfere With More Elections 506
The US Can't Leave The Paris Climate Deal Until 2020 403
Delays In Unlocking Cellphones Seized In Inauguration Day Protests? 163
British PM Seeks Ban On Encryption After Terror Attack 340
Pirate Bay Founder: We've Lost the Internet, It's All About Damage Control Now 189
AT&T Uses Forced Arbitration To Overcharge Customers, Senators Say 165
Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament 493
Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press 559
US Spy Chief Reverses Course, Will Not Say How Many Americans Caught in NSA Surveillance 146
The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey 489
Facebook Unveils New Tools To Help Elected Officials Reach Constituents 52
Americans From Both Political Parties Overwhelmingly Support Net Neutrality, Poll Shows 245
Edward Snowden On Trump Administration's Recent Arrest of an Alleged Journalistic Source 342
Trump Nominates Lawyer To Lead FBI 368
Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? 390
DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media 241
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election 456
Trump Wants To Modernize Air Travel By Turning Over Control To the Big Airlines 341
Congressman Proposes Organizations Should Be Allowed To 'Hack Back' 189
Putin Now Argues Russia Could've Been Framed For Election Meddling By The CIA 455
FCC Seeks To Increase ISP Competition In Apartment Buildings 67
Trump Misunderstood MIT Climate Research, University Officials Say 361
61 Mayors Commit To Adopt, Honor and Uphold Paris Climate Accord After US Pulls Out 247
Trump Announces US Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord 1109
Putin Hints At US Election Meddling By 'Patriotically Minded' Russians 195
Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation 524
Elon Musk Joins CEOs Calling For US To Stay in Paris Climate Deal 304
Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources 737
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? 275
How Facebook Praises and Pressures a Country's Leader To Get Exactly What It Wants 24
Is China Outsmarting America in AI? 163
India Tech Giant Warns Trump's 'Radical Shift' to Hurt Industry 295
US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country 498
Investigation Demanded Over Fake FCC Comments Submitted By Dead People 140
Hackers Have Targeted Both the Trump Organization And Democrat Election Data 232
Egypt Blocks 21 Websites For 'Terrorism' And 'Fake News' 55
US Intelligence Community Has Lost Credibility Due To Leaks 339
The Trump Administration Wants To Be Able To Track and Hack Your Drone 216
US International Tourism Market Share Is Falling Under Trump 429
Republicans Want To Leave You Voicemail -- Without Ever Ringing Your Cellphone 443
FCC Won't Punish Stephen Colbert For Controversial Trump Insult 305
President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error 356
Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? 469
Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago 327
Justice Department Appoints Former FBI Director Robert Mueller As Special Counsel For Russia Investigation 606
The Republican Push To Repeal Net Neutrality Will Get Underway This Week 141
Gizmodo Went Phishing With the Trump Team -- Will They Catch a Charge? 122
FCC Suspends Net Neutrality Comments, As Chairman Pai Mocks 'Mean Tweets' 184
Nuclear Experts Form International 'Nuclear Crisis Group' 63
Expiring Section 702 of FISA Helped US Conclude Russia Hacked Election To Help Trump, NSA Chief Says 390
Hackers Came, But the French Were Prepared 286
IT Worker Who Trained H-1B-Visa-Holding Replacement Aims For Congress 134
Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey 810
Officials Fear Russia Could Try To Target United States Through Kaspersky AV 173
Pepe the Frog Is Dead 358
Facebook Takes Out Full-page Newspaper Ads To Help UK Citizens Detect Fake New 82
EPA Dismisses Half the Scientists on Its Major Review Board 279
John Oliver Gets Fired Up Over Net Neutrality, Causes FCC's Site To Temporarily Crash 153

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