United States Stories for 2021

A Program for Cheaper Internet for Low-Income Americans Launches Today 101
Plans To Capture CO2 From Coal Plants Wasted Federal Dollars, Watchdog Says 291
US Hits Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases 353
Biden Signs NDAA Relying on Voluntary Private-Sector Cybersecurity Collaboration 24
13 Battery Gigafactories Are Coming To the US By 2025 47
Winter Storms Are Breaking Snow and Temperature Records 97
Virginia Family Gets Keys To Habitat For Humanity's First 3D-Printed Home in the US 33
California is Suing Walmart Over Alleged Improper Disposal of E-waste and Other Hazardous Materials 39
E.O. Wilson, Naturalist Dubbed a Modern-day Darwin, Dies at 92 32
Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan's FTC 14
SEC Rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin Trusts 36
White House Enlists Software Industry To Improve Open-Source Security 63
Potential DOJ Suits Against Apple and Google Delayed Amid Budget Woes 27
FDA Authorizes Second COVID-19 Antiviral Pill 64
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID, SARS Variants 248
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters 77
EV Startup Nikola Agrees To $125 Million Settlement 41
California Approves Dropping Rodenticide On Farallon Islands 116
US Returns $154 Million In Bitcoins Stolen By Sony Employee 37
US, Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault 39
Libraries Enlist States in Fight Over ebook Rules 32
US Population Growth at Lowest Rate in Pandemic's First Year 117
Boeing, Airbus Executives Urge Delay in US 5G Wireless Deployment 82
The US Could Reliably Run On Clean Energy By 2050 214
Despite EU Court Rulings, Facebook Says US Is Safe To Receive Europeans' Data 32
EPA Issues New Rule To Curb Tailpipe Pollution, Fight Climate Change 223
Hospital's Computer System Always Marks Up Costs Automatically, Leaked Records Show 224
US Regulators Flag Climate Change, Stablecoins As Potential Systemic Risks 70
Comcast Will Keep Data Caps Out of the Northeast In 2022 26
US Builds New Software Tool To Predict Actions that Could Draw China's Ire 60
US Airlines Warn 5G Wireless Could Cause Havoc With Flights 89
New York City Is Banning Natural Gas Hookups To Fight Climate Change 456
Vodeo Becomes the First Unionized Games Studio In North America 57
US To Blacklist Eight More Chinese Companies, Including Drone Maker DJI 115
Pelosi Rejects Stock-Trading Ban For Members of Congress 177
US Surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 Deaths 180
Fed's Powell Says He Doesn't See Cryptocurrencies as 'Financial Stability Concern' 66
USPS Built and Secretly Tested a Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting System Before 2020 60
US Opens Probe Into Amazon Warehouse Fatal Collapse in Illinois 129
Ukraine Arrests 51 For Selling Data of 300 Million People In US, EU 11
Biden Will Sign an Executive Order To Move Government Services Online 172
'The New Normal': US Blames This Winter's Severe Tornado's on Climate Change 150
Judges Read Capitol Rioters' Social Media Posts, Gave Them Stricter Sentences 424
FAA Says Lack of Federal Whistleblower Protections Is 'Enormous Factor' Hindering Blue Origin Safety Review 24
'China Will Soon Lead the US in Tech' 289
US Wins Appeal Over Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder 220
Revisiting the 'Tsar Bomba' Nuclear Test 143
NYC, Facing Housing Crisis, Targets Illegal Airbnb Owners 83
'Free PACER' Bill Advances Through Senate Judiciary Unanimously 31
US To Blacklist Chinese AI Company SenseTime Over Xinjiang Ahead of IPO 37
SF Millennium Tower Tilts Quarter Inch In Four Days 62
Biden Wants To Make Federal Government Carbon Neutral by 2050 106
The NIH Director On Why Americans Aren't Getting Healthier, Despite Medical Advances 208
The CIA Is Deep Into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals 39
Darpa Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World's First Warp Bubble 189
Verizon Once Again Expands Its Snoopvertising Ambitions 14
Airplane Landings at Risk of Delays on FAA Move To Ease 5G Risk 42
Senate Confirms FCC Chair Rosenworcel To Another Term, Narrowly Avoiding a Republican Majority 41
Over 200 Papers Quietly Sue Big Tech 44
Biden's Cyber Leaders Go To Silicon Valley for More Help Fighting Hackers 25
Companies Linked To Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight 32
America Tries to Fill 600,000 Vacant Cybersecurity Positions 75
The US Military Has Taken Action Against Ransomware Groups and 'Imposed Costs' 124
US State Department iPhones Hacked With Israeli Company Spyware 40
White House To Unveil Alliance To Curb Human Rights Abuse of Tech 39
FTC Sues To Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Arm 46
The US Crackdown on Chinese Economic Espionage is a Mess 65
US Government Agencies Bought Chinese Surveillance Tech Despite Federal Ban 21
US Confirms Nation's First Case of Omicron Covid Variant In California 116
Biden Administration Issues New Framework for Space Policy, With a Focus on Climate Change 31
Apple Renews Bid To Halt Court-Ordered App Store Change 33
Wanted: A Town Willing to Host a Dump for U.S. Nuclear Waste 335
Biden Administration Makes First Move on Data Privacy 45
'Cyber Grinches' Snatching Toys Should Be Stopped, Lawmakers Say 161
Former Uber Employees Cleared of Illegal Spying 17
Biden Admin Announces Travel Ban for South Africa and 7 Other Countries, Citing New Variant 258
Saving History With Sandbags: Climate Change Threatens the Smithsonian 125
China's New Space Reactor 'Will Be 100 Times More Powerful Than a Similar Device NASA Plans To Put on the Surface of the Moon by 2030' 134
Black Friday is Causing Toxic Traffic Jams at US Ports and Warehouses 78
Verizon and AT&T To Temporarily Turn Down 5G Power To Address FAA Worries 24
Centrist Dems Sink Biden's Nominee for Top Bank Regulator 213
Congress Decimates 911's Digital Upgrade 154
US Blacklists Chinese Quantum Computing Companies 74
US To Require Vaccines For All Border Crossers In January 241
Crypto Oversight Road Map Is Set by US Banking Regulators 10
Moscow Tells 13 Mostly US Tech Firms They Must Set Up in Russia by 2022 147
Samsung Picks Texas Site for $17 Billion Advanced US Chip Plant 75
US Lawmakers Call for Privacy Legislation After Reuters Report on Amazon Lobbying 30
Intel's Expensive New Plan to Upgrade Its Chip Technology - and US Manufacturing 131
CDC Panel Unanimously Endorses Pfizer and Moderna Covid Boosters For All US Adults 168
Pentagon Asks Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for Bids on New Cloud Contracts 14
The Amazon Lobbyists Who Kill US Consumer Privacy Protections 36
Visions of a US Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling 41
Copy of US Constitution Sells for $43.2 Million as Crypto Group DAO Is Outbid 54
Crypto Bid To Buy US Constitution Print Raises Millions 67
US Says Iran-backed Hackers Are Now Targeting Organizations With Ransomware 18
The End of 'Click To Subscribe, Call To Cancel'? One of the News Industry's Favorite Retention Tactics is Illegal, FTC Says 85
Secretive Chinese Committee Draws Up List To Replace US Tech 101
FAA, FCC Are Making 'Progress' on 5G Signal Woes 22
The US Finally Adopts a National Recycling Strategy 94
A Plan To Perfect the New York City Street 70
Crypto Nerds Are Trying To Buy the US Constitution 70
Huawei Recruits Smartphone Partners To Sidestep US Sanctions 30
The US Department of Homeland Security Urges 'Digital Literacy' 56
US Rollout of 5G Frequencies Delayed Over Aviation Safety Concerns. Are They Warranted? 31
The Man Behind the 'Tic-Tac' UFO Videos Claim They've Been Here Since the 1950s 139
America Is Hiring a Record Number of Robots 91
Biden Signs Bill To Secure Telecoms Against National Security Threats 27
US Joins Global Cybersecurity Partnership 16
Justice Department Sues Uber Over Charging Wait-Time Fees for Disabled People 84
Number of Credit Cards in US Hits All-time High 76
The US Treasury Is Buying Private App Data to Target and Investigate People 44
New Bipartisan Bill Takes Aim at Algorithms 173
US Charges Ukrainian, Russian, Over Cyberattack, Seizes $6 Million in Ransom Payments 13
McAfee To Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt 18
CNN: Foreign Hackers Breached Nine Organizations to Steal 'Key Data' from 'Sensitive Targets' 28
FSF Celebrates New Copyright Exemptions, But Renews Call For Repealing all DRM Laws 34
US Passes Massive Infrastructure Bill, Investing in Clean Energy, Electric Cars, and Broadband Internet 157
SolarWinds Investors Allege Board Knew About Cyber Risks 12
Drone Used In Attack On US Electrical Grid Last Year, Report Reveals 54
The US Has Big, New Plans To Pull CO2 Out of the Air 156
US Senate Bill Would Limit Big Tech Mergers 30
LA 'Jetpack Man' Was Probably a Balloon 67
Incoming New York Mayor Eric Adams Vows To Take First Three Paychecks In Bitcoin 59
US and 19 Other Countries Agree To Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad 62
Here's Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard To Find 75
New NYC Mayor Eric Adams Wants the City To Have Its Own Cryptocurrency 59
Google Wants To Work with the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns 51
Cyber Official Warns 'American Way of Life' at Risk From Hackers 42
Biden Administration Blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus Spyware 18
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution In the US 41
US Charging Infrastructure Is Outpacing Forecasts, Study Finds 75
The Free Laptop Program Built Into the Biden Reconciliation Plan 120
Stablecoins Are a Compelling Payment Option, But They Need To Be Regulated, Biden Administration Report Says 49
Biden Says US Will Meet Its Climate Goals, Urges Help for Developing Nations 142
US Telecoms Are Going To Start Physically Removing Huawei Gear 59
US Copyright Office Broadens Exemptions for Repairing Consumer Devices 19
Why America is Experimenting With 'Postal Banking' 140
Did Trump's Truth Social Network Skirt US Securities Law? 158
The US Is Installing New Power- and Accuracy-Increasing Sensors on Its Nuclear Weapons 147
The US Government Wants Signal's Private User Data That It Simply Doesn't Have 61
GAO Recommends Reevaluation of Proposals for $10B NSA Cloud Contract 5
US Says It's Working With Taiwan To Secure Chip Supply Chain 55
US Government Owes Over $100 Million For TSA's Patent Infringement 70
US Climate Credibility on the Line as Biden Heads To COP26 173
Google Warns Customers About Antitrust Bills 42
TikTok Tells US Lawmakers It Does Not Give Info To China 33
150 People Arrested in International Darknet Opioid Probe 30
Tech's Message To the Hill: We're Not Facebook 43
Biden Appoints Jessica Rosenworcel To Officially Lead the FCC 73
Apple Very Likely to Face DOJ Antitrust Suit 36
How Misinformation - and One Facebook Group - Threatened a Federal Investment in Montana 248
Should the US Fund a 'National Cloud' for AI Research to Compete With China? 48
Huawei, SMIC Suppliers Received Billions Worth of Licenses For US Goods 14
Fed To Ban Policymakers From Owning Individual Stocks 68
Gov. Parson Doubles Down on Push To Prosecute Reporter Who Found Security Flaw in State Site 185
Micron To Build $7 Billion Plant in Japan To Expand DRAM Production 29
New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts 45
The FDA Wants You To Be Able To Buy a Hearing Aid Without a Prescription 76
New York AG Orders Two Unregistered Crypto Lenders To Shut Down 26
International 'US Cyber Games' Competition Seeks Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts 23
American Bumblebees Have Disappeared From 8 States and Could Face Extinction 131
Americans Perceive a Rise in Extreme Weather, Pew Finds 91
US Govt Reveals Three More Ransomware Attacks on Water Treatment Plants This Year 10
SEC Said To Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs As Deadline Looms 28
Biden Administration Plans For Massive Expansion of Wind Farms Off US Coasts 296
Aspirin Use To Prevent 1st Heart Attack or Stroke Should Be Curtailed, US Panel Says 87
US Overtakes China as Biggest Bitcoin Mining Hub After Beijing Ban 46
Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes With Maintenance Issues To Fly 67
Pentagon Says Hypersonic Weapons Are Too Expensive 95
A Record Number of Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs, Empowered by New Leverage 368
Florida Judge Rules Section 230 Bars Defamation Claim Against the Wikimedia Foundation 72
3 Degrees Warmer, with Twice as Many 100-Degree Days: How Climate Change Will Affect Texas 218
White House Weighs Wide-Ranging Push For Crypto Oversight 50
US Department of Justice Creates Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit 65
WSU Will Lead $125 Million Global Project To Find, Analyze Animal Viruses 34
Hackers of SolarWinds Stole Data On US Sanctions Policy, Intelligence Probes 12
Mnuchin Says Crypto Stablecoins 'Shouldn't Be Like Casino Chips' 55
Taiwan's TSMC, After US Request, Says It Won't Leak Sensitive Info 41
Apple and Google Under Antitrust Scrutiny in Japan for Mobile OS 9
US To Tell Critical Rail, Air Companies To Report Hacks, Name Cyber Chiefs 23
US Presses Crypto Exchanges To Block Ransomware Profits 28
The Nation's Largest Public Library System Is Ending Late Fees Forever 135
Ransomware Bill Would Give Victims 48 Hours To Report Payments 89
US Lawmakers Demand Facebook Probes; Whistleblower Says Children Harmed 100
FCC Plans To Rein In 'Gateway' Carriers That Bring Foreign Robocalls To US 63
Oracle Appeal Over JEDI Contract Turned Away by Supreme Court 14
McKinsey Never Told the FDA It Was Working for Opioid Makers While Also Working for the Agency 34
Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators 151
How Miami's Mayor Hopes to Build a New (and Crypto-Friendly) Silicon Valley 80
More Vaccinations, Less Pushback: America's Vaccine Mandates Are Working, Says Public Health Professor 308
California Becomes First State To Require Covid-19 Vaccination For Students 232
Utilities Took Public Money, Gave CEOs Millions, and Then Turned People's Lights Off During the Pandemic 134
A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause 'Havana Syndrome' 118
US Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions 86
US Attempts To Slow China's Innovation Rate 137
Phone Companies Must Now Block Carriers That Didn't Meet FCC Robocall Deadline 49
FTC Weighs New Online Privacy Rules 12
China's Growing Power Crunch Threatens More Global Supply Chain Chaos 146
131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest 92
US To Open Program To Replace Huawei Equipment In US Networks 31
US Agrees Not To Pursue Fraud Charges Against Huawei CFO 90
US Space Force Awards $87.5 Million To Rocket Lab, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA for Next-gen Rocket Testing 24
When the FBI Seizes Your Messages from Big Tech, You May Not Know for Years 91
US Military Seeks Comments on Its Plan to Build a Small, Transportable Nuclear Reactor 240
Report: In 2017 America's CIA Plotted to Kidnap Julian Assange From Ecuador 149
After 47 Years, US Power Company Abandons Still-Unfinished $6 Billion Nuclear Power Plant 206
Old Coal Plant Is Now Mining Bitcoin For a Utility Company 59
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou To Be Released After Agreement With US In Wire Fraud Case 109
Americans Ramp Up Google Searches for Covid Tests Amid Scarcity 50
White House Weighs Invoking Defense Law To Get Chip Data 138
California Makes Zero-emission Autonomous Vehicles Mandatory by 2030 138
Hackers Breached Computer Network At Key US Port But Did Not Disrupt Operations 17
'Facebook Is What's Wrong With America' 208
New York Passes Sweeping Bills To Improve Conditions for Delivery Workers 22
The Imaginary Rocket Driving a Small-Town Spaceport 45
CDC Panel Endorses Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Shots For People 65 and Older 84
Tech Firms' Nightmare: Vanishing Green Cards 111
The Fed Is Evaluating Whether To Launch a Digital Currency and In What Form 53
US Committee Is Reviewing Zoom's $14.7 Billion Deal For Five9 On National-Security Grounds 11
Crypto Channels Targeted in Biden's Fight Against Ransomware 19
Senate Democrats Call on FTC To Fix Data Privacy 'Crisis' 33
US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses That of 1918 Pandemic 228
Sequoias Are Being Wrapped In Foil Blankets To Protect Against Wildfires 76
US, EU Pledge 30% Cut In Methane Emissions To Limit Global Heating 29
FDA Panel Rejects Plan To Administer Pfizer's COVID-19 Booster Doses To General Public 151
States Act Against Celsius Network for Unregistered Products 20
FTC Releases Findings on How Big Tech Eats Little Tech 17
US To Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions 27
Congress Will Investigate Claims That Instagram Harms Teens 50
FCC Wants Landlords To Stop Screwing Up Your Internet 90
US Fines Former NSA Employees Who Provided Hacker-for-Hire Services To UAE 39
Biden To Tap Privacy Hawk For FTC Post 35
As 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Surges, a Third of US Users Fall Behind on Payments 163
Can the US Create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs With a Civilian Climate Corps? 129
Some 9/11 News Coverage is Lost. Blame Adobe Flash 117
Senator Wyden Reflects on 9/11's Legacy: Mass Surveillance 26
20 Years After the World Trade Center Attack, a Nation Remembers 197
Wide-Ranging SolarWinds Probe Sparks Fear in Corporate America 22
Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub Sue New York City Over Legislation on Commission Caps 35
Microsoft Gives Up Predicting When Its US Offices Will Fully Reopen 104
Amazon To Cover 100% of College Tuition for US Hourly Employees 200
California Aims To Ban Recycling Symbols on Things That Aren't Recyclable 214
Biden Offers Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Energy 263
Is Lending Your Bitcoins a Security? 61
LAPD Officers Told To Collect Social Media Data on Every Civilian They Stop 195
SEC Threatens To Sue Coinbase Over Crypto Lending Programme 30
Facebook Admits 'Trust Deficit' As It Looks To Launch Digital Wallet 61
Poorly Devised Regulation Lets Firms Pollute With Abandon 60
California Bill Takes Aim at Amazon's Productivity-tracking Algorithms 41

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