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— G.K. Chesterton

Selected stories published by The Associated Press

Regulators may look over the shoulder of predictive markets

WASHINGTON — The rising popularity of markets where guesses are wagered on the outcome of everything from presidential elections to celebrity marriages has led to a situation that, well, many had predicted.

Jarden Zinc Products lobbies Congress to keep the 1-cent coin from going extinct

WASHINGTON — The U.S. penny is not what it appears to be, and some in Congress would like to see it change further, if not disappear entirely.

Footwear industry cobbles plan to end shoe tax

WASHINGTON — Footwear makers and retailers are trying to stomp out a Depression-era U.S. government shoe tax, a move they say could save American consumers hundreds of millions of dollars annually and kick-start relatively flat footwear sales.

Musicians campaign for free Internet

WASHINGTON — Sensing a revolution in the way Internet traffic is managed, rock and roll musicians find themselves in the unusual position of defending the status quo.

AT&T, Sprint Spat Over Fees Goes to FCC

WASHINGTON — Contract battles with phone companies are no fun _ just ask anyone who's tried to get out of one. But when phone companies tussle over terms of contracts they have with each another, those fights don't just get heated, they get kicked up to federal regulators to referee.

IBM Subpoenaed Over Contract

IBM and some of its employees received subpoenas from a federal grand jury seeking testimony and documents relating to a contract it sought with the Environmental Protection Agency, the company said yesterday.

Selected stories published by VoxPopuli

With federal eviction moratorium expiring, thousands Central FL residents face homelessness, uncertainty

With the federal eviction moratorium expiring Saturday, housing advocates, government officials, community activists and others expect it will have a devastating impact on thousands of residents in Orange County and across Florida unable to pay their rent — potentially forcing many out into the streets or into substandard housing.

FDLE: ‘Concluded all tasks’ in Groveland Four investigation for exoneration, ‘judicial circuit’ will now review

Four African American men wrongly accused of a crime 70 years ago were pardoned two years ago but their families want exoneration. They may be one step closer: the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said Wednesday it will forward information in its investigation to a judicial circuit for review.

Study: Most FL vote-by-mail ballots flagged for problems in Nov. election cast by young, first-time and minority voters

Nearly three-quarters of Floridians whose mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 general election were initially flagged for some problem — such as mismatched or missing signatures — were able to correct or “cure” their ballots in time so they could be counted, a new study found. However, it also found that the majority of vote-by-mail ballots flagged for rejection were cast by younger, Black, Hispanic and first-time voters.

Selected stories published by FCW/GCN

Kentucky uses health network to divert 'frequent fliers' from ERs

Like many states, Kentucky has been grappling with a disproportionate level of spending used to provide care to a tiny group of patients — the 1 percent or so who overuse hospital emergency rooms. Last year, state officials decided to do something about it.

Collaboration in the Corridor: State Department site helps staff connect

Before the State Department’s internal social networking site, Corridor, was launched three years ago, it wasn’t easy for the agency’s employees to find a particular skill or language expertise among their nearly 70,000 colleagues. Instead, they called up who they thought could help them.

Fixing a communications breakdown

Although the lack of interoperability — the ability of first responders and others from different agencies or jurisdictions to communicate with one another — has been a major obstacle for the public safety community for decades, the scale of the Sept. 11 attacks raised the issue to a national level never before seen.

Selected stories published by Communications Daily

DOJ Argues Plaintiffs Lack Standing in NSA Internet Surveillance; ACLU Says It's Illegal

RICHMOND, Virginia — The Wikimedia Foundation and other plaintiffs challenging NSA's "upstream" surveillance program are engaged in "pure speculation" when they say the government is scooping up vast amounts of internet communications as it targets non-U.S. persons during investigations, said a DOJ attorney Thursday in oral argument in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

FAA Has 181,000 Drone Registrations so Far, but Privacy Concerns Emerge

LAS VEGAS — Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta said 181,061 people have registered their small drones with the agency since Dec. 21 when the new federal registration system was created, speaking Wednesday at CES.

Apple/FBI iPhone Fight Likely Headed to High Court, Experts Predict

The showdown between Apple and the FBI over unlocking an iPhone used by one of the alleged two shooters in the Dec. 2 San Bernardino, California, terror attacks (see 1602190057) is headed to a federal court hearing March 22. But experts in interviews said they expect this case to be drawn out, possibly reaching the Supreme Court, because they don't see either side backing down, nor do they see any chance for compromise unless Congress works out a legislative solution.