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On Monday, 16 leading press freedom groups, civil liberties organizations and labor unions urged the Federal Communications Commission not to move forward with plans to loosen media ownership limits before it fully assesses the negative impacts media consolidation has had and will have on local news and information in theContinue Reading

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Melissa Parke, the Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, attended the 80th Hiroshima Peace Memorial Commemoration today alongside survivors of the first ever nuclear attack that killed more than 140,000 people, including 38,000 children.The survivors, or hibakusha as they are known inContinue Reading

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Eight More Palestinians Starve to Death as Netanyahu Plans to Fully Occupy Gaza Strip, Mike Johnson Visits Illegal West Bank Settlement After Israeli Forces Kill Another U.S. Citizen, Netanyahu’s Government Votes Unanimously to Remove Attorney General Prosecuting Corruption, Over 40 Arrested Outside The Traitor International Hotel in NYC Protesting Israel’sContinue Reading

Shira Perlmutter Seeks Emergency Injunction Pending Appeal, Says Library of Congress Staff ‘Continue to Recognize’ Her As Register

Right on cue, fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter has filed for an emergency injunction pending appeal that would, among other things, enable her to resume leading the Copyright Office. Perlmutter and her legal team submitted the corresponding motion yesterday, after a federal judge closed out July by rejecting the sought injunction…Continue Reading