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A significant number of individuals who authored or contributed to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 have been nominated, appointed, or confirmed to roles in the current Trump administration, inc...
The federal government does not have a blanket technical backdoor into modern end‑to‑end encrypted apps; telecommunications carriers remain required to provide readable content when they already have ...
U.S. law has no single nationwide rule forcing ISPs to retain specific browsing logs for a fixed time or to hand them over without legal process; retention periods vary by company and jurisdiction, an...
Project 2025 is a 900‑page conservative blueprint, led by the Heritage Foundation and former Trump officials, that proposes sweeping reorganization of the executive branch and many policies critics ca...
The available documents and analyses show , leaving that dimension largely undocumented in the public record. Federal and civil‑society reports indicate that people of color and women own a small frac...
No single authoritative source in the provided reporting says that every NPR and PBS member station is independently incorporated as a 501(c). Reporting and agency summaries show member stations are r...
ISPs in the United States can sometimes block or be required to block specific traffic, but whether they can lawfully . Federal court decisions weakening national net neutrality protections in early 2...
Releasing someone’s text messages without their consent can trigger , expose the releaser to statutory penalties and fines, and implicate a separate regulatory regime that treats certain texts as call...
Several authors of Project 2025 now occupy senior roles in the federal government: Russell Vought is serving as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Brendan Carr is leading the Federal Com...
A broad constellation of civil lawsuits — largely brought by state attorneys general, advocacy groups, and international civil-society coalitions — has targeted President Joe Biden and his administrat...
Major systematic reviews and expert bodies find no conclusive evidence that 5G-frequency radiofrequency (RF) fields, at exposure levels experienced by the public, cause cancer; WHO/IARC and national a...
Major U.S. federal resources require ISPs to disclose network-management and commercial practices under the FCC’s Internet Freedom rule (47 CFR § 8.1) and the FCC maintains an ISP disclosures portal w...
To confirm whether your local NPR/PBS member station is a tax-deductible 501(c) in 2025, the quickest reliable checks are: ask the station or its website for its tax identification and a donor receipt...
Two clear paths exist for online product-return disputes: file with the Better Business Bureau (a non‑government intermediary that documents and mediates consumer complaints) and file with federal con...
Recent FCC rulemaking and legal challenges are reopening the path for further consolidation in U.S. broadcast media: the FCC launched a new review of ownership rules in September 2025 and is seeking p...
The federal government did not formally “ban” Jimmy Kimmel, but the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, publicly urged broadcasters to stop airing his ABC show after...
Federal regulators have recently moved parts of complaints about broadcast coverage back into formal channels: the FCC’s Media and Enforcement Bureaus reinstated complaints against ABC-, NBC- and CBS‑...
ISPs in the U.S. can collect, log and sometimes sell or share device‑level and browsing metadata unless restricted by state law or specific federal rule changes; several sources report rollbacks or ga...
Congress, federal agencies, and outside experts are actively advancing multiple, competing paths to change Section 230 in 2025: bipartisan draft bills to “sunset” the law, Administration and DOJ propo...
Late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel mix satire, personal opinion and factual claims; that mix has prompted fact‑checking and corporate responses—most recently ABC suspended Kimmel after his Sept. 17, 2...