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Sixth Circuit panel rejected challenges by numerous municipalities to a 2019 order by the Federal Communications Commission non cash contributions required by cable franchisees qualify as franchise fees subject to the federal Cable Act’s 5 percent cap.

UCLA Events that have shaped the history of Asian Americans include the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Philippine American War and the Vietnam War. Cheryl Cheng | May 6, 2021 Since last spring, when former President Trump began referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu,” there has been an alarming increase of anti-Asian violence. Hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders ha...

Jacksonville native first major female American diplomat Tom Emery, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 Kneeling before the tomb of a Danish war hero of 1895, Ruth Bryan Owen, first diplomatic minister of the United States, places a wreath and an American flag before the headstone of the patriotic shrine. The flag of Denmark flies overhead as a Danish Red Cross nurse (right) watches the ceremony.Getty Images Show MoreShow Less 2of9 Eleanor Roosevelt is pictured with her house guest, Ruth...

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | New online, digital code fails to empower users Published Mar 2, 2021, 10:16 am IST Updated Mar 2, 2021, 10:16 am IST Fake news is a significant reason that media literacy has emerged strongly in the education curricula around the world  If the government’s intent is to provide more rights to its people, it must help soothe the nerves of people who are now confused about what to say on the social media. (Representational image) The new Information and Technology...

Why the 19th Amendment Did Not Guarantee All Women the Right to Vote Despite the adoption of the 19th Amendment, many women of color, immigrant women and poorer women continued to face barriers at the polls. Author: Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images Despite the adoption of the 19th Amendment, many women of color, immigrant women and poorer women continued to face barriers at the polls. With the certification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920, women secur...

UpdatedFri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:30 am ET Reply Elicia Pegues Spearman, general counsel and vice president for human resources at Quinnipiac University (Quinnipiac University / Autumn Driscoll) Antoinette (Toni) Bush, executive vice president and global head of government affairs for News Corp HAMDEN, CT – Antoinette (Toni) Bush, executive vice president and global head of government affairs for News Corp, and Elicia Pegues Spearman, general counsel and vice president for human resources at Qu...

Gobindram Watumull and his wife Ellen. | A clipping from St Louis Post Dispatch, October 19, 1947. In 1865, German botanist William Hillebrand travelled to India with the intention of finding “East Indian” labour for the sugar plantations of Hawaii, where he lived and worked. Instead, he returned with plants and birds of breath-taking variety: crows, finches, the Chinese quail, Mongolian pheasants, the Indian sparrow and common mynah. By 1879, the mynah was a familiar spe...

BOSTON (CN) — A Maine law designed to prevent cable companies from relegating public-access channels to “digital Siberia” came under attack Thursday from a group of cable operators who told the First Circuit that it violates federal requirements.   “Cable operators don’t like these channels because they don’t make any money from them, and they’ve done everything possible to make them unpopular so maybe someday they won’t have to carry them anymore,” Christopher Taub of the ...