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Curtis Tate
Internet piracy bill splits technology, entertainment industries
Legislation to thwart Internet piracy is dividing Capitol Hill lawmakers and has the entertainment industry facing off against the technology industry. At least one major social media website is planning a daylong blackout next week to protest the bill. | 01/11/12 18:57:00 By - Curtis Tate
As Boeing leaves Air Capital, wind energy could provide lift
Wichita, Kan., prides itself as the Air Capital for the multitude of aircraft manufacturers that call it home, but after this week, it will have to contemplate a future without Boeing, the signature company of the city's signature industry. But another potential answer for Wichita is energy, a solution that both Charlotte and Fremont have embraced. And Kansas has one form of energy in abundance: wind. | 01/06/12 17:00:00 By - Curtis Tate
New safety rules don't satisfy truckers or safety advocates
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood laid out rules Thursday on the number of hours that truckers can stay on the road in an effort to curb deadly accidents caused by driver fatigue. However, neither the trucking industry nor safety advocates appeared satisfied. | 12/22/11 18:30:00 By - Curtis Tate
AP opens North Korea news bureau, but celebration will wait
The Associated Press was ready to formally dedicate a new bureau in North Korea's capital this week, giving AP the first permanent bureau operated by a Western news organization in the reclusive country. With the party canceled on news of Kim Jong Il's death, the bureau staff got right to work covering the story. | 12/22/11 16:18:00 By - Curtis Tate
Asian Americans press Army on race bias in private's death
The Army filed charges Wednesday against eight Alaska-based soldiers in the death of a 19-year-old Army private, in a sign that the military is investigating whether racial harassment could have led him to commit suicide. Pvt. Danny Chen's body was found in a guard tower in Afghanistan's Kandahar province in October. | 12/21/11 19:14:00 By - Curtis Tate
Did Penn State violate civil rights laws? Groups urge inquiry
As the U.S. Department of Education investigates whether Penn State University might have broken federal law in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, legal experts say the university also might have violated civil rights laws designed to protect students and others from sex discrimination. | 12/15/11 17:43:00 By - Curtis Tate
Perry ad in Iowa accuses Obama of 'war on religion'
With Texas Gov. Rick Perry struggling to regain traction four weeks before the Iowa caucuses, his presidential campaign is running television ads attacking the Obama administration on gay rights instead of the economy, which tops even socially conservative voters' list of concerns. | 12/07/11 19:25:00 By - Curtis Tate
Railroads, unions reach deal to avoid pre-Christmas strike
The nation's freight railroads and two labor unions representing 26,500 railroad employees reached a tentative agreement Thursday to avoid a strike that threatened to halt shipments of consumer goods three weeks before Christmas. | 12/01/11 23:17:00 By - Curtis Tate
Sandusky scandal's pain extends deep into 'Penn State country'
While most of the media attention in the Penn State child sex abuse scandal has focused on the state's flagship public university, the impact can be felt in the rural communities 40 miles north of State College, where some of the alleged victims of Jerry Sandusky still live. | 11/21/11 00:01:10 By - Curtis Tate
Sandusky's NBC interview possible confession to sex crime under Pa. law
Under Pennsylvania's child protection laws, what Sandusky admitted to in an interview with NBC's Bob Costas could fit the definition of indecent exposure. If children under 16 were involved, it could be a first-degree misdemeanor with a maximum punishment of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. | 11/15/11 17:36:00 By - Curtis Tate
At last home game of season, abuse scandal clouds Penn State's future
A clear, sunny afternoon brightened the somber mood at Beaver Stadium as Penn State played Nebraska in the last home game of the season — and the first in 46 years without legendary head football coach Joe Paterno on the field. | 11/12/11 20:43:00 By - Curtis Tate and Mike Dawson
Penn State officials weren't only people who failed to report Sandusky
While the grand jury investigation into child sexual abuse at Penn State revealed that university authorities had knowledge of crimes allegedly committed by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, it also showed that others knew, too, and didn't call police. | 11/11/11 20:37:00 By - Curtis Tate
Penn State community wonders: What's next?
As students, faculty and alumni process their feelings of shock, sadness and betrayal over a child-sex abuse scandal in the school's legendary football program, the Penn State University community is beginning to ask: What comes next? | 11/10/11 19:45:00 By - Curtis Tate
Coal is king on the rails now, but maybe not forever
A big part of what saved the freight rail industry from disaster lies not far beneath the rolling grasslands of eastern Wyoming. Coal still generates half the country's electricity, but railroads can make money hauling other goods, too, and they aren't spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new facilities to run more coal trains. | 10/31/11 15:39:00 By - Curtis Tate
How railroads came back from the brink and got ahead
More than three decades after the federal government deregulated freight railroads, the industry is enjoying "a new golden age," said Frank Wilner, the author of several books on railroad economics. After being left for dead in the 1970s, railroads reinvested nearly $10 billion in themselves last year, according to industry figures, and they haven't received taxpayer bailouts. | 10/31/11 15:33:00 By - Curtis Tate
FCC aims to bring broadband to millions in rural areas
The Federal Communications Commission said Friday that proposed changes to subsidies for rural telephone service are intended to help customers in remote areas gain access to faster Internet service and better wireless phone service, and some industry groups say that reflects what consumers are choosing already. | 10/28/11 18:16:00 By - Curtis Tate
Ethics panel asks: How to repair college athletics?
After a round of high-profile scandals in college sports this year, including at the University of Miami and the University of North Carolina, an advisory panel said Monday that it would launch a wide review of practices ranging from student athlete scholarships to postseason play. | 10/24/11 19:04:00 By - Curtis Tate
Obama honors citizens 'who stopped to help'
President Barack Obama on Thursday personally thanked what he called "a remarkable group of Americans" for answering the call of service to their fellow citizens. | 10/20/11 18:14:00 By - Curtis Tate
Idaho's Labrador pitches his own immigration solution
With Congress unable to agree on a comprehensive immigration overhaul, and with states taking immigration matters into their own hands, Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho thinks he has an idea that can draw bipartisan support. | 10/18/11 17:40:00 By - Curtis Tate
Gay couples, allies set eyes on ultimate prize: Marriage
Now that the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is history, gay rights advocates and their supporters in Congress and the Obama administration are shifting their focus to repealing state and federal laws that define marriage as between one man and one woman. | 10/03/11 15:45:00 By - Curtis Tate
Pentagon says chaplains may perform gay weddings
The Defense Department issued new guidelines Friday that allow military chaplains to officiate at same-sex weddings, on or off military installations, in states where such weddings are allowed. | 09/30/11 19:31:00 By - Curtis Tate
Census shows more gay couples, but original count was flawed
The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday sharply revised downward its estimate of the number of same-sex households across the country, reflecting confusion over how to accurately count gay and lesbian couples that have gained varying degrees of legal recognition of their partnerships over the past decade. | 09/27/11 19:37:00 By - Curtis Tate
Specter of big defense cuts prompts big worries
After more than doubling in the past 10 years, Pentagon budgets are in for big cuts from Congress in coming years. No one yet knows exactly what will be cut or how deeply the cuts will go, but everyone knows they’re coming. | 09/25/11 00:01:48 By - Rob Hotakainen, Adam Ashton and Curtis Tate
Remember Nemo's sea turtle friend? Now he's endangered
The Obama administration took steps Friday to protect the loggerhead sea turtle, downgrading the status of some populations from threatened to endangered. | 09/16/11 18:11:00 By - Curtis Tate
As Obama pitches jobs bill, voters aren't pressing Congress
Since he announced his job-creation plan last week in a nationally televised address at a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama has hit the road, using stops in crucial swing states to press Americans to speak up. | 09/14/11 18:04:00 By - Curtis Tate and Lesley Clark
GOP wants to give Congress veto on national monuments
Citing state sovereignty and economic hardship, Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that they wanted to give Congress the authority to veto presidents' national monument designations, a power used by nearly every executive since Theodore Roosevelt. | 09/13/11 18:11:00 By - Curtis Tate
Amtrak rolls on 40 years later, destination still uncertain
In 1958, an Interstate Commerce Commission report predicted that the passenger train would vanish by 1970, the victim of a traveling public whose affection had shifted to cars and airplanes. But the passenger train refused to die. | 09/12/11 16:09:00 By - Curtis Tate
In Shanksville, Pa., a memorial to heroism 'that will live forever'
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush praised the 40 passengers and crew of United Flight 93 and their families Saturday, dedicating a memorial to the only hijacked aircraft that didn't reach its intended target on Sept. 11, 2001. | 09/10/11 19:28:00 By - Curtis Tate
Cathedral, long America's spiritual home, out of service for 9/11
The collapse of a large construction crane at the Washington National Cathedral has forced the most of the Sept. 11 anniversary events to relocate to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. | 09/08/11 18:29:00 By - Curtis Tate
Is the post office too big to fail? Maybe not
Talk in recent weeks of post office closings and the elimination of Saturday mail delivery has shifted to a more dire prospect: The entire U.S. Postal Service could go out of business within a year. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the postal service is running out of money and could go into default as soon as next month unless Congress acts, he testified at a Senate hearing Tuesday. | 09/06/11 19:42:38 By - Curtis Tate
In Alaska, earthquakes are a fact of life
When a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the East Coast last week, millions of people felt it. When a 6.8 magnitude quake struck in Alaska's remote Aleutian island chain early Friday, few noticed — though it was about 10 times more powerful. | 09/02/11 19:39:00 By - Curtis Tate
Flight 93 memorial: 10 years later, $10 million short
Of the three memorials that commemorate the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, the Flight 93 National Memorial stands out. I's the only rural site, a world away from the urban bustle that surrounds Ground Zero and the Pentagon. It's the only one Congress has designated as a national park. And it's the only one of the three that isn't yet fully funded. | 09/01/11 16:34:00 By - Curtis Tate
Irene wasn't overhyped for rural areas on East Coast
WASHINGTON — While many in major East Coast cities wondered whether officials over-prepared the public for Hurricane Irene, the answer from the mostly rural areas hardest hit by the storm was unequivocally no. | 08/30/11 19:23:00 By - Curtis Tate and Kate Howard
Irene wasn't overhyped for rural areas on East Coast
While many in major East Coast cities wondered whether officials over-prepared the public for Hurricane Irene, the answer from the mostly rural areas hardest hit by the storm was unequivocally no. | 08/30/11 19:43:07 By - Curtis Tate and Kate Howard
No matter Irene's path, North Carolina leads response
As Hurricane Irene gathers strength in the Caribbean with a U.S. landfall likely over the weekend, North Carolina finds itself once again in the path of a storm, and in the position of first responder. | 08/24/11 17:21:00 By - Curtis Tate
Congress looks for ways to help struggling dairy farmers
With a gallon of milk costing as much as or more than a gallon of gasoline this summer, a consumer scanning the supermarket shelves might think the situation is a cash cow for dairy farmers. | 08/18/11 15:47:00 By - Curtis Tate
Giffords' recovery renews focus on coverage gap for veterans
From the critical moments after she suffered a gunshot wound to the head in January to her triumphant return to Congress last week for a vote on the debt-limit deal, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords owes her recovery in no small part to veterans with similar injuries. | 08/10/11 16:29:00 By - Curtis Tate
Senate leaders reach deal to end FAA stalemate
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday that leaders in Congress had worked out a deal to end a two-week-old partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration that threatened to become the capital's next partisan stalemate. | 08/04/11 16:59:56 By - Curtis Tate
Congress goes home, keeping FAA funding up in the air
Barely a day after the dust cleared from the long, bruising battle over raising the debt ceiling, Democrats and Republicans in Congress launched their next war of words, this time over a once-routine reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration. | 08/03/11 18:26:00 By - Curtis Tate and Daniel Lippman
Battle over coal for China highlights global economic change
When a Seattle-based shipping company announced plans last year for a deepwater cargo port that it promised would create hundreds of jobs, it looked like good news for Bellingham, Wash. But not everyone was happy about what cargo the company had in mind: coal, and potentially 48 million tons of it a year. That coal would end up in China, where it would fuel the blistering growth of America's biggest competitor. | 08/02/11 17:52:00 By - Curtis Tate and John Stark
Debt limit fight brings N.C.'s Ellmers close to GOP leadership
Freshman North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers' tea party supporters expected her to hold the line on cutting spending and reducing debt. In the past few weeks, however, Ellmers has emerged as one of the House leadership's strongest freshman allies in the debate over raising the debt limit. | 07/29/11 11:09:06 By - Curtis Tate
Treaty stuck in Senate could unlock Arctic's riches, panel told
Melting Arctic sea ice presents a wealth of new economic opportunities for the United States, but the nation can't take advantage of them until it joins an international treaty that has languished in the Senate, a panel of military and energy experts told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday. | 07/27/11 18:03:00 By - Curtis Tate
Bipartisan House vote defeats bid to defund ethics office
The House of Representatives on Friday roundly rejected a move to cut the budget of the Office of Congressional Ethics by 40 percent. The amendment had been offered by Rep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat who was investigated last year by the office. | 07/22/11 17:18:00 By - Curtis Tate and Jim Morrill
Bipartisan House vote defeats bid to defund ethics office
Capping a week when Congress could agree on almost nothing else, the House of Representatives today soundly defeated an effort to cut the budget of the Office of Congressional Ethics by 40 percent. | 07/22/11 06:25:01 By - Curtis Tate and Jim Morrill
Constituents getting savvier on debt ceiling
As the end game in the political battle of wills over raising the debt ceiling approaches, the switchboards on Capitol Hill have been lighting up. They reflect the deadlock over the issue between Congress and the White House. | 07/20/11 18:16:00 By - David Goldstein, Curtis Tate and Daniel Lippman
Obama raises $86 million for re-election effort
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee said they've raised more than $86 million in the second quarter this year, far outpacing the combined $35 million that six Republican candidates have raised for 2012. | 07/13/11 18:20:00 By - Curtis Tate and Lesley Clark
House GOP proposes deep cuts to highway, transit funding
A six-year transportation funding bill that Republicans in the House of Representatives outlined Thursday would sharply cut highway and transit funding and seek to curb Amtrak and high-speed rail projects that the Obama administration supports. | 07/07/11 16:54:00 By - Daniel Lippman and Curtis Tate
Northeast, Midwest, California get more high-speed rail funds
The Obama administration parceled out $2 billion Monday for high-speed rail projects in the Northeast, Midwest and California, repurposing a pot of funds rejected in February by Florida's new Republican governor. | 05/09/11 14:55:00 By - Curtis Tate
States vie for money from Florida's canceled high-speed rail project
Despite the efforts by Republican lawmakers to scrap President Barack Obama's funding for high-speed rail projects, 24 states have submitted applications for additional money, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday. | 04/06/11 17:36:39 By - Curtis Tate
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