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The Latest: Victims ID’d in Maryland newspaper shooting

Officials have released the names of the five people killed in a shooting at a Maryland newspaper. Lt. Ryan Frashure of Anne Arundel County Police read the names at a news conference Thursday night, hours after the shooting at The Capital Gazette. A law enforcement official says the suspect in the Annapolis, Maryland, newspaper shooting has been identified as Jarrod W. Ramos. …read more […]

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U.S. government watchdog examines oversight of AT&T’s emergency broadband contract

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Inspector General has opened an audit into the federal government’s supervision of a multi-billion dollar contract granted to AT&T Inc, the world’s largest telecommunications company, to build a long-awaited nationwide broadband network for emergency responders. Carol Rice, assistant inspector general for audit and evaluation, said in a memo published on May 3 this year that her office was reviewing how well the department’s First Responder Network Authority, also known as FirstNet, was carrying out its mandate to create and run a new national emergency responders network. …read more […]

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California lawmakers approve data-privacy bill opposed by Silicon Valley

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed data privacy legislation aimed at giving consumers more control over how companies collect and manage their personal information, a proposal that Google and other big companies had opposed as too burdensome.

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