The measure would stiffen enforcement and require that phone companies offer free consumer tools to identify and block scam calls.
Tim Allen
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U.S. probes 4 automakers in new Takata air bag recall
Audi, Toyota, Honda and Mitsubishi have a potentially deadly type of air bag inflator in older vehicles but haven’t recalled them yet.
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J.K. Rowling draws criticism for transgender comments
The ‘Harry Potter’ author tweeted support for a researcher who lost her job for stating that people cannot change their biological sex.
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Defiant Trump rallies supporters as House impeaches him
He took the stage just minutes before he became the 3rd president in U.S. history to be impeached.
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Trump speaks at swank Republican fundraiser, and his D.C. hotel profits
Advertised rates for a standard room at the Trump International Hotel surged to as high as $6,719 in the weeks leading up to the event.
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Manafort’s N.Y. fraud case tossed over double jeopardy concern
A state judge rules that the criminal case was too similar to one that has already landed President Trump’s former campaign chairman in federal prison.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World, News
Study estimates that half of U.S. adults will be obese by 2030
About 24% will have severe obesity, which is ‘poised to become as prevalent as overall obesity was in the 1990s,’ the authors write.
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Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule makes space debut this week
If the orbital demo goes well, the first Starliner crew could be rocketing to the International Space Station by summer.
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Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot sign deal for 50-50 merger
The agreement creates the world’s fourth-largest automaker with annual sales of 8.7 million cars.
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Johnson claims Brexit mandate with new conservative majority
The prime minister pledges to heal Britain’s divisions over leaving the EU after his gamble on early elections paid off.