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Federal Communications Commission Seeks Feedback on Straight-To-Voicemail Tactics By Telemarketers, Debt Collectors

- June 6, 2017

Consumer rights advocates and three attorneys general are asking the Federal Communications Commission to curb a new straight-to-voicemail messaging technique being used by debt collectors and telemarketers. The FCC is seeking feedback from the public after receiving a petition from a ‘ringless voicemail provider’ trying to avoid regulation under the confines of the Telephone Consumer

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Is ABC News Liable for Defamation Over ‘Pink Slime’ Report?

- June 6, 2017

Have you heard of pink slime? Well it turns out that a “defamation trial over an ABC News report about so-called pink slime, a once-common ingredient in ground beef,” began on Monday after a South Dakota meat processing company claimed the news report “wreaked havoc on its business after it aired in 2012.” But what is pink slime?

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Settlement Reached Between Beaufort Inn and Bride Who Was Attacked On Eve of Her Wedding

- June 6, 2017

According to police, Gretchen Rhyan Mazur-Williamson was “badly beaten in a rented cottage at the Beaufort Inn in April 2009” after her assailant “entered her room through a broken rear window and waited for her to return.” As a result of the attack, the woman sued the inn back in 2012, accusing the owner, Associated Luxury Inns of Beaufort, of gross negligence for “failing to adopt and utilize adequate and proper security and emergency procedures for guests.” Now, years later, the Beaufort Inn has agreed to “an undisclosed settlement.”

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Presidential aides Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, two Trump aides who received ethics waivers.

Ethics Waivers: A Huge Asterisk

- June 5, 2017

While Americans went nuts last week spreading negative covfefe about a Presidential Twitter typo, the White House was reluctantly disclosing nearly a score of ethics waivers granted by President Trump to his senior staff, including former lobbyists and corporate lawyers.

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Central London Terror Attack Leaves 7 Dead, 48 Injured

- June 4, 2017

Less than two weeks after a suicide bombing in Manchester claimed the lives of 22 young adults and children, central London was paralyzed after a trio of men launched a coordinated terror attack. Late Saturday night, three men rampaged across London Bridge in a van, mowing down pedestrians and running through a waning evening crowd.

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