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Senator Hassan pressed Mr. Zuckerberg on Facebook’s business model, which as the Senator said, relies on two potentially problematic foundations: “maximizing the amount of time people spend on your products and collecting people’s data.”
They grilled the Facebook founder about ProPublica investigations involving abusive ad targeting, housing and employment discrimination and hate speech.
The Senate Thursday is expected to approve a bill that would pay a public school employee’s family a death benefit of $100,000 if the person is killed while performing his or her job.
We formally request that you ask Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign. Scott Pruitt’s unethical behavior, wasteful use of taxpayer money, and his efforts to undermine the EPA’s core mission to protect our environment and public health demand an appropriate response: his resignation or his firing.
Across New Hampshire from Seabrook to Berlin to Nashua and elsewhere, there are 19 Heroin Anonymous meetings.
For years, Congress and federal regulators have allowed the world’s largest social network to police itself — with disastrous results. Here are four promising reforms under discussion in Washington.
Researchers suggest people getting Vivitrol shots may be more susceptible to a fatal overdose if they halt the regimen early and resume using opiates.
Nine hundred good jobs are at stake, co-sponsors told the House Committee on Science, Technology and Energy Committee last Wednesday at the hearing on Senate Bill 446. Representative Herb Richardson (R- Lancaster) thinks the total is more like 1,500.
Lots happening for lawmakers and you coming this week including a public hearing on Senate Bill 593, which would end the state’s death penalty replacing it with life without parole, which passed the Senate but Sununu said he will veto it. The hearing is in Room 204 of the Legislative Office Building at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.