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FCC Releases Set Of Goals To Modernize High-Speed Internet Access The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Monday released a set of goals to modernize high-speed Internet access for Americans, Reuters reports. These plans include freeing up more airwaves for mobile services. The plan aims to have have 100 million American households get Internet speeds of 100 megabits per second (Mbps) by 2020, compared with the current average speed of less than 4 Mbps. ...

Health Care Reform Foes Throw Millions at Dems to Derail It  The New York Times reports, the yearlong legislative fight over health care is drawing to a frenzied close as a multimillion-dollar wave of advertising that rivals the ferocity of a presidential campaign takes aim at about 40 House Democrats whose votes will help determine the fate of President Obama’s top domestic priority. ...

Black Conservative and Fox News Contributor Runs for Congress in Mississippi Judging from the loud cheers she generated, one of the highlights of last weekend's Tea Party Convention in Nashville was the appearance of Angela McGlowan, a Fox News contributor and former GOP congressional staffer. She electrified the crowd when she hinted she would be announcing her candidacy for Congress from neighboring Mississippi in a few days. If elected, McGlowan would become only the third African American elected as a Republican to the U.S. House in the past 75 years.  ...

Dems Try to Fast track Ambitious College Aid Plan Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage, the Associated Press reports. The student loan measure would be the biggest change in college assistance programs since ...