U.S EQUIPMENT, EXPERTS ARRIVE AT KENYA EBOLA FACILITY DESPITE COURT ORDER, PROTESTS. (PHOTO).

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 U.S equipment, experts arrive at Kenya Ebola facility despite court order, protests Around 20 flights carrying medical equipment and specialist staff have landed at a base in Kenya where the U.S. ​government is continuing to build an Ebola quarantine facility despite protests and Kenyan court orders blocking it, according to flight data and officials. At least two ‌people have been killed in protests in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki, home to the Kenyan air force base where the U.S. military is building a 50-bed unit for Americans who might be exposed to the virus, which has infected hundreds in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. A Kenyan court first ordered work on the Ebola facility to be suspended on May ​28, yet U.S. military flights into Nanyuki continued in the days that followed, according to data from flight-tracking service Flightradar24. The planes have brought in technical ​equipment as well as dozens of physicians, engineers, lab experts and construction work...

FCC OPENS PUBLIC COMMENT ON ABC PETITION TO CLASSIFY THE VIEW AS BONA FIDE NEWS INTERVIEW PROGRAM.(PHOTO).


 FCC opens public comment on ABC petition to classify The View as bona fide news interview program

The Federal Communications Commission has opened a public comment period on a petition from Disney-owned ABC seeking to classify The View as a “bona fide news interview program,” a designation that could exempt it from federal equal-time requirements for political candidates.

Disney, acting on behalf of ABC and its Houston station KTRK-TV, filed the request earlier this month in an effort to secure an exemption under the FCC’s rules governing political broadcasting. The equal-time provision, rooted in the Communications Act of 1934, requires broadcasters to provide comparable airtime to competing political candidates when one is featured, a safeguard intended to prevent partisan advantage on public airwaves.

Exemptions are typically granted to qualifying news programs, which ABC argues include The View, comparing it to established political talk shows such as Meet the Press and Face the Nation. The company says the program has long operated under a news exemption granted more than two decades ago and that this status remains valid.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the public comment period and raised questions about whether the program meets the legal definition of bona fide news programming, noting that FCC precedent excludes shows where editorial decisions are driven by partisan intent.

The petition follows long-running tensions between President Donald Trump and hosts of The View, and ABC argues that reclassifying the program could disrupt established regulatory practice and potentially chill protected speech across broadcast media.


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