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was on a "private humanitarian mission,"

North Korea rejected the administration's first choice for the trip -- former vice president Al Gore, who co-founded the television channel that employs the journalists --

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The U.S. government should advance an "ambitious" plan for universal broadband availability and should ensure that broadband networks are open to all content and applications, according to a new study on public information needs in the digital age.

calls for new ideas to share news and information, even as the traditional newspaper industry appears near death.

The study calls for the U.S. government to increase support for public media and push ahead with the government transparency and accountability efforts