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In recent years supporters of network neutrality have tried and failed to get Congress to enact neutrality regulations. In 2010, Julius Genachowski, President Obama’s choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission, decided to act anyway, relying on a controversial interpretation of existing statutes to justify a new regime of “open Internet” rules.

Apple used a “complex web” of offshore entities — with no employees or physical offices — that allowed it to pay little or no taxes on the tens of billions it earned overseas, a Senate investigation found.

The Supreme Court held that a court must give Chevron deference to an agency's interpretation of an ambiguity in statute over the limits of its authority. In this case it was the Federal Communications Commission's assertion that it had the broad regulatory authority to impose a shot clock on tower citing applications to local governments.

When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material. They used security badge access records to track the reporter’s comings and goings from the State Department, according to a newly obtained court affidavit.

We have an important mission, and this is an important time. I assume the role of Acting Chair, with a great sense of responsibility, but also great humility. And as we await the confirmation of Tom Wheeler, I see myself as a member of a relay team, running one of the middle legs. My job is to build on forward momentum, give the next teammate a running start, an improved position, and no matter what, my goal is not to drop the baton.

The Consumer Electronics Association asked the full Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the Media Bureau's grant of a conditional waiver to Charter for set-tops with downloadable security.

Intel is a $53-billion-a-year company that enjoys a near monopoly on the computer chips that go into PCs. But when it comes to the data underlying big companies like Facebook and Google, it says it wants to “return power to the people.”

The reasons a la carte cable pricing was roundly rejected by Congress years ago are just as relevant today: such rules would decimate the economic model that has encouraged ever-increasing diversity of viewpoints on television and has made possible even the modest increase in minority ownership of programming.

It's a long time coming, but television content is showing up on non-TV screens like never before, and people are willing to pay for it. Whatever will become of cable? For one, experts say, cable companies may finally be forced to kill their sacred cash cow: bundled channels. The battle lines are drawn.