FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke U.S. News Licenses and El Pollo Loco Announces Expansion Plans

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is threatening to revoke the licenses of news outlets that fail to align their reporting with what his agency deems the public interest. Meanwhile, leaders of the country's top airlines are urging Congress to end the partial government shutdown, which has left tens of thousands of TSA agents working without pay. The CEOs of American, JetBlue, Delta, and Southwest sent an open letter to lawmakers Sunday, calling on them to restore funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the TSA. In business, El Pollo Loco plans to open 20 locations outside of California after reporting high sales numbers last year, and the luxury outdoor mall Victoria Gardens sold for $500 million dollars to a real estate venture group. Read more at https://LATimes.com.

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0:00.0	This is an L. It's a good one. And so, you know, and the people. And I think of the world for the people. But I think of the people who are
0:39.3	and the people who are
0:40.3	and the people who are
0:42.3	the people who are going to be able to
0:45.3	the world and the world.
0:48.3	And so,
0:50.3	the people are going to be able to be able to
0:53.3	and the world. It's a lot of the next are the people who are the people who are a lot of people.
0:56.0	And the first of the next
0:58.0	and the world's people.
1:00.0	And the people are the people who are
1:02.0	the people who are going to be able to be able to
1:05.0	and the people.
1:07.0	And the people are just one of the people
1:09.0	and the people. and make a little more. We've seen a lot of conversation recently around free speech in general.
1:21.6	One of the most notable actions was when we saw the Federal Communications Commission Chair
1:26.6	Brendan Carr on a podcast referencing
1:29.5	we can do this the easy way or the hard way and talking a lot about comments that comedian
1:36.2	Jimmy Kimmel had made on a late night show. Shortly thereafter, what we saw was that ABC
1:43.0	canceled that show.
1:44.8	There's a lot of questions about was this a market forces reaction or was this government
1:50.1	job owning?
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