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Mark Zuckerberg will be headed to Washington. No one knows precisely when or to whom, but he himself has said he would be "happy" to testify.

That he has never been before Congress is one of those minor miracles that only technology companies seem capable of generating through their bulky "policy" (i.e. lobbying) teams and still considerable popularity.

Tech policy issues could drive decision-making at the polls in 2018, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), whose district includes Silicon Valley, told Bloomberg Law.

"Net neutrality is a voting issue, especially for young folks," Khanna said.

The revelation that British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica collected and maintained data on 50 million Facebook users to influence U.S. elections has prompted calls for oversight, investigation and possibly regulation of the social media giant.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made clear this week that he is open to the government regulating Facebook in some way. "The question isn't, ‘Should there be regulation or shouldn't there be?' It's ‘How do you do it?'" Zuckerberg told Wired.com.

Net neutrality must be restored. that's a given. the decision in December by the Federal Communications Commission to abolish the First Amendment of the Internet was, in the words of dissenting commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, "not good for consumers. Not good for businesses. Not good for anyone who connects and creates online. Not good for the democratizing force that depends on openness to thrive."

Indian American freshman U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna was among more than a quarter of California's members of Congress who sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding work eligibility of spouses of H-1B visa holders.

The letter, signed by 15 of the state's 53 representatives and dated March 5, urged DHS not to go forward with its plans to revoke work eligibility of H-1B holders' spouses, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.

The man's complaint seemed straightforward: He had come to the emergency room last June at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge, Massachusetts, for wrist pain that wouldn't quit.

The 24-year-old patient seemed anxious. But he didn't present any signs of being dangerous — red flags that nurse Elise Wilson had come to recognize over the course of her four-decade career. She had spent 35 years in the ER, where nurses encounter violence from patients or patients' relatives "almost on a daily basis," she said.

I really hate starting stories with, "So I was dating this guy," but unfortunately, that's precisely how this one begins. Jake, a blindingly handsome man with more game than Steph Curry, and I had been seeing each other somewhere between casually and semi-seriously for a while. We were sleeping together regularly, but we'd never had "the talk" about exclusivity. So, when one night his condom "accidentally" slipped off during sex, I believed it was just that: an accident.

It wasn't.

The Battle of 1498.

What sounds like something on a history class pop quiz is actually the answer to a civics question, one Americans are asking in mounting anger: How do we cut drug prices in the U.S., which are the highest in the world, and provide universal access to lifesaving drugs?