TORONTO (AP) — A widespread network outage left many Canadians without mobile and internet service for most of the day, disrupting police, business and court services as crowds flocked to work at coffee shops with Wi-Fi. Rogers Communications Inc. said it started restoring service late Friday and said its teams “are working hard to get
Continue ReadingTORONTO (AP) — A widespread network outage left many Canadians without mobile and internet service for most of the day, disrupting police, business and court services as crowds flocked to work at coffee shops with Wi-Fi. Rogers Communications Inc. said it started restoring service late Friday and said its teams “are working hard to get
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration says the U.S. will send another $400 million in military equipment to Ukraine, including four more advanced rocket systems. It’s an effort to bolster Ukrainian efforts to strike deeper behind Russian frontlines in the eastern Donbas region. The aid comes as Moscow this
Continue ReadingCNNEspañol sjv (CNN) — El gobernador de Texas, Greg Abbott, autorizó a la Guardia Nacional de Texas y al Departamento de Seguridad Pública a devolver a la frontera a los migrantes que “cruzan ilegalmente la frontera entre los puertos de entrada”, según un comunicado de prensa del jueves de su oficina. Abbott emitió y firmó
Continue ReadingSITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska family had given up hope of finding their blind, elderly golden retriever who wandered away from their home three weeks ago, but a construction crew found Lulu in salmonberry bushes after initially confusing her for a bear. The Daily Sitka Sentinel reports Lulu was barely alive after being found
Continue ReadingBy Sean Lyngaas, CNN Pro-Russia hackers claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that briefly interrupted access to a website for US Congress on Thursday night. Access to Congress.gov was intermittently disrupted from around 9 p.m. ET Thursday until the website was restored to normal operation “just after” 11 p.m. ET, April Slayton, director of communications for
Continue ReadingAlexandra Ferguson (CNN) — En febrero de 2016, la epidemióloga de enfermedades infecciosas Steffanie Strathdee sostenía la mano de su marido moribundo, viendo cómo perdía una agotadora lucha contra una superbacteria mortal. Después de meses de altibajos, los médicos acababan de decirle que su marido, Tom Patterson, estaba demasiado atestado de bacterias para vivir. “Y
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama (WALA) — An unusual water rescue was reported Thursday on the Dauphin Island Public Safety Facebook page. According to the report, at approximately 3:30 p.m. Dauphin Island Public Safety Officer Danny Gothard was flagged down at the West End Beach parking area.
Continue ReadingBy Benjamin Brown, CNN The former president of Angola, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, has died at the age of 79. Dos Santos, who served as president between 1979 and 2017, died in the Spanish city of Barcelona on Friday morning, CNN Portugal reported, citing a government statement. The former president had been hospitalized in Spain
Continue ReadingBy Kandra Kent Click here for updates on this story HILLSBORO, Oregon (KPTV) — Marchel Marcos was in Washington DC the day that the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade, ending a nearly 50-year ruling that made abortions legal in every state in the nation. “I immediately felt like I needed community,” Marcos said. “I
Continue ReadingBy RENATA BRITO and TARIK EL-BARAKAH Associated Press RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The European Commission has vowed to step up its work with Morocco to fight human smugglers who are using “new, extremely violent methods” to get migrants into Spain. The announcement Friday comes two weeks after 23 people died at the border between Morocco
Continue ReadingBy Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday barred the use of most ballot drop boxes and ruled that no one can return a ballot in person on behalf of another voter — dealing a blow to Democrats ahead of crucial contests in this perennial battleground state. Voting rights groups and Democrats had
Continue ReadingBy HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — This deficit was less daunting for Novak Djokovic. The tension less palpable. It’s not that he wants to fall behind in matches, of course. It’s that when he does, he knows how to deal with it. “It’s amazing how the whole game can fall apart,
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A deep dive into rock ‘n’ roll’s female pioneers like Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Mavis Staples and Shania Twain forms the backbone of the fascinating, four-part docuseries “Women Who Rock.” The docuseries moves chronologically from the birth of rock ‘n’ roll, where women weren’t taken
Continue ReadingCNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN At the northern tip of Patagonia’s desert coast in Argentina, the skies above El Cóndor are filled with shifting clouds of chatty, colorful parrots. The mountain’s crumbling sandstone cliffs are home to the largest parrot colony in the world, containing 37,000 nests. The burrowing parrots are so named because they
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN At the northern tip of Patagonia’s desert coast in Argentina, the skies above El Cóndor are filled with shifting clouds of chatty, colorful parrots. The mountain’s crumbling sandstone cliffs are home to the largest parrot colony in the world, containing 37,000 nests. The burrowing parrots are so named because they tunnel
Continue ReadingBy Adrian Thomas Click here for updates on this story PORTLAND, Oregon (KPTV) — On Thursday, The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) released new data showing a dramatic increase in drug overdoses, mostly due to fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opiate used to create fake prescription painkillers. The report from OHA found that from 2019 to
Continue ReadingBy JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The family of a Palestinian-American reporter killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank has lashed out at President Joe Biden over his administration’s response to her death. Relatives of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh expressed “grief, outrage and (a) sense of betrayal” in a letter
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter is laying off a portion of its recruiting team after previously saying it would pause most hiring. The move comes as Twitter continues to await a pending acquisition by Elon Musk, a process that has been marked by confusion and contention between the social media company and the billionaire
Continue ReadingBy Marcy Jones and Rob Polansky Click here for updates on this story NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (WFSB) — he family of a man paralyzed in New Haven police custody said it will hold a community march with the NAACP on Friday. The march will also be led by their attorney Ben Crump, who has called
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