WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is restricting members of Congress from making official visits as part of official delegations to the hurricane-battered U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, congressional sources from both parties said Wednesday. “It’s very foggy and confusing, but, yes, [congressional delegations] haven’t been given clearance to go” […]
Daily Archives: September 28, 2017
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Attempts by Russia-linked social media accounts to influence events in the US apparently weren’t limited to last year’s US election. A network of Twitter accounts suspected of links to Russia were used this weekend to stoke the controversy over whether NFL players should stand for pregame performances of the national […]
View photos Villagers watch Mount Agung from an observation point which is about 12 kilometer (7.4 miles) away from the volcano in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. The exodus from the menacing volcano on the Indonesian tourist island is nearing 100,000 people, a disaster official said Wednesday, as […]
A desperate search has been launched for climbers who may have been caught in the massive rockslide. Yosemite spokesman Scott Gediman said in a statement that search and rescue teams responded to the scene following the incident and were assessing the situation, along with a park helicopter. He added that […]
The Catalan regional government claimed the move threatened freedom of speech in the EU state as Spanish authorities’s attempts to crush the independence vote intensified. A regional government spokesman said: “What they’re doing by blocking domain name servers is doing what Turkey does and what China does and what North […]
Will Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg be going to Washington? James Martin/CNET Editor’s note Sept. 27: The Senate has now invited Facebook and Google to testify at its upcoming hearing examining Russia’s use of social media in last year’s election, according to a person familiar with the matter. Twitter didn’t immediately […]
Roku, the video streaming platform, set its initial public offering price at $14 per share, giving the company a value of $1.3 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The maker of set-top streaming boxes and software priced at the high end of its expected range, raising roughly $219 million […]
Joe Ahrens was 21 years old when he discovered the body of his mother, who was fatally shot by a woman dressed up as a clown more than 27 years ago in Florida. On Wednesday, he was celebrating word that, finally, an arrest had been made. Ahrens, now 49 and […]