This false alert was sent to phones in Hawaii in early 2018 Alison Teal / AFP/Getty Images Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) are designed to alert mobile users in the United States about missing children (also known as Amber Alerts), severe weather, and presidential announcements for national emergencies. Alerts are geographically […]
Daily Archives: October 3, 2018
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The U.S. has long lagged behind other developed countries when it comes to one important statistic – the number of deaths of children and young people under the age of 25. The CDC has previously pointed out that infant and child mortality rates are an indicator of the overall health […]
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump’s campaign-rally attack on Christine Blasey Ford, the college professor who told the Senate last week that […]
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Millions of cellphones across the U.S. buzzed at 2:18 p.m. ET on Wednesday in the first test of the new “Presidential Alert” wireless warning system. “THIS IS A TEST of […]
LOHMAR, Germany (Reuters) – With a look of apprehension, a blond woman clad in a wetsuit wobbles her way onto a lake in western Germany in a huge, hollowed-out vegetable. A man paddles his giant pumpkin boat during the raditional pumpkin race in Lohmar, Germany October 3, 2018. Reuters/David Sahl […]
Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE A murderer recently released from prison was arrested for allegedly raping a North Carolina woman who’d been sheltering him from Hurricane Florence, authorities said. Freeman Scott Ireland, 37, was charged […]
For the first time in more than a decade, two Category 5 hurricanes were raging at the same time. The last time earth fuelled two tropical beasts at this level and at the same time was in 2005. The two major hurricanes are located on opposite sides of the Pacific, […]
Surely superhero movie fans know by now not to leave cinemas until the last credit has rolled. Marvel has established a winning formula of fun jokey end credit scenes mixed with major teasers for upcoming and linked movies. Will Venom do the same? The director and main star Tom Hardy […]