Month: September 2017

– Puerto Ricans: Trump’s relief efforts are a ‘disaster’

– Puerto Rico Rejects Loan Offers, Accusing Hedge Funds of Trying to Profit Off Hurricanes

– Royal Caribbean evacuates thousands from San Juan and the Caribbean

– State Department orders nonessential diplomats and families out of Cuba following mysterious attacks

– Has Washington forgotten about us? One year passes with no US ambassador to Australia

– Racial slurs written on dorm room boards of black Air Force Academy cadet candidates

– Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Stuck Taxpayers For $12,000 Charter Flight

– California lawmaker wants to ban gas car sales after 2040

– Fake black activist accounts linked to Russian government

– Putin critic Navalny detained by police before pre-election rally

– Musk Wants to Build a Rocket That Will Get You Anywhere on Earth in an Hour

– Sen. Wyden Slams Pai on Senate Floor, Says FCC chair is on side of ‘big cable’

– White House waives Jones Act in response to Puerto Rico devastation

– Pitbull sends private plane to Puerto Rico to transport cancer patients

– U.S. student held in North Korea died of oxygen starved brain: coroner

– China says North Korean businesses in country will shut within 120 days of U.N. resolution

– ‘Yes’ to Kurdistan: 92 Percent of Iraq’s Kurds Voted for Independence, Official Results Show

– Spain to deploy police to prevent Catalan independence vote

– American Icon and Playboy Founder, Hugh M. Hefner, Has Died

– San Francisco sues Equifax on behalf of 15 million Californians affected by the breach

– LAPD Officer Arrested in Fatal Crash Posted ‘Don’t Drink and Drive’ Video From Bar Hours Before Collision

– Russian-bought Black Lives Matter ad on Facebook targeted Baltimore and Ferguson

– Russian-linked Twitter accounts stoked NFL anthem debate

– Warner sees Reddit as potential target for Russian influence

– Monsanto banned from European parliament

 

– America denies Puerto Rico request for waiver to bring vital fuel and supplies to island

– ‘This doesn’t feel like a first-class response’: Puerto Ricans slam Trump’s claim of ‘amazing’ aid after Maria

– 101st Airborne Division deploying to Puerto Rico as recovery effort lags

– Mattis target of failed Kabul airport rocket attack, Taliban says

– Trump deleted his tweets that endorsed Luther Strange after Roy Moore’s win in Alabama

– Democrats flip two seats in state special elections

– State police director’s FB post: NFL players who take knee during anthem are ‘degenerates’

– Tennessee church shooter admits to crime as bizarre Facebook posts surface

– ‘Why Don’t You Go Back to Mexico, Speak English’: Woman Records Man’s Racist Rant at Goodwill Store in Oklahoma

– Britain warns Boeing it might miss out on business over Bombardier row

– Merkel welcomes ‘a lot of material’ from Macron on EU reform

– Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive

– Does Trump care about Puerto Rico’s hurricane victims?

– Hundreds Remain Stranded At Puerto Rico’s Largest Airport

– Twitter Explains Why Trump North Korea Tweet Wasn’t Removed

– As North Korea threatens electromagnetic pulse attack, questions over lapses in US grid security rise

– Democrat Elijah Cummings begins probe into Jared Kushner’s private emails

– Voicemails from nursing home where 11 died after Irma were deleted by governor’s office

– Senate GOP weighs how to fail on Obamacare

– Equifax CEO steps down after data breach; he’ll still get $18-million pension

– NCAA basketball coaches among 10 charged with fraud and corruption

– Sixth mass extinction of wildlife also threatens global food supplies

– Study claims cannabis may prevent people from doing hard drugs

– Target to raise its minimum wage to $11 per hour, promising $15 by 2020

– North Korea accuses Trump of declaring war

– Donald Trump criticised for silence over Puerto Rico disaster

– Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico officials describe ‘apocalyptic’ conditions

– Jared Kushner used private email for White House business

– Tom Brady on Trump: ‘I certainly disagree with what he said’

– German elections 2017: Angela Merkel wins fourth term but AfD makes gains – as it happened

– Japan’s Abe announces snap election amid worries over North Korea

– 400 college professors say you should be able to sue Equifax and other financial institutions

– Anthony Weiner Sentenced to 21 Months in Prison

– Bus crash in Austrian Alps averted after tourist applies brake

– Approval rating for Brazil’s Temer plummets: poll

– Australian space agency to employ thousands and tap $420b industry, Government says

 

– Desperate rescue effort after Hurricane Maria toll climbs to 33

– Mexico: Watching the search for a missing girl who turned out not to exist

– North Korea: Trump and Kim call each other mad

– Russia denies use of Facebook ads in 2016 election

– D.C. court rules tracking phones without a warrant is unconstitutional

– Ride-hailing app Uber loses licence to operate in London

– Study: Flint water killed unborn babies; many moms who drank it couldn’t get pregnant

– Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

– Northern Michigan University The First In U.S. To Train Undergrads For Marijuana Industry

– New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains

– Chile to be the first American country to ban plastic bags in coastal cities

– The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales

– Mexico earthquake latest: rescuers keep searching as death toll climbs to 250

– Hurricane Maria Leaves Puerto Rico Facing Months Without Power

– North Korea: Trump’s UN speech amounted to ‘the sound of a dog barking’

– Japan earthquake: Magnitude 6.1 tremors hit east coast

– Fed Agency Urging Corporate Cybersecurity Upgrades Is Hacked

– Equifax sends breach victims to fake notification site

– ‘He Can’t Hear You!’: Deaf Man Shot Dead by Oklahoma City Police as Neighbors Scream in Horror

– France calls for UN action on Rohingya ‘genocide’

– Thousands rally in Philippines, warn of Duterte ‘dictatorship’

– 1,000-Year-Old Tomb of Maya King Discovered in Guatemala

 

– More than 200 dead after magnitude-7.1 quake strikes Mexico; “death toll will rise”

– Hurricane Maria pounds Puerto Rico after killing 7 people in Dominica

– UK police arrest three in Wales over London train bomb attack

– Trump fires back after Clinton calls U.N. speech ‘dangerous’

– Trump using campaign, RNC funds to pay legal bills from Russia probe: sources

– Erdogan: Trump apologized to me over brawl between Turkish bodyguards and protesters

– There is meddling in Germany’s election — not by Russia, but by U.S. right wing

– German World War I submarine discovered intact with 23 bodies inside

– Spanish police storm Catalan government buildings to stop independence referendum

– ‘I will have my boat stolen’: final days of British kayaker killed in Brazil

– WHO warns the world is running out of antibiotics

– Apple cuts cookies – but there is more to come in the online advertising arms race

 

– ‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Maria now a Category 5 storm

– Category 4 Hurricane Maria Takes Aim at Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

– Trump warns U.S. will “destroy” North Korea in UN General Assembly speech

– Trump suggests US will have military parade on July 4

– Myanmar’s Suu Kyi condemns abuses in Rakhine but silent on army role

– Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed

– Canada won’t do business with Boeing while it’s ‘busy trying to sue us,’ Trudeau says

– Canada flagged as hidden $14 trillion credit bubble stokes global crisis fears

– Several people facing charges following protests at Georgia Tech

– Enough Fentanyl to Kill 32M People Seized in Single NYC Bust: Prosecutors

– Evidence leads investigators unraveling London subway plot to foster home

– Hurricane Maria expected to hammer Caribbean again, Jose to bring rain to northeast

– Trump takes on a new cause: ‘Make the United Nations great’

– Three killed, 16 injured after tour bus slams into MTA bus in Queens

– St. Louis protests over Jason Stockley not-guilty verdict resume after arrests

– Michael Flynn Family Sets Up Legal Defense Fund

– Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe

– German girl, 16, who ran away to join ISIS may yet face the death penalty

– Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast’s Piriform says

– Salt Lake County Jail Federal hate crime charges filed in Draper stun cane case

– ‘I was just doing my job’: Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77

– Pot decriminalization law goes into effect in New Hampshire