Posts by Amelia Frost
Cyberattack Disrupts Publication of Lee Newspapers Across the U.S.
Newspapers across the country owned by the news media company Lee Enterprises were unable to print, had problems with their websites and published smaller issues after a cyberattack last week, the company said. In a statement emailed on Sunday, Lee Enterprises said that the company was facing disruptions to its daily operations because of a…
Read MoreTrump Beefs Up ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit, Demands $20 Billion From CBS
President Donald Trump has amended his $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News, demanding $20 billion in damages and claiming the company edited a segment with Vice President Kamala Harris to help improve her chances of winning the presidential election. Trump’s revised complaint filed Friday, had other revisions, reported the Los Angeles Times. The filing now…
Read MoreSix Nations Kings Ireland Again Prove Too Much For Scotland
Ireland stayed on course for an unprecedented third successive Six Nations title with a 32-18 win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday. Ireland’s 11th straight victory over Scotland means they are the only team left in this year’s Six Nations with a chance of completing the coveted Grand Slam. But this latest win was overshadowed…
Read MoreEarly Crypto Traders Had Speedy Profit on Trump Coin as Others Suffered Losses
The curious trade came a little past 9 p.m. on Jan. 17 — a $1,096,109 bet less than two minutes after the soon-to-be president of the United States posted on his social media account that his family had issued a cryptocurrency called $Trump. In those first minutes, a crypto wallet with a unique identification code…
Read MoreTrump Says Musk Will Help Uncover ‘Hundreds Of Billions’ In US Govt Fraud
President Donald Trump said in remarks airing Sunday that Elon Musk, who is presiding over a purge of US government jobs, will help find “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud” in federal agencies. Speaking in a Fox News interview set to air before the Super Bowl football championship, Trump said the American people “want…
Read MoreEverything We Know About the 10 People Who Died in the Alaska Plane Crash
All 10 passengers who died in the Alaska plane crash have been identified, according to a Facebook update from the Nome Volunteer Fire Department. Alaska State Troopers identified the nine passengers as Liane Ryan, 52, of Wasilla; Donnell Erickson, 58, of Nome; Andrew Gonzalez, 30, of Wasilla; Kameron Hartvigson, 41, of Anchorage; Rhone Baumgartner, 46,…
Read MoreVon Allmen Upstages Rivals To Win World Downhill Gold
Swiss tyro Franjo Von Allmen outpaced a host of more experienced rivals to clinch gold in the men’s downhill at the World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Sunday. Von Allmen, 23, timed 1min 40.68sec down the 2.9km-long Schneekristall course as teammate and defending champion Marco Odermatt, winner of Friday’s super-G, finished fifth. Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr,…
Read MoreAI App Offers A Lifeline For S.Africa’s Abused Women
She says she was violated by police. Now she’s brainstorming an AI-integrated app with a panic button that alerts private security to help other women caught in South Africa’s tragically high rates of abuse. Peaches, as the 35-year-old sex worker asked to be identified, is among the more than a third of South African women…
Read MoreThai Hostage Freed From Gaza Says Feels ‘Reborn’ After Return Home
A Thai farm worker held hostage in Gaza for more than a year said he felt “reborn” as he and four compatriots arrived home on Sunday to tears of joy from their relieved families. The five Thais smiled as they walked into the arrivals hall at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport after being freed on January 30…
Read MoreHamas Says Israel Withdraws From Key Gaza Road
A Hamas official said Israeli troops on Sunday completed their withdrawal from a strategic road bisecting the Gaza Strip, part of a fragile truce deal that Israel said it was implementing. “Israeli forces have dismantled their positions and military posts and completely withdrawn their tanks from the Netzarim Corridor on Salaheddin Road, allowing vehicles to…
Read MoreHow GoFundMe Became a $250 Million Lifeline After the L.A. Fires
During a news conference four day after the fires began, Kathryn Barger, the chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said she had been forced to pay a $95 fee to the company to make a $500 donation to a friend whose home had been lost in the fire. “I was shocked,” she…
Read MoreTrump, Expected to Attend Super Bowl, Has Had a Fraught Relationship With the NFL
During President Trump’s first term, his relationship with the N.F.L. was contentious. He downplayed the severity of concussions in football even as the league took steps to reduce head trauma in the game, and suggested that football was declining because it is not as violent as it once was. Most notably, in 2017, he urged…
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