Category Archives: World
US senator seeks cyber info from voting machine makers
WASHINGTON - A U.S. senator wants to know how well the country’s top six voting machine manufacturers protect themselves against cyberattacks, a move that comes just weeks after federal authorit...
Oct 03, 2017
In hurricanes' aftermath, technology eases return to school
Smartphone exchanges, social media, messaging apps and websites rendered students and their teachers at once disconnected and connected in the aftermath of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Now, as the hard...
Oct 03, 2017
Travel ban lawsuits filed by legal centre, Muslim advocates
BALTIMORE - A coalition of Muslim and Iranian-American advocates and a nonpartisan legal institute filed the first lawsuits against the Trump administration’s new travel restrictions for citizen...
Oct 03, 2017
ALS patient behind ice bucket challenge: I will bounce back
BEVERLY, Mass. - Pete Frates was mistakenly written off as dead this summer. Turns out, the man who helped spark the ice bucket challenge that raised millions of dollars for research on Lou GehrigR...
Oct 03, 2017
Question posed by Menendez trial: What is a constituent?
NEWARK, N.J. - Sen. Bob Menendez’s fate could turn on a simple question: What is a constituent? Specifically, could Dr. Salomon Melgen, Menendez’s longtime friend and now co-defendant, be ...
Oct 03, 2017
Post-mortem: VX poison killed brother of North Korean leader
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia - A Malaysian government pathologist testified Tuesday at the trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader that the banned VX nerv...
Oct 03, 2017
Former Equifax CEO says response should have been better
WASHINGTON - The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the challenge of responding to the concerns of tens of millions of consumers in the wake of a massive data breach proved overwhelming, and regr...
Oct 03, 2017
US automakers post first monthly sales gain of year in Sept.
DETROIT - The auto industry posted its first monthly sales gain of the year in September, led by strong truck and SUV sales and the replacement of cars destroyed by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. U.S. sal...
Oct 03, 2017
UK stars Steve Coogan, Sienna Miller get damages from Mirror
LONDON - British actors Steve Coogan and Sienna Miller have received financial damages and apologies from Mirror Group Newspapers in the settlement of long-running phone hacking cases. The damages wer...
Oct 03, 2017
Q&A: Ford and Gosling go head to head in 'Blade Runner 2049'
LOS ANGELES - Harrison Ford has a running joke that he can’t remember Ryan Gosling’s name. “I was delighted for a chance to work with the kid. What’s his name?” Ford told...
Oct 03, 2017