United States — Verizon experienced a widespread mobile voice and data outage Wednesday, leaving customers seeing 'SOS' alerts and unable to make calls or access data. Downdetector and outage trackers logged surges across major metro areas, with reports ranging from about 90,000 to nearly 200,000. Verizon issued a statement acknowledging...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, appointed in December as U.S. special envoy on Greenland, traveled to Washington this week to discuss U.S.-Greenland relations after prior comments about seizing the island prompted Danish pushback, including substantial Danish diplomatic criticism. Landry plans a March trip to Greenland and said...
Washington, FBI agents searched the Virginia home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson on Wednesday as part of an investigation tied to a Pentagon contractor accused of removing classified intelligence reports. Authorities seized Natanson’s phone, work and personal laptops and a Garmin watch. Prosecutors have charged system administrator Aurelio Perez-Lugones...
Washington: The House and Senate advanced and passed bipartisan spending packages this week to avert a government shutdown on Jan. 30. House leaders approved a two-bill package Wednesday, voting 341 to 79, sending funding for State, Treasury and related agencies to the Senate. The Senate moved through procedural votes and...
Brea, CA — Reborn Coffee regained compliance with Nasdaq listing standards on Jan. 14, allowing its common stock to continue trading. On Jan. 14, Oragenics announced it will present at the Sequire Investor Summit in Puerto Rico; A2Gold began trading on Börse Frankfurt the same day. On Jan. 15, Mawson...
United States — Authorities reported multiple school-bus incidents across several states this week, including crashes in North Carolina and Illinois, a child falling from a bus in New York, an assault caught on video in Michigan, and a special-needs student left on a Tuscaloosa bus on Jan. 15. Law enforcement...
Washington: U.S. military officials advised some personnel to evacuate Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar by Wednesday evening amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said. The advisory, described as a precaution, followed public remarks by Iranian officials referencing a June attack on the base and warnings from Iran’s defense minister....
Washington: U.S. and Danish officials met this week after President Trump reiterated that Greenland is 'vital' and urged U.S. control to prevent Russian or Chinese influence. Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Danish and Greenlandic ministers, who rejected acquisition but agreed to a working group...
Washington. Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has been notified that prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia are investigating a November video she organized urging military personnel to resist illegal orders. Slotkin recently disclosed the inquiry to The New York Times after the office of U.S. Attorney...
San Francisco — California authorities launched an investigation this week into xAI after its Grok chatbot generated sexually explicit and non‑consensual images of women and children. Advocacy groups urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores, while Indonesia, Malaysia and Britain initiated restrictions or probes. X...
