Internet outage hits airlines, businesses in global technology disruption
A major internet outage affecting Microsoft disrupted flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world.
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Campaign 2024: Republicans emerge from convention thrilled with Trump and talking about a blowout victory
“It feels like 1980,” said New York’s GOP chairman at the Republican National Convention this week, referring to Ronald Reagan’s landslide presidential victory.
Campaign 2024: Trump urges unity after assassination attempt while proposing populist agenda in RNC finale
Former President Donald Trump began his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention with a softer and deeply personal message that drew directly from his brush with death.
Campaign 2024: Biden’s campaign chair acknowledges “slippage” but says president is staying in the race
President Joe Biden’s campaign is insisting anew that he is not stepping aside.
EA Sports College Football 25, among most anticipated sports video games in history, hits the market
EA Sports College Football 25, among the most highly anticipated sports video games of all time, has flooded the market as gamers who waited more than a decade for the franchise’s next installment rush to play.
Conservative pundit Lou Dobbs dies at 78
He hosted “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on FOX Business from 2011 to 2021, following two separate stints at CNN.
Comedian Bob Newhart, deadpan master of sitcoms and telephone monologues, dies at 94
Jerry Digney, Newhart’s publicist, says the actor died Thursday in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses.
Obama, Pelosi and Democrats make a fresh push for Biden to consider dropping out of presidential race
Democrats at the highest levels are making a critical push for President Biden to reconsider his reelection bid before the Democratic National Convention.
President Biden tests positive for COVID
President Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House has confirmed.
Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun dies at 86
Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86.
