Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger was down for many users in India and other countries, according to reports from multiple users on Facebook and Twitter on Friday afternoon. Users in countries from Myanmar to Russia and Vietnam to Brazil reported that WhatsApp was down in their countries too on social media. The extent of the outage was not immediately known, but […]
» Read morePresident Donald Trump tapped Jerome Powell on Thursday to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chair when her term ends in February, choosing a moderate member of the Fed’s board who has backed Yellen’s cautious approach to interest rate hikes. Mr. Powell, 64, is seen as a safe pick whose selection will likely assure investors hoping for continuity at the Central […]
» Read moreThree people were killed in a shooting inside a Walmart store on Wednesday in suburban Denver. Police said they were yet to take anyone into custody. Police in Thornton, Colorado, did not immediately release any information about the circumstances of the shooting or who was responsible for the gunfire. Two men were killed in the shooting and an injured women […]
» Read moreA Maryland sheriff says three people have been killed and two were wounded during a shooting at an office park in the northeastern part of the State. The suspect and the victims were all associated with a company at the Emmorton Business Park in Edgewood. Nearby schools have been locked down as a precaution. The business park is just south […]
» Read moreThe Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history stockpiled weapons and ammunition over decades, and meticulously planned the attack, authorities believe. But what led Stephen Paddock, 64, to unleash the carnage he did remains largely a mystery. “What we know is that Stephen Paddock is a man who spent […]
» Read moreBritish author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel The Remains of the Day, won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize on October 5, the Swedish Academy said. Mr. Ishiguro, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,” the Academy wrote. Sixty four-year-old Mr. Ishiguro was born in Japan and […]
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