After a request from the state’s leader, California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) on Tuesday said it will credit customers for a power shutoff earlier this month. “We understand that power shutoffs are more than an inconvenience for our customers and we did not live up to their expectations when it came to communicating
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Two State Department experts on Ukraine are slated to become the latest diplomats thrust into the spotlight as part of the House impeachment inquiry. Catherine Croft and Christopher Anderson are scheduled to testify in separate closed-door hearings before the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees on Wednesday. The foreign service officers, described as “two
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The Chinese government is trying to dampen demand for local tech stocks after President Xi Jinping personally endorsed blockchain technology, sending their value soaring. Stocks of almost 200 companies that invest in blockchain technology jumped around 8% on Monday, according to an index compiled by East Money Information, with some very quickly hitting their daily
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Authorities in Japan searching for man who appeared to fall in the middle of a live-streamed ascent of Mount Fuji have found a body, they said Wednesday. The video — taken from the hiker’s point of view — shows what appears to be a scene near the top of the Japan’s iconic mountain, above the
Continue Reading Chinese citizens have been urged to “inherit the red gene” by following new morality rules which use President Xi Jinping’s eponymous political thought as a guiding principle. The new guidelines, released by the country’s State Council on Sunday, focus heavily on nationalism and the citizen’s duty in “bearing the great responsibility of national rejuvenation.” Doing
Continue Reading It’s a boy! That’s the special announcement Ricky Martin and his husband of two years, Jwan Yosef, shared on Instagram Tuesday. “Renn Martin-Yosef, our baby boy is here,” the couple posted, welcoming their son to the family. The sweet surprise closely follows another post that melted all of our hearts: In August, the singer posted
Continue Reading Shares in one of China’s top electric carmakers plummeted Wednesday after the company reported a staggering 89% drop in net profit for the most recent quarter. BYD stock fell 5.8% in Hong Kong by mid-afternoon. The company’s Shenzhen-listed shares were down 6.8%. The Warren Buffett-backed carmaker reported late Tuesday that it brought in 119.7 million
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The US Federal Communications Commission wants to place more restrictions on Huawei and ZTE by barring companies that receive government money from purchasing equipment or services from the Chinese tech firms. The FCC announced the proposal Monday in Washington, and the agency will vote on it next month. It’s the latest move in a growing
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Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday will begin building a formal political process designed to impeach a President — a momentous task attempted only three times before in nearly two and a half centuries of US history. The Democratic-led House Rules Committee will sit at 3 p.m. ET to consider a resolution on the scope and regulations
Continue Reading Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. said Tuesday it didn’t find asbestos in the bottle of Johnson’s Baby Powder that was previously tested by the US Food and Drug Administration and found to be contaminated. Earlier this month, the company recalled one lot of baby powder — about 33,000 bottles — produced and shipped in the
Continue Reading Norfolk Island is a tiny landmass of about 1,800 people in the South Pacific, about 500 miles (800 km) from the nearest country. Officially, it’s part of Australia — but many people living there wish they were linked up with New Zealand instead. Norfolk was a self-governing state of Australia for decades until 2015, when
Continue Reading A federal judge has ruled in favor of the three sex offenders who sued a Georgia sheriff after his deputies put signs in the men’s yards last year warning trick-or-treaters not to visit on Halloween. The three men sued on behalf of all registered sex offenders in Butts County after finding out the sheriff’s office
Continue Reading Rarely has a global corporation as respected and powerful as Boeing been so humbled. Deep political connections that normally grease the airplane maker’s way in Washington meant nothing on Tuesday, as its CEO endured a fearsome dressing-down on the anniversary of last year’s Lion Air crash. For once, the US Congress did its job famously,
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The number of uninsured children ballooned by more than 400,000 between 2016 and 2018, an unprecedented decline in health coverage for the youngest Americans, a new study has found. Roughly 4.1 million children were uninsured in 2018, up from a low of 3.6 million in 2016, according to the Georgetown University Center for Children and
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(CNN) — Se divulgó un nuevo trailer de The Mandalorian, la serie original de “Star Wars” que llegará a Disney +. El programa derivado de “Star Wars” es la primera serie de acción en vivo de Lucasfilm. Jon Favreau escribe y dirige la serie, ambientada después de la caída del Imperio pero antes del surgimiento
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. For the past week I’ve been thinking that there’s too much media attention surrounding the House GOP, and not enough attention on the Senate. President Trump’s impeachment in the House seems inevitable at this point.
Continue Reading One of Iraq’s leading Shiite clerics and powerful politicians has called on other parties to back him in removing Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi after weeks of protests. Muqtada al-Sadr, who leads the largest political block in parliament, invited Iraq’s second largest party on Tuesday to cooperate with him in “immediately” holding a vote of
Continue Reading Two groups of United Nations member states issued dueling statements over China’s treatment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang, highlighting a global divide on Beijing’s human rights record. Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, a representative for the UK issued a statement on behalf of 23 countries raising concerns over alleged
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President Donald Trump asserted in his televised address from the White House Sunday that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was “whimpering and crying ” before ultimately detonating his suicide vest in a tunnel as US commandos closed in. Trump painted the ISIS leader as a coward, describing in great detail how he “spent his last
Continue Reading (CNN) – En solo un espacio de cuatro estados, el clima presenta condiciones extremas: o está quemando o el frío es inclemente. Literalmente. Mientras los californianos luchan contra los incendios forestales que afectan a su estado, 14 millones de personas en Estados Unidos estuvieron bajo alertas de tiempo invernal este martes. LEE: Así puedes ayudar
Continue Reading Democrats and Republicans got into a shouting match behind closed doors on Tuesday while interviewing a witness in the impeachment investigation, with Democrats accusing Republicans of trying to out the anonymous whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry, according to five sources from both parties. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff objected to a line of questioning
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los salvavidas en Huntington Beach, California, les recordaron a los nadadores que deben arrastrar los pies cuando se adentran en el océano después de que 176 personas fueron picadas por las rayas en un solo día. Un número récord de personas fueron picadas el sábado, dijeron las autoridades a KTLA, afiliada de CNN.
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It’s one word the National Weather Service in Los Angeles doesn’t want Southern California residents to overlook — extreme. As in, this isn’t just another red flag warning — meaning winds, temperatures and humidity are ripe for fire danger. It’s an extreme red flag warning. The weather service in using the term for the first
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los fantasmas y bomberos, princesas y zombis están listos para pedir dulces y están ansiosos por recoger la mayor cantidad de dulces posible. ¿Cómo puedes asegurar que harás un buen recorrido? ¿Y cómo puedes hacer de tu casa una parada popular? Unos consejos de etiqueta apropiados para Halloween te podrían ayudar. Para pedir
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Click here for updates on this story GLASTONBURY, Conn. (WFSB) — A family from south Glastonbury got quite the surprise when their 10-year-old son was called for jury duty. Fifth grade student Nick Dondero received the letter in the mail summoning him to show up. While the family found it a bit comical, they’re wondering
Continue Reading (CNN) — Muchos viajeros se vuelven creativos con el equipaje, ya sea que se sienten en su maleta para intentar cerrarla o que lleguen al aeropuerto con tres abrigos. MIRA: Detienen a una mujer en Filipinas que llevaba un bebé recién nacido en su equipaje de mano Pero la periodista de viajes Rebecca Andrews llevó los
Continue Reading Just when you were wondering whatever happened to Jared Kushner, the White House adviser who got his job because his father-in-law is President, he popped up on an Israeli TV station on Monday to jab at the Democrat who may be on the ballot opposing President Donald Trump in 2020. He said he’s been busy
Continue Reading Shigeru Miyamoto is a titan in the video game industry, having created beloved franchises such as “Mario Bros.” and “The Legend of Zelda.” For his work, Japanese news outlet Nikkei reports, Miyamoto is being awarded the Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government on November 3, which is recognized nationally as Culture Day in
Continue Reading (CNN Español) — La sede de la alcaldía de Nechí, departamento de Antioquia, fue incendiada por un grupo de personas descontentas con los resultados de las elecciones locales del pasado domingo, de acuerdo a Cablenoticias, medio afiliado de CNN. Según Cablenoticias, la policía de Antioquia indicó que el incendio fue “producto de los enfrentamientos entre los
Continue Reading What do Dwight Eisenhower, Donald Trump and Charles Wieder Dent have in common? Answer: We all have ancestors who trace their ethnic roots to an area of Europe we now call Germany. In the case of Donald Trump and me, we both can trace our ancestors specifically to Rheinland-Pfalz, mine arriving in the 18th century,
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