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Outage of Amazon cloud services causes some websites to go dark

Amazon’s cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services is experiencing an outage, affecting publishers including The Associated Press. They suddenly found themselves unable to operate their sites as former President Donald Trump appeared in court in Miami. The company said on its website that the root cause of the issue was… Read More

Prosecutors: Weapons expert in Alec Baldwin case was hungover on set

The weapons supervisor on the film set where Alec Baldwin shot and killed a cinematographer was drinking and smoking marijuana in the evenings during the filming of “Rust,” prosecutors are alleging, saying she was likely hungover when she loaded a live bullet into the revolver that the actor used. They… Read More

White House bans transgender advocate after they go topless Tuesday

Transgender advocate Rose Montoya is no longer welcome at White House events after posting on social media a video of three activists going topless at Saturday’s Pride Month event on the South Lawn. “The behavior was simply unacceptable,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre admitted Tuesday. “It was unfair to… Read More

Joe Biden disrespected the American flag ahead of Flag Day

Does the White House would have a flag etiquette expert on staff? It seems President Joe Biden doesn’t care. The White House played fast and loose with the American flag on Saturday, and Biden faced accusations of a violation of the flag code. The one food you should NEVER put… Read More

Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of ‘No Country for Old Men,’ dies at 89

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who in prose both dense and brittle took readers from the southern Appalachians to the desert Southwest in such novels as “The Road,” “Blood Meridian” and “All the Pretty Horses,” died Tuesday. He was 89. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a Penguin Random House imprint,… Read More

Thousands of Reddit communities go dark to boycott this

Thousands of Reddit discussion forums have gone dark this week to protest a new policy that will charge some third-party apps to access data on the site, leading to worries about content moderation and accessibility. More than 8,000 subreddits were dark as of Tuesday afternoon, according to a tracker and… Read More

[Watch] Trump makes historic appearance in federal court

Former President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at the federal courthouse in Miami to surrender to authorities ahead of a historic court appearance on charges that he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He was expected to face a magistrate judge, kickstarting a legal process that will… Read More

Kevin McCarthy breaks an eight-day stalemate… for now

Last month, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy convinced President Joe Biden to negotiate conditions for raising the federal government’s borrowing cap. McCarthy even won some concessions, like spending cuts and work requirements for more recipients of food stamps. Still, 11 House Republicans wanted more. On June 5, these 11 Republicans started… Read More