A pair of struggling social-media darlings have decided they need to take on new looks if they want to prosper. Twitter is rolling out a 280-character limit for nearly all its users, abandoning its iconic 140-character limit for tweets. And Snapchat, long an app popular with young people, will undergo… Read More
Execution canceled after team can’t find inmate’s vein
Ohio called off the execution of a condemned killer with multiple health problems on Wednesday, because members of the state’s execution team were unable to find a vein to insert an IV that would administer the lethal drugs. It was only the third time in U.S. history that an execution… Read More
Church massacre victims may sue government
Texas church shooting victims and their families could have a hard time successfully suing the government over the Air Force’s failure to submit the gunman’s criminal history to the FBI — a step that would have blocked him from legally buying weapons. Relatives of the more than two dozen churchgoers… Read More
Country music stars celebrate a decade as CMA hosts
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are celebrating their 10-year anniversary — as hosts of the Country Music Association Awards. The duo has hosted the show consecutively since 2008, and they return Wednesday for the 2017 CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. While Underwood and Paisley plan to… Read More
Governor’s race down to the wire in Virginia, New Jersey
Virginia and New Jersey are set to pick new governors Tuesday. In New Jersey, Democrat Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive and Obama administration ambassador to Germany, holds a double-digit lead in most polls over Republican Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno. The Garden State is reliably Democratic, but has twice… Read More
Trump hacked prior to election?
Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked by hackers possibly operating out of Russia, The Associated Press has… Read More
Trump’s pick for Fed Chairman is fully equipped for the job
As a choice to lead the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell defies any recent mold. He isn’t a trained economist. He’s produced no trail of research. He built a fortune as an investment manager. Yet by the reckoning of Fed analysts — those who know him and those who don’t —… Read More
California family found in jungle after pirate attack
A California couple and their two daughters who had been missing for days after pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River delta area have been found alive. Except for insect bites and scratches, Adam and Emily Harteau and their 3- and 7-year-old daughters were in good condition and will… Read More
Tale of survival for two Hawaii women does not add up
Two Hawaii women who say they were lost at sea on a sailboat for months never activated their emergency beacon, the U.S. Coast Guard said, adding to a growing list of inconsistencies that cast doubt on their harrowing tale of survival. The women previously told The Associated Press that they… Read More
Women rescued from after being lost for five months at sea
A planned voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti aboard a small sailboat didn’t start off well for two Honolulu women. One of their cellphones washed overboard and sank into the deep blue water on their first day at sea. From there, things got worse. Much worse. About a month into their… Read More
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