People in four US states were left unable to make 911 calls on Wednesday night after widespread system issues. Many services have been now restored after reports that lines went down for call centres across Nevada‚ Nebraska‚ South Dakota and Texas. Federal officials have previously warned that the move to digital systems by emergency services has brought with it the risk of cyber-attacks. But a cause of last night's problems has not yet been given. Officers had earlier said they had...

Boeing went under the magnifying glass at not one‚ but two Senate hearings today examining allegations of deep-seated safety issues plaguing the once-revered plane manufacturer. Witnesses‚ including two whistleblowers‚ painted a disturbing picture of a company that cut corners‚ ignored problems‚ and threatened employees who spoke up. These hearings have convened just four months after a door plug blew out of a Boeing-made Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight in January‚ sparking further concerns...

President Biden jetted across the must-win battleground of Pennsylvania this week to shore up support and take on one of his top liabilities: the economy. He pitches himself as a native son of Pennsylvania who understands the struggles of working-class voters‚ especially economically disadvantaged Black voters. Although employment numbers are good‚ Mr. Biden is saddled with stubborn inflation‚ high interest rates and high energy and food prices. Democrats in Pennsylvania‚ the...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has embraced a sense of urgency to deliver aid for U.S. allies following Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend‚ moving ahead with a floor vote on a $95 billion national security package. But after months of Israel and Ukraine expending resources in their respective wars absent U.S. assistance‚ questions remain about whether that top-line figure will be enough.  Johnson is proposing to bring a vote on four separate bills addressing...

It took less than six months for Speaker Mike Johnson to reach his existential moment. The Louisiana Republican has arrived at fateful but familiar crossroads where he must either choose to honor a conventional vision of US national interests or side with the wrecking ball antics of his party’s far-right bloc. It’s a choice with which his immediate predecessors – Kevin McCarthy‚ Paul Ryan and John Boehner – wrestled before him. Their refusal to lead the US into debt or financial...

Columbia neuroscientists have identified a genetic mutation that fends off Alzheimer’s in people at high risk and could lead to a new way to protect people from the disease. Source: Newly Found Genetic Variant Defends Against Alzheimer’s Disease Sounds promising&;#33;

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