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Montgomery Co. offers free computers, Internet discounts for low-income residents 08/16/2023 01:32pm • There's good news for Montgomery County residents without Internet service or access to computers. Montgomery County is offering free computers and up to $45 per month off home or mobile Internet for some low-income residents. The program, offered right before the start of the new school year, Videos put scrutiny on downed power lines as possible cause of deadly Maui wildfires 08/16/2023 08:44am • Awakened by howling winds that tore through his Maui neighborhood, Shane Treu went out at dawn and saw a wooden power pole suddenly snap with a flash, its sparking, popping line falling to the dry grass below and quickly igniting a row of flames. He called 911 and then turned on Facebook video to li UN envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity for denying girls education 08/16/2023 12:03am • UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The International Criminal Court should prosecute Taliban leaders for a crime against humanity for denying education and employment to Afghan girls and women, the U.N. special envoy for global education said. Gordon Brown told a virtual U.N. press conference on the second ann 8 of the Best Tech Dividend Stocks to Buy 08/15/2023 08:00pm • Many investors mistakenly believe there is a trade-off between growth and income. Either a company can produce strong capital gains, or it is a stodgy slow-moving blue chip. However, there are a surprisingly large number of technology companies that pay attractive dividends as well. In fact, as 2022 Editorial Roundup: United States 08/15/2023 04:04pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Aug. 12 The Washington Post on Hunter Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday his appointment of U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware as special counsel in the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden, President Bide Judge blocks Internet Archive from sharing copyrighted books 08/15/2023 02:21pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved a permanent injunction against the online Internet Archive from scanning and sharing all copyrighted books already made available by publishers. Judge John Koeltl had already ruled in March that the Archive had illegally offered free e-editions of 127 'Bidenomics' delivered a once-in-generation investment. It shows the pros and cons of policymaking 08/15/2023 11:37am • WASHINGTON (AP) — There are so many dots on the maps they blur into blobs — each one reflecting trillions of public and private dollars flowing in the U.S. this past year to build thousands of roads, bridges and manufacturing projects in communities large and small, in states red and blue. They South Africa's unemployment is a 'ticking time bomb.' Anger rises with millions jobless 08/14/2023 10:18pm • JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As Lebohang Mphuthi works amid the chaos of boisterous children during a lunch break at the Omar H.S. Ebrahim elementary school in South Africa — the kids are pushing, shoving and spilling food everywhere — she can't help but think how this is as far from her dream job as i This is How Much It Costs to See Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour 08/14/2023 08:00pm • Gabrielle Lask isn't normally a big spender, but when she had an opportunity to purchase two tickets to Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour for $4,000, the Swiftie just couldn't "shake off" the chance to see the singer with her mom. "It's so much money," Lask says. "I honestly don't think I've ever spent t For Mark Zuckerberg's Threads, the real rival is still TikTok — not the former Twitter 08/14/2023 07:40pm • Threads, the simple, bare-bones text-based social network created by Facebook owner Meta, burst onto the scene during a particularly bad week for the rival then still known as Twitter. It quickly amassed 100 million signups — a huge feat for a newcomer in the space — and was dubbed as a “Twitt Trump assails judge in 2020 election case after she warned him not to make inflammatory remarks 08/14/2023 12:20pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is assailing the federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against him, days after she warned him not to make inflammatory statements about the case. The former president made posts Monday on his social media network calling U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutka David McCormick is gearing up for a Senate run in Pennsylvania. But he lives in Connecticut 08/14/2023 07:55am • WASHINGTON (AP) — David McCormick had a clear explanation for why his fellow Republican, Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost a critical Pennsylvania Senate seat last year: Voters viewed the daytime television celebrity as an interloper from New Jersey with limited ties to the state he hoped to represent. “Peop A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher's home 08/13/2023 10:01pm • MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her wee Rising political threats take US into uncharted territory as 2024 election looms 08/13/2023 06:24pm • DENVER (AP) — This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden was just the latest example of how violent rhetoric has created a more perilous political environment across the U.S. Six days earlier, a 5 Don't expect quick fixes in 'red-teaming' of AI models. Security was an afterthought 08/13/2023 05:20pm • BOSTON (AP) — White House officials concerned by AI chatbots' potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested in a three-day competition ending Sunday at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas. Some 2,200 competitors tapped on laptops s