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The biggest of stories came to the small city of Butler. Here's how its newspaper met the moment 07/21/2024 11:25pm • BUTLER, Pa. (AP) ��� When gunshots echoed at the Trump rally where she was working, Butler Eagle reporter Irina Bucur dropped to the ground just like everyone else. She was terrified. She hardly froze, though. Bucur tried to text her assignment editor, through spotty cell service, to tell him what w Biden's legacy: Far-reaching accomplishments that didn't translate into political support 07/21/2024 08:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Sitting in the Oval Office behind the iconic Resolute desk in 2022, an animated President Joe Biden described the challenge of leading a psychologically traumatized nation. The United States had endured a life-altering pandemic. There was a jarring burst of inflation and now glob Stock Market Sectors 101: A Guide to All 11 Sectors 07/21/2024 08:00pm • The stock market is divided into 11 market sectors based on the Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS. This system, created jointly by Morgan Stanley and Standard & Poor's, sorts companies into sectors based on their primary business activities. Investors can then use the sector class Bangladesh���s top court scales back government jobs quota after deadly unrest that has killed scores 07/21/2024 11:09am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Bangladesh���s top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for government job applicants, a partial victory for student protesters after days of nationwide unrest and deadly clashes between police and demonstrators that have killed scores of people. Studen AP PHOTOS: Student violence in Bangladesh has killed scores of people 07/21/2024 08:31am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Deadly clashes between police and demonstrators demanding a change to job quotas in Bangladesh have left the streets littered with bullets and marked with smears of blood. Scores of people have died. Students, frustrated by shortages of good jobs, have been demanding an e How the global technology outage affected the DC region���s hospitals, transit services 07/20/2024 03:10pm • Listen live to WTOP for the latest traffic updates on the 8s. D.C.-area institutions ��� including hospitals, courts and transit services ��� modified operations Friday due to a global technology outage. The three major D.C. area airports saw delays and cancellations Friday morning, with some Tech outage latest | Airlines and others rush to get back on track after global tech disruption 07/20/2024 01:12pm • Transport providers, businesses and governments on Saturday are rushing to get all their systems back online after long disruptions following a widespread technology outage. The biggest continuing effect has been on air travel. Carriers canceled thousands of flights on Friday and now have many of t Bangladesh imposes strict curfew with a 'shoot-on-sight-order' following deadly protests 07/20/2024 06:36am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Police imposed a strict curfew with a ���shoot-on-sight��� order across Bangladesh as military forces patrolled parts of the capital Saturday after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over the allocation of civil service jobs. The curfew began at midnight an Internet outage latest | Airlines, businesses, border crossings hit by global tech disruption 07/19/2024 06:14pm • Businesses and governments worldwide experienced hours-long disruptions Friday as a widespread technology outage affected services across industries. Flights were grounded and numerous hospitals, small businesses and government offices were disrupted. At the heart of the massive disruption is Crowd Tech outage halts surgeries, medical treatments across the US 07/19/2024 05:02pm • Alison Baulos says her 73-year-old father was about to head to a Kentucky hospital for open-heart surgery when it was abruptly canceled early Friday morning. His was one of the many operations and medical treatments halted across the country because of a global technology outage. ���It does really m Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating data protection and consumer rights laws 07/19/2024 03:39pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Nigeria's government on Friday announced a fine of $220 million on Meta, saying its investigations found ���multiple and repeated��� violations of the country's data protection and consumer rights laws on Facebook and WhatsApp. A statement from Nigeria���s Federal Competition Bangladesh imposes nationwide curfew as deadly protests over government jobs escalate 07/19/2024 02:50pm • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina���s government late Friday announced a nationwide curfew across Bangladesh and ordered the deployment of military forces to maintain order following days of deadly clashes over the allocation of government jobs. The announcement was made by Oba How boot camps are helping to address the historic gap in internet access on US tribal lands 07/19/2024 01:28pm • There���s a home movie theater with orange walls and plush recliners at the top of a steep hill on Matthew Rantanen���s ranch in Southern California. But on a recent afternoon, people weren���t flocking to the room to watch a movie or to escape the scorching heat, they were shining a beam of light t NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 07/19/2024 10:41am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out." ___ Online posts falsely claim a sharpshooter was told not to fire on t Movie Review: A new generation drives into the storm in rousing ���Twisters��� 07/19/2024 04:35am • We have a complex relationship with disaster movies. Just look at the discussion about a ��� Twisters ��� poster, which became a perfect encapsulation of our love-hate tendencies. In the promo for the film, in theaters Thursday, actors Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos are standing