Gary Semel’s hands trembled in anticipation of the moment he had awaited for four months. Finally, he could kneel down in front of Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World to propose to his girlfriend of two years, Tia Lovett, 50. They kissed, face mask to face mask, a love story in historic times,
Teens are fighting back against the Trump administration’s tough talk about potentially banning TikTok, and the official Trump app is a casualty of war. “Why are you banning TikTok?” asks a one-star review on the iOS App Store from “YEETERQUEEN” posted yesterday. “There are so many things that are more important than an
Ethiopian authorities have arrested two suspects over the killing of a popular political singer, whose death last week sparked protests in which people were killed. The shooting of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, a musician widely revered among his Oromo ethnic group, ignited protests in Addis Ababa and the surrounding Oromiya region. The prime minister, Abiy
The Chinese Communist Party’s new security law has criminalized any actions it deems to be subversion, secession, terrorism, and collusion with foreign entities in Hong Kong. The law spells an abrupt end to the political freedoms that Hong Kongers used to enjoy. ities Friday raided the offices of a research and polling institute
Jack Charlton, a World Cup winner with England and former Republic of Ireland boss, has died aged . The former Leeds defender had been diagnosed with lymphoma in the last year and also had dementia. One of English football s most popular characters, he was in the team that won the World Cup
Image caption Ireland and Germany have launched apps based on Google and Apple s technology, but England remains wary This morning I installed Ireland s just-released contact-tracing app on my phone, where it joined Germany s Corona Warn-App, which was released three weeks ago. The Republic s Covid Tracker software is also the
President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case that was central to the Russia investigation and that concerned the president s own conduct. The move came Saturday, just days before Stone was to begin serving a -month prison sentence
Vendors of artificial intelligence technology should not be shielded by intellectual property claims and will have to disclose elements of their designs and be able to explain how their offering works in order to establish accountability, according to a leading official from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. “I don’t know how you
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a bid from to challenge a class-action lawsuit against the company over s handling of automatic text messages.was sued by a man who received text message notifications from the platform despite never having a account, violating an anti-robocall law. argues that they were sent by mistake.claimed
Coronavirus infection rates continue to rise, with the number of new cases climbing in dozens of states and the U.S. reporting record numbers of cases on individual days. Hospitalization across the U.S. has dramatically jumped; some cities are seeing surges that threaten to overwhelm their health care systems. Meanwhile, the demonstrations over the