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WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday it was resuming a disaster prevention program it canceled last year and reopening it to funding applications following legal setbacks. U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns ruled in December that President Donald Trump’s administration had unlawfully terminated the FEMA grant program designed …
But it may be too soon to tell whether litigation will change the way popular social media and messaging platforms function — or influence the complex algorithms that deliver content to billions of users worldwide. Here are looming questions as related lawsuits approach trial. Will these verdicts harm Meta’s business? The answer is not really …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Yankees’ José Caballero lost the first challenge taken to Major League Baseball’s so-called robot umpire, unsuccessfully appealing a strike by San Francisco Giants right-hander Logan Webb in Wednesday night’s season opener won 7-0 by New York. Webb started the fourth inning with a 90.7 mph sinker on the upper, inner …
All but four of the passengers injured in Sunday’s deadly collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck have been released from the hospital, the airline said Wednesday, as crews began moving the mangled aircraft off the runway at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. A spokesperson for the Port Authority of New York and …
Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart on their YouTube success – CBS News Watch CBS News The two Internet stars have unconventional success stories, and owe it all to YouTube. Norah O’Donnell sits down with the ladies who say they do not consider themselves celebrities.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco fire crews rescued a woman Wednesday who had gone over a cliff and was stuck on the rocks with waves crashing below. It was not immediately known how the unidentified woman ended up clinging to the rocks by the Cliff House, a well-known landmark perched above Ocean Beach on …
VAUX-DE-CERNAY, France, March 26 (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from the world’s leading Western democracies meet in France this week against the backdrop of wars in Iranand Ukraine, economic uncertainty, and mounting unease over an increasingly unpredictable U.S. foreign policy. The two-day gathering at the restored 12th-century Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, about 40 km (25 miles) southwest …
BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 14 of his 31 points a pivotal third quarter and the Boston Celtics rallied to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 119-109 on Wednesday night, snapping the defending champions’ 12-game win streak. Jayson Tatum recovered from back-to-back rocky performances to add 19 points and 12 rebounds while also contributing seven …
TAIPEI, March 26 (Reuters) – Taiwan Defence Minister Wellington Koo on Thursday indicated the next arms sale package from the United States is on track after the government received a letter of guarantee from Washington, even as the U.S. and Chinese leaders prepare to meet in May. A major U.S. arms package for Taiwan worth …
JAKARTA, March 26 (Reuters) – A senior officer in the Indonesian military has stepped down following an acid attack on an activist known for his opposition to the expanded role of the military, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Andrie Yunus, a deputy coordinator with the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, a rights …