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LONDON/WASHINGTON — A global ransomware outbreak has scrambled servers belonging to the U.S. state of Florida’s Supreme Court and several universities in the United States and Central Europe, according to a Reuters analysis of ransom notes posted online to stricken servers. Those organizations are among more than 3,800 victims of a fast-spreading digital extortion campaign that […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden followed up his State of the Union address with a trip Wednesday to the Midwestern state of Wisconsin to herald what he sees as the country’s economic advance on his watch. Opposition Republicans, meanwhile, were calling for an end to what they call runaway government spending that Biden has sanctioned […]
BERLIN — A lawsuit against BMW BMWG.DE by German climate NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe demanding the carmaker tighten its carbon emission reduction targets was unfounded, Munich’s district court said on Tuesday, but the NGO said it planned to appeal. The heads of Deutsche Umwelthilfe called in their lawsuit on BMW to end production of combustion engine cars […]
WHITE HOUSE — President Joe Biden stares down his second State of the Union address with a disappointing report card: a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 62% of Americans think he’s accomplished “not very much” or “little to nothing” in two years on the job. Tuesday night is his chance to appear before a joint session […]
Looking cool is just the tip of the iceberg for Mikaela Shiffrin, Travis Ganong and the rest of the U.S. ski team when they debut new race suits at the world championships. Even more, they want everyone thinking about climate change. The team’s predominantly blue-and-white suits depict an image of ice chunks floating in the […]
BOSTON — The Arctic air that descended on the Northeast on Saturday brought dangerously cold sub-zero temperatures and wind chills to the region, including a record-setting wind chill of minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 78 C) on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. In addition to the U.S. record low wind chill, the Mount […]
WASHINGTON — A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon Saturday, after it spent nearly a week floating over U.S. territory. The airship fell into the Atlantic Ocean, about 10 kilometers off the coast of the U.S. state of South Carolina. China’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the U.S. action was “an […]
WASHINGTON — A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during the Trump administration has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under Trump’s widely condemned practice of […]
WASHINGTON — America’s employers added a robust 517,000 jobs in January, a surprisingly strong gain in the face of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive drive to slow growth and tame inflation with higher interest rates. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.4%, a new half-century low. Friday’s government report added to the picture of a resilient labor market, […]
President Joe Biden’s administration said on Wednesday it would support a scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips’ planned $6 billion Willow oil and gas drilling project in Alaska but has not yet made a final decision on the contentious proposal. The Willow project’s fate is being closely watched by both the oil and gas industry and environmental […]
