H&R Block customers faced outages ahead of tax day deadline R Block customers dealt with hours of outages ahead of the tax day deadline on Monday night, the tax filing service confirmed on social media. In a post on the social platform X around ... 04/15/2024 - 1:14 pm | View Link
WHITE HOUSE Gen. Christopher Cavoli told lawmakers that “the side that can’t shoot back loses,” as a massive aid package for Ukraine remains stalled in the House. The Supreme Court’s pending review of ... 04/13/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Playbook: Harris takes the gloves off in Arizona At an event in Tucson, Arizona today, VP Kamala Harris will meet with women and doctors who have been affected by the state’s sudden and near-total ban on abortion — and she’ll explicitly blame Donald ... 04/11/2024 - 11:12 pm | View Link
White House directs NASA to create time standard for the moon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, as the United States aims to set international ... 04/2/2024 - 12:59 pm | View Link
White House bashes 'dishonest' Republican criticism of Biden's transgender proclamation on Easter Easter's date happened to coincide with the Transgender Day of Visibility. The White House is pushing back against top Republicans' misleading criticism of President Joe Biden for issuing a ... 04/1/2024 - 3:09 am | View Link
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.
Israel launched a retaliatory strike against a site in Iran late Thursday night (early Friday morning local time), U. S. officials confirmed to several media outlets, though an Iranian official has downplayed the attack as a “failed and humiliating” drone strike.
ABC News, CBS News, NPR, and others have cited unnamed U.
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
Several students involved in the protest said they also were suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of Democratic U.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment.
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The request came as NATO’s Deputy General Secretary Mircea Geoana held talks in Brussels on regional security challenges with visiting Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri.
Geoana said he welcomed Argentina’s bid to become an accredited partner in the alliance—a valued role short of “ally” for nations that are not in NATO’s geographical area and not required to take part in collective military actions.
A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.
The patient, a 72-year-old man with a blood disorder, failed to mount a strong immune response to multiple Covid shots before catching the omicron variant in February 2022.