Facebook’s main apps experienced widespread problems on Monday, cutting off access for people around the world to some of the internet’s most widely used services. There were numerous reports of users unable to view or post on the main Facebook and Instagram apps, send messages through the Messenger and WhatsApp services, or reach the website…
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Fans of Strictly Come Dancing have taken to social media to praise the show for featuring its very first deaf contestant, Rose Ayling-Ellis. A few weeks ago, the show premiered the long-awaited season 19 and revealed all 15 celebrities and their dancing partners. Like last year, there are still some restrictions in place for the contestants to…
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Black women in California are more likely to die within a year of pregnancy than women of other races, prompting a wave of policy changes this year in the nation’s most populous state that culminated on Monday with Califronia Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a new law aimed at reducing the disparity. The law,…
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CLEVELAND — Opening statements are scheduled for Monday afternoon in Cleveland in a federal court trial to determine whether retail pharmacy chains created a public nuisance in how they dispensed addictive painkillers in two Ohio counties where the opioid crisis continues to rage. One of the attorneys representing Lake and Trumbull counties outside Cleveland has…
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A new government watchdog report offers more doubt about the effectiveness of a heavily criticized Medicare provider payment program. The Merit-based Incentive Payment System scores physicians and other providers based on quality and cost measures uses those scores to adjust future Medicare payments. Congress and President Barack Obama established MIPS in a 2015 law intended…
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Boris Johnson’s pledge to make Britain’s electricity system “net zero carbon” by 2035 would be “extremely challenging” to achieve in just 14 years and would likely require a continued role for natural gas, according to energy analysts. The warning came as environmental groups welcomed the prime minister’s commitment, which was announced in a speech by…
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Global airlines have committed to reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050, an ambitious challenge for the heavily polluting industry as it begins to recover from the crisis caused by Covid-19. The target was agreed by members of the International Air Transport Association on Monday, and came as the industry faced growing pressure to take…
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Facebook is in hot water once again. A whistleblower has accused the social media giant of placing profit above controls on hate speech and misinformation. The company describes the allegations as “misleading”. They deliver another blow to Facebook’s reputation. This has taken repeated hits since the Cambridge Analytica scandal three years ago. The row has…
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The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or consent as part of “a racially unjust medical system.” The estate’s federal lawsuit says Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., of Waltham, Massachusetts, knowingly…
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Global airlines have committed to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, an ambitious challenge for the heavily polluting industry as it begins to recover from the crisis caused by Covid-19. The target was agreed by members of the International Air Transport Association on Monday, and came as the industry faced growing pressure to take new…
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