Verizon customers across Southern California faced widespread service outages Sunday after vandals targeted and cut multiple fiber lines, leaving residents and emergency networks disconnected across the region. The damage affected wireless and internet service for customers in LA and surrounding areas, with outage reports surfacing early Sunday morning in the San Fernando Valley and beyond, KTLA reports. A Verizon spokesperson confirmed the service disruptions stem from deliberate physical damage to critical communications infrastructure but did not specify the exact locations of the cuts or the total number of impacted subscribers. Sign up for the California Morning Report newsletter California’s top…
Controversial new Flock cameras have been installed across Yosemite despite mass surveillance concerns. The devices, which read drivers’ license plates, were erected in six locations across the sprawling national park last month, online tool DeFlock.org revealed. It comes amid heightened scrutiny over the system, with vigilantes yanking them down in…
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A quartet of witnesses testifying this week to the House Small Business Committee disputed the commonly-held belief that artificial intelligence will displace human workers and insisted that small businesses which use AI are likely to wind up having to hire more employees–because they’ll grow.Already, a majority of small businesses are…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! This may be it.”As you get older, things change in your life. Your children get older. Your parents get older. Just to put this thing into perspective, it’s looking like this is probably potentially going to be my last year,” Philadelphia Eagles…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins and defensive end Maxx Crosby were suspended from team drills at practice Saturday following their fight the day before, giving rookie QB Fernando Mendoza his first opportunity in training camp to run the starting offense.”We have…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68.The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys announced his death in a social media post that…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It is crazy just how much can change from one year to the next, especially in the NFL. We know there are going to be good teams that seem to succeed every year. Sometimes, though, there are teams that are good, but…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Joaquin Niemann has a five-shot lead after two rounds at LIV Golf New York. He appears in total command of all facets of his game and is the only player in the field yet to make a bogey. It’s very reminiscent of…
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“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has started the process of freezing her eggs — and is using a vlog on Instagram to give her lefty fans mundane updates such as her taking hormonal injections. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 36, revealed in a weekend post that she had been saving up for and contemplating…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico bragged in a resurfaced interview that his church had stirred controversy by housing a family of illegal immigrants who were set to be deported by ICE, laughing as he said that “Christianity is just another…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Senate Democrats are rallying around Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed in the race to beat Republican Mike Rogers as the party scrambles to defend its seat in an effort to win back the Senate majority.El-Sayed narrowly defeated moderate Rep. Haley Stevens…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him significant pain, his son Hunter Biden revealed during a Friday interview.”The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” Hunter Biden told the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hawaii voters will decide Saturday who advances to the November general election, with key contests including the race for governor and the battle to represent the state’s 1st Congressional District.Gov. Josh Green, who was first elected in 2022, is heavily favored to…
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Influencer Jen Hamilton celebrated her “Jendependence” by throwing some serious shade over her estranged husband Brian Hamilton’s alleged “double life” with an older woman. “August 4 was going to be a really hard day for me. It was going to be my 14th wedding anniversary. The first one after finding out about my husband’s diabolical betrayal,” Jen, 35, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, August 8. “So I threw a party for all my work friends. So many people showed up! They loved on me so hard and I told them EVERYTHING.” Jen announced her split from Brian after nearly 14…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The two letters purported to be connected to Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abduction leave investigators with questions about their authenticity, but forensic psychologist Dr. Kris Mohandie says investigators made the right call by releasing them because doing so could renew public interest and…
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