Sunday, July 23, 2017

Hacking Attack Woke Up Dallas With Emergency Sirens, Officials Say and other top stories.

  • Hacking Attack Woke Up Dallas With Emergency Sirens, Officials Say

    Hacking Attack Woke Up Dallas With Emergency Sirens, Officials Say
    Photo Warning sirens in Dallas, meant to alert the public to emergencies like severe weather, started sounding around 11:40 p.m. Friday, and were not shut off until 1:20 a.m. Credit Rex C. Curry for The New York Times Officials in Dallas said the city’s warning system was hacked late on Friday night, disrupting the city when all 156 of its emergency sirens sounded into the early hours of Saturday morning.The alarms, which started going off around 11:40 p.m. Friday and l..
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  • How Republicans learned to love Obama

    How Republicans learned to love Obama
    Republicans never knew how much they loved Barack Obama. Three months into Donald Trump’s presidency, congressional Republicans enter a two-week Easter recess without a major legislative victory to brag about to voters back home. While they used to blame the ex-president for all their problems — pointing the finger at a Democratic White House for their inability to pass GOP priorities — their beloved scapegoat is gone.Story Continued Below That means they now bear responsibility for the party’..
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  • Alabama governor will face impeachment hearings after state Supreme Court ruling

    Alabama governor will face impeachment hearings after state Supreme Court ruling
    The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Saturday to allow lawmakers to move ahead with an effort to oust Gov. Robert Bentley, who is fighting to stay in office amid fallout from an affair with a top aide. Bentley will face impeachment hearings beginning on Monday. The state Supreme Court reversed a short-lived victory for Bentley when a judge on Friday blocked impeachment proceedings. After the high court's ruling, the House Judiciary Committee quickly announced plans to proceed with hearings on Mon..
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  • Wisconsin Police Hunt Armed Man Who Allegedly Mailed Manifesto to Trump

    Wisconsin Police Hunt Armed Man Who Allegedly Mailed Manifesto to Trump
    Wisconsin police were widening their hunt Saturday for a 32-year-old man who allegedly burglarized a gun store after mailing an anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump. Joseph Jakubowski has been on the run since Tuesday, when police say he broke into the Armageddon Gun Shop in Janesville, south of Madison, and stole 16 high-caliber rifles and handguns. He is believed to be armed and dangerous, and traveling with a bulletproof vest and helmet, according to authorities. At a new..
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  • He lobbied for gay rights and opposed Trump — now Seattle's mayor is accused of sexually assaulting minors

    He lobbied for gay rights and opposed Trump — now Seattle's mayor is accused of sexually assaulting minors
    Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has been accused of sexually assaulting and molesting several teenage boys in the 1980s. (Elaine Thompson/AP) Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, a nationally famous champion of gay rights and progressive causes, has been accused by three men of having sex with them as children. An unnamed man filed a child sex abuse lawsuit against the mayor on Thursday, alleging Murray “repeatedly criminally raped and molested” him when he was a homeless 15-year-old in the 1980s. The unnamed p..
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  • 2 inmates charged with killing 4 in South Carolina prison

    2 inmates charged with killing 4 in South Carolina prison
    Jacob Philip and another inmate allegedly lured each inmate into a cell at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia and worked together to choke all four of them. (The Associated Press). THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Updated: Saturday, April 8, 2017, 8:28 ...
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UPDATED | Man critically injured in shooting at Lexington home .UPDATE 4-China bird flu deaths surge in what could be the worst season ever .
Shots fired overnight in Lexington .Lexington must counter divisiveness .

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