U.S. News
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By JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press Traveling by plane, train or automobile can be a headache. Mixing in Thanksgiving can make it a throbbing migraine. Technology provides some pain relief in the form of apps to…
November 28, 2014 -
By JUSTIN PRITCHARD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Against the team of hackers, the poor car stood no chance. Meticulously overwhelming its computer networks, the hackers showed that — given time — they would…
November 26, 2014 -
SUE MANNING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pet owners looking to launch the next Internet sensation or just longing for a new view of their dog’s dashing and digging won’t have to shop for…
November 20, 2014 -
MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest solar power plant of its type in the world — once promoted as a turning point in green energy — isn’t producing as much…
November 19, 2014 -
DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Pay phones on New York City streets would become a thing of the past under a plan announced Monday that would replace them with stand-alone devices offering…
November 19, 2014 -
JOHN ROGERS LOS ANGELES (AP) — With his infant son clinging to life, Chris Picco picked up a guitar and sang softly to the boy, urging him to “mend those broken wings and learn to…
November 15, 2014 -
JACK GILLUM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — AT&T Mobility, the nation’s second-largest cellular provider, said Friday it’s no longer attaching hidden Internet tracking codes to data transmitted from its users’ smartphones. The practice made it…
November 15, 2014 -
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The director of the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Healthcare System has been fired. The move comes a month after officials determined that she had committed “conduct unbecoming a senior executive,” along with wasteful…
November 13, 2014 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Google is launching a campaign to help fight Ebola by contributing $2 for every dollar people donate to a slew of nonprofits such as Save the Children and the Doctors Without…
November 11, 2014 -
BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — So, what exactly is 4Chan? 4chan’s roots date back to a pre-Facebook age of the Internet, where anonymity ruled and rules were few to come by.…
November 10, 2014 -
MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Can Old Faithful compete with Netflix? The prospect of streaming wireless service deep inside Yellowstone National Park is re-igniting the debate over whether there should be any…
November 05, 2014 -
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The National Park Service says it has found more graffiti in some of the West’s most scenic locations in a case that sparked an uproar on social media last week.…
October 31, 2014 -
BY BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Personal information about more than 18.5 million Californians was hacked, stolen or otherwise exposed last year and as many as one-third of those people…
October 29, 2014 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Security will be increased at various federal government buildings in Washington and other major American cities, the Homeland Security Department announced Tuesday in what it described as a “precautionary step.” The move…
October 29, 2014 -
NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Oct. 29 about Apple Inc.’s new payment system, The Associated Press misattributed a quotation from an Apple Pay user in Indianapolis. The speaker was Thomas Pritchard, not Ben…
October 29, 2014