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Twitter, Spotify and Netflix Among Websites Downed in Massive Internet Outage
If you had trouble reading your Twitter timeline or listening to your favorite Spotify playlist Friday morning, you are not alone. Major sites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Netflix and Etsy were down Friday morning after hackers unleashed a major distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack on servers at Dyn, a major DNS host. Domain…
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DOJ Proposes Citizens Advisory Commission in North Charleston, S.C.
Seeking to improve relationships between the community and police, a proposal for a citizen’s advisory committee will be presented to North Charleston next month. The U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Office will present the proposal for the North Charleston Citizen’s Advisory Commission on Community/Police Relations Nov. 4 at Royal Baptist Church in North Charleston,…
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Police Officer Who Killed Walter Scott Wants Change of Venue for Trial
The former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged in the death of a black motorist is asking the court for a change of venue in his state trial. The Charleston Post and Courier reports that attorneys for Michael Slager filed a motion Tuesday asking the court to move Slager’s state murder trial out of Charleston.…
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Report: Student Loan Debt Up 4 Percent
Undergraduate students are leaving school with an average of $30,000 in student loan debt, a new study shows. Consumerist reports that the latest annual student debt survey from the Institute for College Access & Success found that nearly 7 out of 10 seniors graduating from four-year public and nonprofit colleges in 2015 owed an average…
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Facial-Recognition Technology Affects African Americans More Often
A Georgetown University think tank and the American Civil Liberties Union, along with 52 other civil liberties organizations, are urging the U.S. Department of Justice to look into the way federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies use face-recognition technology, which they say is having a “disparate impact on communities of color.” On Tuesday the Georgetown…
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2 Inmates Have Died in ‘Preventable Deaths’ at Striking Prisons
Two prison inmates have died at two separate facilities where inmates were participating in a national prison strike, and organizers say the deaths were preventable. Charles Lee Johnson died Oct. 10 at Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Mich., and his death is being investigated by police, BuzzFeed News reports. Last month, 400 Kinross inmates took…
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Melania Trump: Donald Was ‘Egged on’ to Say ‘Dirty and Bad Stuff’
Melania Trump says she has never heard her husband use the kind of language he is heard using in a 2005 video, and she questions the integrity of the women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. “I believe my husband. I believe my husband,” she said in an interview with CNN’s…
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High School Graduation Rates in US Reach Record High
Federal data released Monday shows that the nation’s high school graduation rate rose again during the 2014-2015 school year, reaching a record high as more than 83 percent of students earned their diplomas on time. The Washington Post reports that gains were made in every student group, including low-income, black, white, Asian, Hispanic and Native…
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President of Police-Chiefs Association Apologizes for Historical Mistreatment of Minorities
The president of a police-chiefs association apologized Monday for the role that police have played in society’s “historical mistreatment of communities of color.” Speaking at the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in San Diego, the association’s president, Terrence Cunningham, said that when it comes to how officers relate to minority…
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Regrets Criticizing Colin Kaepernick
After previously saying that Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protests were “dumb” and “disrespectful,” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had a change of heart. On Friday afternoon, the liberal justice said in a released statement that she should not have denounced the NFL quarterback’s silent protests, the Los Angeles Times reports. “Barely aware of…
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