Scattered showers Saturday
Dry end to Friday with more rain chances arriving Saturday evening!
Day: October 21, 2023
Weather warnings have been issued across the UK as Storm Babet continues into the weekend.
A third person has died as Storm Babet swept across the country causing widespread flooding and high winds which forced a passenger plane to skid off a runway. A man in his 60s died after getting caught in fast-flowing flood water in the town of Cleobu…
Hamas releases two Americans it held captive in Gaza
Judith and Natalie Raanan of Illinois were visiting Israel for a family birthday and the High Holy Days when they were taken captive by the militant group Oct. 7.
French intelligence points to Palestinian rocket, not Israeli airstrike, for Gaza hospital blast
An assessment by French military intelligence indicates the most likely cause of the deadly explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital was a Palestinian rocket that carried an explosive charge of about 5 kilograms (11 pounds) and possibly misfired, a se…
Windows 11 Pro’s On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up To 45%
An anonymous reader shares a Tom’s Hardware report: Unfortunately, a default setting in Windows 11 Pro, having its software BitLocker encryption enabled, robs as much as 45 percent of the speed from your SSD as it forces your processor to encrypt and d…
Former congressman says his family members were killed in Israeli airstrike
On Friday, former Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) posted to social media that members of his family had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.”I was really worried about this,” wrote Amash, the first Palestinian-American to represent Michigan in Congre…
French Intel Says No Sign Gaza Hospital Blast Was ‘Israeli Strike’
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Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US’s first public religious school
Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general has filed a lawsuit to stop what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school.
Israel-Hamas war: A different view on protests in U.S.
Re: “Language around ‘Day of Resistance and Protest’ leaves Jews fearful” [Oct. 18, Opinion]: Randy Kessler’s Op-Ed does not speak for all Jews. I have been at three protests recently, one convened by Palestinians and two by Jews. Each of these gatheri…
Another Seattle drugstore will close. This time it’s a Walgreens
It is the first known local Walgreens closure in the Seattle area since the Illinois-based company said in June it would close 150 stores in the U.S.