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Thousands of customers reported problems with Capital One due to an outage to online services that began Wednesday and continued into the weekend.On at least two separate occasions Friday afternoon, nearly 4,000 customers each reported problems completing transactions with Capital One, a credit card and banking company based in McLean, Va., according to Down Detector, a website that tracks outages web and applications.In a statement shared by Capital One’s customer service account on social media, the company said Thursday that a “technical issue with a third-party vendor” was “temporarily impacting certain account services, deposits and payment processing for portions of…
The incoming Trump administration and the Biden administration went back and forth on Saturday over TikTok’s status and whether to ban the service after the video app said it would be forced to “go dark” on Sunday when a federal the law applies.President-elect Donald J. Trump told NBC News that he will “probably” find a way to give the company a 90-day extension once he takes office on Monday “because it’s appropriate.”Earlier on Saturday, the White House spokesman called TikTok’s claim that it would go dark a “gimmick.” TikTok, in a statement late Friday, had called on the Biden administration…
Although the embrace of Mr. Kennedy on recovery farms may be new, the idea stretches back nearly a century. In 1935, the government opened the United States Drug Farm in Lexington, Ky., to research and treat addiction. Over the years, residents have included Chet Baker and William S. Burroughs (who depicted the institution in his novel, “Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict”). The program had high relapse rates and was contaminated by human drug trials. By 1975, as local treatment centers began to proliferate across the country, the program was closed.In America, therapeutic communities for addiction treatment became popular…
Fifteen years ago, in search of reconnection and to fuel our flames in the bedroom, my husband and I abandoned our three children for a “Better Communication, Better Sex” couples weekend at the Miraval Arizona Resort & Spa in Tucson . Ariz. There were separate workshops for women and men, a detailed review of anatomy, exercises to encourage affection and expression, and nightly “homework,” with accessories provided (think a feather and some massage oil). End result: The fire is still burning.It turns out we were at the forefront of a recent sexual wellness trend, where relationship experts, body therapists, and…
Israel is set to release more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners during the initial 42-day truce under the terms of the deal, starting with at least 90 on Sunday, in exchange for three Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.The Israelis say many of the prisoners are terrorists and murderers. Many Palestinians see the imprisoned activists as freedom fighters against Israeli rule and argue that others were imprisoned by an unfair Israeli military justice system.Here are several of the most prominent Palestinian prisoners to be released under the truce, according to Israel’s Justice Ministry.Zakaria ZoumbeidisFor the past two decades, Zakaria Zubeidi,…
The most famous beast sculpture in the college town of Athens, Ga., isn’t — probably — a bulldog. It is an 11-foot-tall welded steel horse, an abstract maze of ripples and crescents, created at the University of Georgia by a visiting Chicago sculptor, Abbott Pattison, in 1954.When a crane first lifted Pattison’s mammoth from the basement of the university’s Fine Arts building that spring, it was unlike anything the campus had seen before, with a cage in the middle of pointed ribs, planes, cubic planes and a wavy, square – except mane and tail. It was recognizably a horse, but…
A few weeks ago, I had dinner at LaSorted’s in Chinatown, eating pizza and drinking wine with my husband while our toddler nibbled on a crust and threw some salad leaves on the floor. When I walked in last Wednesday — as thousands of acres of Los Angeles were still burning — the dining room was almost unrecognizable, its wobbly tables reconfigured into a makeshift kitchen.Pizzerias from all over the city crowded in, unpacking supplies and folding boxes. The line out the door looked like diners waiting for tables—blue Dodgers hats, oversized vintage buttons, insider T-shirts—but this was a crew…
The first time Jean Jennings encountered the Mexican federal police, she had just arrested one of her friends for public urination.It was 1983 and he was participating in an eight-vehicle test along Baja California, which he had joined as a writer for Car and Driver magazine. Thinking quickly, she called her friend cherdo – a pig – and spoke to the police about a fine.A few days later, police caught them speeding outside La Paz, near the bottom of the peninsula. escaped a ticket by showing officers his fancy Datsun electronic voice system. Still later, he was arrested when he…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s health services, formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval of all vaccines during a deadly phase of the pandemic when thousands of Americans he was still dying every week.Mr. Kennedy filed a petition with the FDA in May 2021 demanding that officials withdraw approval for the shots and refrain from approving any Covid vaccine in the future.Just six months earlier, Mr. Trump had declared the Covid vaccines a miracle. While Mr. Kennedy filed the petition, half of American adults were getting their shots. Schools…
An interracial couple from Arizona has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines claiming they were taken into custody by law enforcement after the husband was falsely suspected of trafficking his wife by two airline employees and another passenger on their flight.The incident took place in September 2022, on an American flight from Phoenix to Miami. Anthony Williams, a black retired police officer, and his wife, Katsiarina Sasolka, who is white and a Russian national, were headed for their honeymoon, according to the federal lawsuit filed last week in the Southern District of Florida.In the lawsuit, the couple claims another passenger…