Author: THE WASHINGTON POST
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Sen. Rand Paul tests positive for coronavirus, his office says
Sen. Rand Paul has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, his office announced in a tweet Sunday. Paul (R-Ky.) is the third member of Congress and the first senator to test positive for the virus. Last week, Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) and Ben McAdams (D-Utah) announced they had tested positive. “Senator Rand Paul has tested…
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The best year for movies was …
Many critics are calling 2018 a great year for movies, and with rich material from “Roma” to “Eighth Grade” to “The Favourite” to “A Star is Born,” that’s a hard position to oppose. But many years have felt monumental while we lived them and then proceeded to fade with time. • Some years just stick…
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2018 was the year of 5G hype. The 5G reality is yet to come.
When T-Mobile’s chief executive went before Senate lawmakers this year to make the case for his company’s merger with Sprint, he argued that the deal could help preserve U.S. dominance in high-tech wireless networks for smartphones and other devices. “We’ll make sure America wins the global 5G race,” John Legere vowed. “5G will unlock capabilities…
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Mortgage rates continue their slide
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Mortgage rates continued their retreat, helped by volatility in the financial markets and weakened inflation expectations. According to data released by Freddie Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate average slipped to 4.62 percent with an average 0.4 point. It was 4.63 percent a week ago and 3.94 percent a year ago. The 30-year fixed rate has fallen…
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Williams-Sonoma sues Amazon over knockoffs
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For Christmas, Williams- Sonoma got Amazon the gift that truly keeps on giving: a federal lawsuit. In a complaint filed Dec. 14, the home goods company accused Amazon.com of selling unauthorized Williams-Sonoma merchandise on its website. It also claimed the retail giant “unfairly and deceptively engaged in a widespread campaign of copying” designs of its…
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Hateful and violent videos are a sliver of the content YouTube removes
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YouTube removed 7.8 million videos and 1.6 million channels in the third quarter of this year, mostly for spreading spam or posting inappropriate adult content, the company said Thursday. The Community Guidelines Enforcement Report comes amid growing questions, including in a congressional hearing Tuesday, about how YouTube monitors and deletes problematic content from the platform,…
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Fears about AI ‘very legitimate,’ Google CEO says
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai, head of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, said in an interview last week that concerns about harmful applications of the technology are “very legitimate,” but the tech industry should be trusted to responsibly regulate its use. Speaking last week, Pichai said that new AI tools, the backbone of…
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Senate begins debate on ending U.S. support for Saudi-led war in Yemen
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WASHINGTON • The Senate voted Wednesday to formally start debating a measure to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, setting up what is likely to be the first among several bipartisan rebukes of President Trump’s support for Saudi Arabia that senators hope to deliver. The 60-37 vote exceeded the expectations of the…
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow enforcement of asylum ban
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WASHINGTON • The Trump administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce a new policy of denying asylum to those who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border, a change that lower courts have declared likely illegal. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled 2 to 1…
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Air Force failed 6 times to keep guns from Texas church shooter before he killed 26, report finds
The 26 worshipers whom Devin Patrick Kelley shot and killed may not have seen him coming. But the Air Force did. The service failed six times to submit records to the FBI that would have barred the troubled former airman from buying the guns he used in the November 2017 massacre at a church in…