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12:37 p.m. ET, February 22, 2024 Telecom experts tell CNN that outages typically happen for mundane reasons From CNN’s Brian Fung While Thursday’s AT&T outage grabbed national headlines, outages do happen and usually for mundane reasons, several telecom experts told CNN. Common causes include construction-related digging that punctures fiber optic cables and software misconfigurations that can […]
Footnotes 1. “Reception and Departure of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment,” Boston Evening Transcript, May 28, 1863, 2. 2. Luis F. Emilio, A Brave Black Regiment: History of The Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1863-1865 (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1995), 34. 3. The New South (Beaufort, SC). June 20, 1863, 2. 4. Emilio, A […]
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The Secret Service vehicle was assigned to Naomi Biden, Joe Biden’s granddaughter Two teenagers have been arrested for breaking into a Secret Service car assigned to US President Joe Biden’s granddaughter late last year.
The United States Secret Service is looking to recruit current college and graduate students from Connecticut. From February 26-29, Secret Service recruiters will be on the University of Hartford campus conducting interviews, physical fitness tests, and written examinations to find the ideal candidates. The process is open to students from all colleges in Connecticut. “We’re […]
U.S. District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, was honored with a U.S. postal stamp in her image, unveiled on Wednesday as the 47th in the Black Heritage series. The unveiling came at the Black History Month celebration in Hempstead at the Joysetta & Julius Pearse African […]
Black History Month: US Postal Service commemorates the Underground Railroad – CBS Miami Watch CBS News The US Postal Service announced a series of stamps honoring 10 people who assisted with the Underground Railroad, the secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, […]
Washington — Three American service members were killed and dozens more were injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on a base in Jordan on Sunday, President Biden and the U.S. military said. In a statement, the president blamed the attack on “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.” Mr. Biden said the […]
African American Memorial Day Observations From Reconstruction to World War I In the decades following the Civil War, the role of African Americans in the celebration of Memorial Day remained a large one, especially in the South. Throughout the Reconstruction era, African Americans made up the vast majority of the day’s observers in the South, […]
The CPS, sponsored by the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), shows dramatic increases since 1964 in educational attainment among the nation’s Black or African American population. The percentage of Black or African American students graduating from high school increased from 25.7% in 1964 to 90.3% in 2021. Many of these high school […]
A drone attack by an Iran-affiliated terrorist group on a military base in Iraq early Monday morning left three U.S. service members wounded, the Pentagon said, and prompted President Biden to order retaliatory strikes. The attack on the Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq was conducted by Kataib Hezbollah militants, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin […]