WASHINGTON – Twitter is becoming the platform of choice for Chinese diplomats abroad to promote Beijing’s views and defend its position on controversial issues, despite the social media platform being blocked in China itself. But their messages, while supported by some netizens, are often met with acerbic pushback from analysts, human rights advocates and even […]
Demonstrations calling for Ricardo Rossello’s resignation continue for a third day as backlash over group chat grows. Thousands of people have taken to the streets for a third consecutive day in Puerto Rico demanding the immediate resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello. The protests in the US territory began after a group chat on the Telegram messaging […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] A couple from Ohio pushed a shopping cart filled with their tattered belongings toward West 34th Street as tourists crowded beside them. An older man from Massachusetts nodded off outside Pennsylvania Station, which 600,000 people pass through daily. Nearby, […]
An Instagram star was almost decapitated by her boyfriend who then posted grisly pictures of her corpse online, according to police. "E-girl" Bianca Devins, 17, was found dead after social media users began sharing photos of her body. Bianca's 21-year-old boyfriend, low-level Instagram influencer Brandon Andrew Clark, allegedly slit her throat and posted an image […]
US president Donald Trump yesterday called on a group of minority, liberal congresswomen to “apologise” to the United States, Israel and to him a day after he said in inflammatory tweets that they should “go back” to their countries. “When will the Radical Left Congresswomen apologise to our Country, the people of Israel and even […]
A woman who went missing at a campsite near the California-Nevada border was found alive Monday after four days of intense searching through rough and remote terrain. Sheryl Powell, 60, of Huntington Beach, California, was reported missing by her husband Friday afternoon at the Grandview Campsite near Bishop, California, according to the Inyo County Sheriff’s […]
Bianca Devins, 17, traveled hours from her home in upstate New York on Saturday night to go to a concert in New York City with a young man she’d been seeing, the police said. In the morning, Ms. Devins was found dead, lying on the ground next to an S.U.V., back in her hometown, Utica. […]
Spending too much time on social media or watching television is linked to increased symptoms of depression among teens, a new study suggests. Researchers conducted a four-year study of more than 3,800 adolescents between Grades 7 and 11 in the Montreal area. The findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, indicate that the longer young […]
BC Hydro crews are investigating a power outage affecting nearly all of downtown Vernon. The outage started just after 4:15 p.m. on Monday and has affected over 2,300 customers, both homes and businesses. Areas south of 37 Avenue, north of Highway 6, west of Bodwell Road and east of 27 Avenue are without electricity and […]
National retailer Moore’s Clothing for Men is calling on Canadians to clean out their closets in a bid to help men and women in need who are trying to get back to work. The 10th annual Suit Drive collects gently used professional attire such as suits, shirts, dresses and shoes. The donated clothing then gets […]