• McDonald's apologises for global shut downs

    McDonald’s has apologised for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours. The company said the outage was caused by a third-party technology provider and was not a cybersecurity issue. It started around midnight local time during a configuration change and was close to being resolved about 12 hours later, the Chicago-based company […]

  • Government blocks plans for solar farm in Northamptonshire

    Local government minister says the project near Gayton would cause "major visual harm".

  • Plastic Pollution and Global Warming are an Endless, Vicious Cycle

    The intertwining of global warming and plastic pollution has been revealed through a study conducted by researchers in Sweden.

  • Budd: Democrats would rather shut down government than do the right thing

    (The Center Square) – U.S. Sen. Ted Budd said taxpayers’ $1.2 trillion spending bill passing into law early Saturday was fought over two principles, both involving the ongoing problems at the southern border. “If an illegal alien harms a police officer, they should get deported,” the North Carolina Republican wrote on social media. “If an illegal alien commits the crime of theft or shoplifting, they get detained. Democrats would rather shut down the government than do the right...

  • House GOP would rather shut down the government than fix the border

    Republicans are so intent on creating more chaos at the border that they’re risking another partial government shutdown. There’s agreement on five of the six funding bills that need to pass by Friday in order to avert a shutdown, but the House GOP’s refusal to adequately fund the Department of Homeland Security threatens everything. “Republicans want to underfund DHS, which makes the border less secure and the country less safe,” a White House official told Politico Sunday. Republicans are...

  • Global warming has slightly slowed Earth's rotation — and it could affect how we measure time

    Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time. A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend driven primarily by human-caused climate change — has caused the Earth to spin less quickly than it would otherwise. The author of the study, Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, said that as ice at the poles melts, it changes where...

  • Global warming and plastic pollution entwined in vicious circle, researchers say

    Typically viewed as unrelated problems, global warming and plastic pollution are instead inextricably trapped in a "vicious circle" where one feeds the other, researchers in Sweden report in Nature Communications. The mutually-reinforcing relationship escalates global warming, the degradation of materials, plastic waste and the leaching of toxic chemicals into the biosphere.

  • McDonald’s apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours

    LONDON (AP) — McDonald's apologized Friday for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours. The company said the outage was caused by a third-party technology provider and was not a cybersecurity issue. It started around 12 a.m. CDT during a configuration change and was close to being resolved about 12 hours later, []

  • McDonald’s apologizes for global system outage that shut down some stores for hours

    McDonald’s has apologized for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours. The Chicago-based company said the outage was caused by a third-party technology provider. It says the outage started around 12 a.m. CDT on Friday during a configuration change and was close to being resolved about 12 hours later, said. Earlier in the day, system failures were reported worldwide, shuttering some restaurants for hours. The website Downdetector also reported a spike in problems with...

  • Government partially shuts down as Senate fails to take up $1.2T spending package in time

    The Senate failed to pass a $1.2T government spending package that was approved by the House earlier on Friday, ushering in a partial government shutdown. The upper chamber's Republicans and Democrats did not reach a deal in which they would forego a lengthy period of debate and swiftly take a vote on the spending bills in time to avoid the shutdown. Due to disagreements between the parties on whether to consider several amendments, the bills weren't passed prior to the 12:01 a.m. deadline on...

  • Global sea levels jumped due to El Nino and warming climate, says NASA

    Global average sea level rose by about 0.3 inches (0.76 centimeters) from 2022 to 2023

  • Manipur CMO website ‘voluntarily’ suspended to comply with poll code, says state government

    The BJP government in the state said that reports of the portal being suspended by the Election Commission for a poll code violation were incorrect.