IBM’s plan to buy Red Hat is both the biggest acquisition in IBM’s century-long history and a risky effort to position itself as a major player in cloud computing. The $34 billion stock deal translates to $190 per Red Hat share — a 63 percent premium to the closing price Friday for the ...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Google will give away $25 million to projects that propose ways to use the artificial intelligence of computers to help create a more humane society. The grant program is part of a broader Google initiative called “AI for Social Good” that aims to ease concerns that ...
PHILADELPHIA — The widow of a police officer slain almost four decades ago was removed from a courtroom after protesting a judge’s decision to extend the appeal hearing of former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Maureen Faulkner had flown in from ...
NEW YORK — Swastikas scrawled into Jewish students’ notebooks. Headstones toppled and desecrated by vandals at Jewish cemeteries. Jews falsely blamed for challenges facing the nation. The shooting rampage that killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday is ...
WASHINGTON — Grappling with a wave of election-season violence, President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against the news media on Monday even as he made plans for a somber visit to Pennsylvania to mourn a synagogue massacre that left 11 dead. Days after the shooting at a Pittsburgh ...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers in inflatable boats retrieved human remains, pieces of aircraft and personal belongings from the Java Sea on Monday after a new-generation Boeing jet operated by an Indonesian budget airline crashed minutes after takeoff, killing all 189 people on ...
Florida NASA spacecraft sets record CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the sun than any spacecraft has ever gotten. Parker on Monday surpassed the record of 26.6 million miles set by Helios-2 back in 1976. And it will keep getting closer to the sun until it flies ...
Ecuador Judge rules against Assange in case QUITO — An Ecuadorean judge has ruled against a request by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to loosen new requirements he says are meant to push him out of the London embassy where he lives. Judge Karina Martinez ruled Monday that a court ...
The Associated Press LITITZ — Authorities say they are investigating a crash in Pennsylvania that killed two students and injured several other people. Officials in Lancaster County say a driver plowed into several vehicles in Warwick Township shortly before 3:30 p.m. Friday. Dr. Stephen ...
BELLMAWR, N.J. — A quick eye by Goodwill workers in southern New Jersey turned up framed pages from an original 1774 Philadelphia newspaper with an iconic âUnite or Dieã snake design on the masthead. The frayed Dec. 28, 1774, edition of the âPennsylvania Journal and the Weekly ...
LOS ANGELES — It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out of thin air, put a little contraption on the roof of his office and began cranking out free bottles of H2O for anyone who wanted one. Soon he and ...
ARRIAGA, Mexico (AP) — More than a hundred Mexican federal officers carrying plastic shields abandoned a blockade they had formed on a bridge Saturday, allowing a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants to advance toward the United States. The officers ended the standoff after ...
The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Step lightly between two facing mirrors at a first-of-its-kind museum honoring and celebrating the experiences of military veterans, and it takes your breath away. Behind and in front of you, as far as the eye can see, are folded flags. You are standing ...
District of Columbia Trump faces complaints Iran sanctions too weak WASHINGTON — A battle is brewing between the Trump administration and some of the president’s biggest supporters in Congress who are concerned that sanctions to be re-imposed on Iran early next month won’t be tough ...
United Arab Emirates Saudi diplomat: Outcry over writer ‘hysterical’ DUBAI — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat said Saturday that the global outcry and media focus on the killing of a Saudi journalist earlier this month has become “hysterical” as he urged the public to wait for the ...
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — In the hours before his arrest, as federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: DJ’ing in a nightclub where he’d found work in the last two months. As he entertained patrons at the Ultra ...
LONDON (AP) — An American tourist from Louisiana helped stop a hammer-wielding thief who unsuccessfully tried to steal the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral, working in tandem with a church employee to prevent the man from escaping. Matthew Delcambre, of New Iberia, Louisiana, ...
HARRISBURG — A panel that considers allegations of misconduct against Pennsylvania lawyers is clearing Penn State’s former general counsel for how she represented university officials during the child sexual abuse investigation of Jerry Sandusky. A disciplinary board hearing committee ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Law-enforcement agencies across the United States deployed extra officers at synagogues and Jewish centers on Saturday in response to a shooting that claimed 11 lives at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Police in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities said that while they ...