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Australia’s Optus appoints Kerry Schott to lead independent review into Triple Zero outage

(Reuters) -Optus, Australia’s no. 2 telecom carrier, said on Wednesday it appointed Kerry Schott to lead an independent review into the September 18 technical failure that disrupted Triple Zero emergency calls and has since been linked to four deaths. ...
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Camp Mystic plans to reopen in Texas next summer, a year after floods killed 27

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Camp Mystic plans to reopen next summer near the site where 27 girls and counselors died in a July flood. The campers and counselors were swept to their deaths when fast-rising floodwaters of the Guadalupe River ...
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US Justice Department official questions retired FBI agent’s role in $1.4B Sandy Hook lawsuit

A senior U.S. Justice Department official sent a letter to a lawyer for relatives of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, asking pointed questions about a retired FBI agent’s involvement in a defamation lawsuit that led ...
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A court in Trinidad blocks extradition of former FIFA vice president Jack Warner to the US

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner won a decade-long court battle on Tuesday against being extradited to the U.S. to face corruption charges in a bribery scandal involving soccer’s world governing body. Trinidad and Tobago ’s ...
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Dollar on defensive despite Powell’s caution on further easing

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -The dollar hovered near its weakest level in close to a week on Wednesday with traders expecting two more U.S. interest rate cuts this year, even after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell struck a cautious ...
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Carney says Canada-US trade talks will move to USMCA review process

By Ryan Patrick Jones TORONTO (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday that trade negotiations with the U.S. were ongoing, and a lot of the remaining issues would move to a forthcoming review of the United States-Mexico-Canada trade ...
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Ex-Tennessee lawmaker sentenced to three years in prison for corruption

By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A former Tennessee legislator was sentenced to three years in prison after he was convicted on an array of corruption charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The department said Glen Casada, 66, a ...
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Black men wrongly linked to 1989 Boston murder get $150,000 settlement

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Black men wrongly accused of the 1989 murder of a pregnant white woman in Boston have received a $150,000 settlement from the city in a high-profile case that had deepened rifts between the local ...
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At UN, the president of Mongolia takes a moment to cheer the world’s horses

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. General Assembly speeches address countless facets of human existence. But on Tuesday, one world leader also made a point of honoring the existence of horses. “Horses have been integral to human livelihoods, culture and ...
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North Carolina legislature passes ‘Iryna’s Law’ after refugee’s stabbing death

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte’s light rail system, the North Carolina legislature gave final approval Tuesday to a criminal justice package that limits bail and seeks to ensure ...
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‘Everything’s frozen for you’: Stopped on the street by NYC police, France’s Macron calls … Trump

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get President Donald Trump on the phone any time he wants. In New York for the U.N. General Assembly, he proved it. Blocked on Monday night by ...
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South Africa’s president says trade is being used as a ‘weapon’

By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday his country is in talks with a U.S. trade representative to reduce tariffs levied by U.S. President Donald Trump after telling world leaders that “trade is ...
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