At day’s end in India, after what’s been called the “world’s biggest blackout” ever, officials were reporting that electric service had been restored to most of the 670 million or so people who lost it on Tuesday. Just before midnight in India (2 p.m. ET), the Power Grid Corp. of India reported that the “power supply [had
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An estimated 370 million people — about 60 million more than live in the U.S. — were without power for at least part of today in northern India because of a massive failure in the country’s power grid. It was “one of the worst blackouts to hit the country in more than a decade,” The
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Another shadowy executive order was released last week from the White House — this one gives the President the power to effectively shut down or seize control of all private communications — and has many worried about its implications, especially with respect to the Internet. Over the last week, the Internet has been buzzing with
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So I was watching Maddow the other night and caught the segment she ran on how the US is putting all these sanctions on Iran over the its nuclear program. And in that she mentioned how the value of Iran money is going through the floor. People are lined up at the banks to exchange
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(Reuters) – Nuclear regulators shot down an ambitious five-week timeline proposed to restart Dominion’s (D.N) two North Anna reactors in Virginia during a public meeting on Thursday to discuss the Aug. 23 earthquake that knocked the station offline. The 1,806-megawatt station has remained shut since it automatically tripped last month after the unusually strong 5.8
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