Carl Natale

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December 28, 2018

Con Edison probes electric flash that turned NYC skyline blue

NEW YORK (AP) — Electric utility Con Edison was working Friday to figure out what caused a high-voltage equipment failure that unleashed an otherworldly flash of bright blue light in the night sky over New York City. The event Thursday caused power outages, briefly grounded flights at LaGuardia airport and filled social media feeds with […]
Published
December 27, 2018

Why were so many people mad about the Instagram update on Thursday?

Instagram introduced an update Thursday morning that forced users to tap or swipe horizontally to view their feeds. But it was apparently a false alarm! After swift backlash, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, quickly tweeted a series of apologies. “Sorry about that, this was supposed to be a very small test but we went […]
Published
December 27, 2018

Wintry mess expected to get in the way of Friday’s morning commute

Maine is looking at a messy upcoming day on the roads, as snow, sleet and freezing rain are all in the forecast in the Pine Tree State. Forecasts call for snow to start early Friday and later turn over to sleet and around midday. Travel conditions are expected to be slippery. William Watson from the […]
Published
December 27, 2018

Donald Trump says US forces will stay in Iraq, possibly deploy to Syria if needed again

President Trump said he has no plans to withdraw American forces from Iraq, a week after announcing a surprise pullout of troops from Syria and ordering the Pentagon to bring home roughly half of the American forces deployed to Afghanistan. The decision allows the United States to maintain a presence in the heart of the […]
Published
December 26, 2018

Donald Trump makes unannounced visits to U.S. troops in Iraq

AL-ASAD AIRBASE, Iraq (AP) — President Donald Trump made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Wednesday, leaving behind a partially shuttered U.S. government to greet American troops helping hold off extremists in a country where thousands of Americans died during the recent war. It comes a week after Trump stunned his national security advisers by […]
Published
December 24, 2018

Why is Donald Trump tweeting about Brett McGurk?

WASHINGTON – In a May 2017 Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was flanked by perhaps the two most important U.S. officials coordinating the fight against the Islamic State. One was Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The other one was Brett McGurk, a State Department official whom Mattis introduced as “President Trump’s […]
Published
December 24, 2018

Donald Trump makes Fed Chairman Jerome Powell the scapegoat for market downturn

Nobody was happier to take credit for surging stocks than President Donald Trump, who touted and tweeted each leg up. Now the bull is on life support and the search for its potential killer is on. And while many on Wall Street share the president’s frustration with the man atop his markets enemies list, Federal […]
Published
December 24, 2018

White House and Congress prepared to ring in the New Year with the shutdown

As the partial U.S. government shutdown enters a third day, lawmakers have left Washington for the Christmas holiday with no sign of urgency to resolve the fight over President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall money. Unlike shutdowns of the past, Congress and the White House aren’t racing to reopen the government. Offices of congressional […]
Published
December 23, 2018

Quiz: How much do you know about Maine and the holidays?

It’s almost Christmas! Let’s get a little fun! Let’s get a little why-I-never-knew! Let’s get a little grisly! I mean, just a little. It’s the third annual Maine & The Holidays Quiz, where you learn an assortment of seasonal fun facts and trivia about your favorite state to delight your friends and relations for days […]
Published
December 23, 2018

Rumford business owner touts ‘Taking out the Trash’

RUMFORD — A couple of years ago, Roger White drove by a drug bust in town and was surprised by what he saw. “People on the streets were actually thanking the cops, applauding when they took the guys out of the house. For a few hours afterward, that’s all you saw on Facebook: people thanking […]

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