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Digital surveillance can help bring the coronavirus pandemic under control – but also threatens privacy
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jennifer Daskal, American University
April 11, 2020
Apr 09, 2020 Jennifer Daskal American University (THE CONVERSATION) Israel’s top spy agency has been using secretly collected cellphone data to retrace the movements of those who tested positive for the coronavirus. The Polish government launched the “Home Qu...
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says direct deposits out next week for virus aid
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – HIllsboro Globe Reports
April 8, 2020
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is announced to House Democrats that direct deposits to Americans will begin next week under the coronavirus aid package. In addition, Mnuchin told lawmakers during the conference call that $98 billion has been approved for small businesses to...
Joseph Lowery, civil rights leader and MLK aide, dies at 98
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Hillsboro News Desk
March 28, 2020
ATLANTA (AP) — The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery fought to end segregation, lived to see the election of the country’s first black president and echoed the call for “justice to roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” in America. For more than four decades after the death of...
Trump suspends travel from Europe to US for 30 days
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – HIllsboro Breaking News Desk
March 11, 2020
Mar 11, 2020 8:54PM (GMT 01:54) - 1225 words By LISA MASCARO, ANDREW TAYLOR, JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking drastic action Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced he is cutting off travel from Europe to the U.S. and moving to ease the economic cost of a viral pandemic that is roiling global financial markets and disrupting the daily lives of...
Three American firefighting airplane crew member killed fighting fires in Australia
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Hillsboro News Desk
January 26, 2020
SYDNEY (AP) — Three American firefighting airplane crew members were killed Thursday when the C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the deaths in the state's...
18 years later, America vows to ‘never forget’ 9/11
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – By KAREN MATTHEWS and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
September 11, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — People who were too young on 9/11 to even remember their lost loved ones, and others for whom the grief is still raw, paid tribute with wreath-layings and the solemn roll call of the dead Wednesday as America marked the 18th anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil. "As long as the city will gift us this moment, I will be he...
Latest updates on deadly hurricane Dorian
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – RAMON ESPINOSA, DÁNICA COTO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
September 3, 2019
Sep 03, 2019 7:34AM (GMT 12:34) Eds: Updates with storm's location, other detail. With AP Photos. Watch Lightening Storm from above the hurricane. FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Practically parking itself over the Bahamas for a day and a half, Hurricane Dorian pounded away at th...
Maurice Hill, a Philadelphia gunman with a long criminal history, wounded six police officers that led to a seven hour standoff
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Sam Levy, Editor
August 28, 2019
PHILADELPHIA — On August 15th, 2019, shots rang out at around 5:00 in the afternoon in Tioga-Nicetown, Pennsylvania. The criminal history of a man suspected of barricading himself inside a Philadelphia row home should have prevented him from legally owning the firepower he used Wednesday to wound...
Death toll rises to 23 as tornadoes, severe storms hit South
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports
March 4, 2019
11:00pm CST BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — A tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 22 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that caused catastrophic damage and unleashed other tornadoes around the Southeast. ”We are at 22 right now. Unfortu...
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January 29, 2019
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Government Shutdown
Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Brayden Smith, reporter
January 25, 2019
The United States Federal Government just concluded a 36 day partial shutdown, the longest in U.S. history. It has been reported by Associated Press that 8 billion dollars in revenue was lost during the shutdown and nearly half of that will be unrecoverable. President Trump signed a temporary bill that...
Trump and the disputed border crisis
January 17, 2019
WASHINGTON — In his prime-time speech to the nation, President Donald Trump declared a border crisis. Following his speech, newly empowered Democrats offered a rebuttal to the claims that there is a national crisis along the Mexican-United States border. Excerpts from Presidents Trump's speech Oval...