8-year-old hailed as hero for stopping potential school shooting

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Boy may have stopped potential school shooting Eight-year-old Blake Johnson is still learning addition and subtraction. But on Thursday, he taught everyone at Florida’s Hudson Elementary School a lesson in bravery when he stopped a potential school shooting.  The third grader was in the boy’s bathroom when another student showed […]

Tropical Storm Olga forms in Gulf of Mexico

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A new tropical storm formed Friday in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to merge with a cold front in Louisiana, causing gale-force winds and dumping several inches of rain in the southeast. Tropical Storm Olga had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph as of 8 p.m. ET and […]

Pentagon hands Microsoft $10B ‘war cloud’ deal, snubs Amazon

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The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract , snubbing early front-runner Amazon, whose competitive bid drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals. Bidding for the huge project, known as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, pitted leading tech titans Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and IBM […]

Union votes to ratify deal ending strike at General Motors

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The United Auto Workers union voted to ratify an agreement to end a nationwide strike against General Motors, union leaders announced Friday. “General Motors members have spoken,” UAW Vice President Terry Dittes said in a statement. “We are all so incredibly proud of UAW-GM members who captured the hearts and […]

850,000 Californians could lose power to prevent more fires

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Wildfires force evacuations across California California’s largest utility announced Friday that 850,000 customers could lose power this weekend as a preventative response to hot, dry, windy conditions that the utility fears could spark additional fires. The announcement came after California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in Sonoma […]