Author: Matt Griffith

The internet business has all the trappings of false advertisement. Quick riches and easy bucks. But what is not clear is the hijacking of your intellectual property by refusal to release the accounts is unheard. Offender par excellence Godaddy.com with its new “customer care” department. Despite flashy customer-oriented software, with all the bells and whistles, since the company going public and killing the racing queens from the program, the customer service culture has deteriorated. Hours of long waiting, bot generated responses and rude staffing cutting off the inquiries is the norm. The Indian located call center is described as the…

Fossil-fuel billionaire Kelcy Warren is about to land a knockout punch on Greenpeace. The pipeline magnate’s company, Energy Transfer, is behind a lawsuit that Greenpeace says could bankrupt the environmental group’s U.S. affiliate. A courtroom victory, which some Greenpeace officials fear is likely, would be a coda in the nearly decadelong battle between the two sides over one of Warren’s signature projects: the Dakota Access Pipeline. In 2016, Greenpeace, Native American tribal groups and thousands of other activists camped in a remote corner of North Dakota to block the project. The monthslong protests impeded the oil pipeline’s completion and became…

The White House appears to be walking back President Joe Biden’s harshest public rebuke so far of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and what he described as Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza. Israel’s 10-week-old military campaign has killed more than 18,000 people, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. “The president was reflecting a concern that we have had for some time, and will continue to have as this military operation proceeds, about the need for reducing civilian harm and being as precise and careful and deliberate as possible,” John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, told VOA…

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has said she does not care about status or identity when it comes to prosecuting suspected criminals. “Lady Justice is actually blind,” the Atlanta-area prosecutor told MSNBC last year, dismissing the perception that certain high-ranking officials are “immune” to accountability. “If you come into my community and you commit a crime, you deserve to be held responsible.” Now, Willis has brought a fourth set of criminal charges against former United States President Donald Trump over accusations that he tried to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. The sprawling 98-page indictment issued late on Monday listed 19 defendants…

Canada is bracing for what forecasters say may be the country’s worst wildfire season on record. It has already seen 2,214 fires this year, which have burned an area roughly totalling the size of Belgium. Projections suggest the risk of wildfires will only increase in June and remain unusually high with little respite throughout the summer. The federal natural resources minister called this season’s projections “sobering”. “It shows us that this year’s already devastating season could well get worse,” Jonathan Wilkinson said at a news conference on Monday. In a Monday briefing, officials said the number of wildfires Canada has…

As gun violence increases and shootings seem to make headlines every few days, the fear of getting caught up in one is changing the lives of millions of Americans. A shopping mall. A classroom. A teenager’s house party. All have suffered the scourge of a US mass shooting in recent weeks. To many Americans, it feels like it could happen anywhere. As the US observes National Gun Violence Awareness Day on Friday, how is this issue affecting the way people go about their lives? Tough conversations Around 60% of adults say they have talked to their kids or other relatives…

Iowa surgeons had to amputate a woman’s leg to free her from the rubble of a building that partially collapsed in the town of Davenport on Sunday. “In the blink of a second,” Quanishia White-Berry was trapped beneath the concrete and waited for hours before rescuers reached her, her wife said. Two people are believed to still be trapped in a part of the building “not sustainable for life”, Mayor Mike Matson said on Thursday. A third resident is unaccounted for. Additionally, a city employee who mistakenly marked a 25 May inspection of construction on the building as “passed” when…

BOSTON (AP) — Democratic House Speaker Ronald Mariano said Friday that the House won’t meet with state Auditor Diana DiZoglio about an audit DiZoglio has launched into the Legislature. DiZoglio, a Democrat who served as both a state representative and senator, described the audit as the first such review in a century of the Legislature that she hopes will “increase transparency, accountability and equity in an area of state government that has been completely ignored.” Bruins clinch Atlantic Division with 2-1 win over Tampa Bay Mariano said in a letter to DiZoglio Friday that the House’s financial accounts are already public. Any “performance…