Utility Says Power Restored In New York City After Outage Hits 73.000 Customers
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Updated at 12:38 a.m. ET Sunday

New York officials and Con Edison say power has been fully restored after an outage knocked out lights on Times Square’s giant monitors, shut down subways, and stranded people in elevators along Manhattan’s West Side on Saturday evening, impacting tens of thousands in the city.

Some 73,000 customers over six networks on Con Edison’s local grid lost power just before 7 p.m. local time, the energy provider said.

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Disney’s Live-Action Lion King (2019) Review: Repeating History
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The new live-action version of The Lion King arrives in theaters on July 18. It’s another remake of an animated classic, but does it do the original justice or bring anything new and worthwhile to the table? Read on for our full review.

With the new Lion King movie, Disney adds another film to the ever-growing list of animated classics given new life with a live-action remake. That is, depending who you ask–some view the new versions of movies like Dumbo,

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4.6 earthquake shakes Seattle region no damage reported
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David Capocci woke up at the guest house he runs near Mount Pilchuck just before 3 a.m. on Friday. His two dogs, Titus and Kobe, were barking like crazy, so his husband groggily got up to let them out.

Outside, their 15 alpacas were calm as could be.

“Meanwhile, I’m bouncing out of bed going, ‘That was an earthquake, that was an earthquake,’ ” Capocci said. “The herd of alpacas didn’t even blink an eye.”

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Seattle and the Puget Sound region at 2:51 a.m.

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The director of Crawl answers our most serious Florida question
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Crawl, the upcoming disaster horror movie from director Alexandre Aja, takes place in the land of hurricanes, chaotic police reports, and alligators: my home state of Florida.

Of all the areas of the United States where the American alligator roams — an impressive habitat range that includes Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, South and North Carolina, and Georgia — Aja, who directed 2010’s creature-feature Piranhas 3D and dark fantasy Horns, always intended to set the animal-attack thriller in Florida,

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Twitter Suffers Widespread Hour-Long Outage on Mobile Apps Web
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UPDATED: Twitter users worldwide were unable to access the social-networking site for about an hour Thursday, with an outage that affected both mobile and web platforms.

On the web, users saw an error message that said, “Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing —we’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.” An error message in the Twitter app said, “Tweets aren’t loading right now.”

According to website DownDetector.com,

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Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz says she was 15 when ‘he forcibly raped me’
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A new accuser says she was raped at age 15 by Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy, jet-setting financier now awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Jennifer Araoz, in an explosive interview with NBC News, says she was a 14-year-old student in 2001 when a young woman approached her outside her Manhattan high school and later lured her to Epstein’s nearby mansion.

That began a series of meetings that abruptly ended after Epstein sexually assaulted her during one of their encounters,

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Flooding hits New Orleans as possible hurricane looms
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A storm swamped New Orleans streets and paralyzed traffic Wednesday as concerns grew that even worse weather was on the way: a possible hurricane that could strike the Gulf Coast and raise the Mississippi River to the brim of the city’s protective levees. The storm was associated with a broad area of disturbed weather in the Gulf that forecasters said was on track to strengthen into a hurricane by the weekend.

The system was expected to become a tropical depression by Thursday morning,

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NFL lineman Malik McDowell fights policeman after getting tased
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On the field, Malik McDowell rose through the ranks fighting through blocks. Off the field, he apparently fights through Tasers.

The 6-foot-6, 300-pound defensive lineman was pulled over in Lathrup Village, Michigan, in February after a police officer noticed McDowell’s Jeep speeding and spinning out on the road, and it culminated in a fight during which McDowell was tased, only to rip out the darts and attack the officer.

After pulling McDowell over,

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India v New Zealand semi-final to resume on Wednesday after rain delay
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Let us take the positives. How wise of the ICC to schedule a reserve day for the semi-finals. At 2pm, with 3.5 overs of the New Zealand innings left, it began to rain at Old Trafford and it continued for four hours, whereupon the umpires had no alternative but to bring the players back on Wednesday morning to complete the match.

India v New Zealand: Cricket World Cup semi-final to resume on Wednesday – as it happened
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This outcome may be inconvenient for the commercial men but it is the fairest for the players and the integrity of the tournament.

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Deutsche Bank Cuts Leave Thousands Chasing Limited Openings
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Deutsche Bank AG’s massive reorganization will leave thousands of finance employees out of work. And with firms throughout the industry running lean, they won’t all find jobs easily.

The German lender’s sweeping turnaround plan, including an exit from the equities sales and trading business, will slash Deutsche Bank’s workforce by about 18,000 employees globally. Workers from Sydney to London to New York received the details of their exit packages Monday — and were left pondering their next move.

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