United States and Belize Sign Open Skies Air Transport Agreement
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/10/286672.htm
United States and Belize Sign Open Skies Air Transport Agreement
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/10/286672.htm
Former U.S. Senate Employee Pleads Guilty to False Statements Charge
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-senate-employee-pleads-guilty-false-statements-charge
YouTube and other Google services are down
Google’s services are ubiquitous enough that it’s pretty noteworthy when they go down. Tonight, it seems multiple services are suffering an outage, including YouTube, and a quick search on Twitter reveals that it’s a fairly widespread problem.
Update: After an agonizing two hours, YouTube servers and Play Store transactions are simultaneously beginning to recover. The two issues seem likely to be related. Hopefully, Google will offer an explanation for the outage soon.
According to downtime tracker DownDetector, most people who are seeing the YouTube outage are in eastern and western United States and the UK. The site is seeing a very notable spike in reports of the web’s most popular video hosting site being down.
Readers as far spread as Canada, India, Australia and Brazil are also reporting being affected.
There have been more than 2,000 reports of the site being down on DownDetector in the last hour, compared to an average of less than 10 per hour. And as shown below, many users are seeing the usual “500 Internal Server Error” message that often appears when there’s something wrong with YouTube.
“A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation,” the site says.
Beyond this, it seems the Google Play Store is also suffering an issue when attempting to make a transaction. It’s not yet known whether the issue is with the Play Store or the Google Pay service.
Other services may also be affected, and we’re watching for related reports.
https://9to5google.com/2018/10/16/youtube-and-play-store-down/
Resignations in the news today:
Schoenecker to resign from ARG
http://www.bradfordera.com/news/schoenecker-to-resign-from-arg/article_6ad5a73e-d0d3-11e8-b5e2-73236a1e0969.html
Blow to Congress in Goa as two MLAs quit, cross over to BJP
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/goa/goa-congress-bjp-dayanand-sopte-subhash-shirodkar-5404422/
Cape Girardeau Asst. Police Chief retiring
https://www.kfvs12.com/2018/10/16/cape-girardeau-asst-police-chief-retiring/
Staley retiring as CEO of Flagship Enterprise Center
http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/local_news/staley-retiring-as-ceo-of-flagship-enterprise-center/article_d797e69a-08bd-5197-b0eb-1fe1c496bbe0.html
After Three Decades Harvey Holiday Retiring
https://radioink.com/2018/10/16/after-three-decades-harvey-holiday-retiring/
Coronado High teacher resigns, indicted for sexual relationship with student
https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/coronado-high-teacher-resigns-indicted-for-sexual-relationship-with-student/1528291960
Anderson city assistant attorney resigns after arrest
https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/crime/anderson-city-assistant-attorney-resigns-after-arrest
UA professor charged with child pornography possession leaves Phoenix medical school
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2018/10/16/keping-xie-university-arizona-professor-charged-child-pornography-possession-leaves/1665427002/
NT officials fill posts after both assistant Emergency Management Office directors resign
http://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/nt-officials-fill-posts-after-both-assistant-emergency-management-office/article_b30909e9-d4ca-5f19-953d-04f0698f3798.html
Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott resigns due to 'inappropriate comments'
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Lt-Gov-Byron-Mallott-resigns-due-to–497738791.html
Ohio mayor to resign over racist remarks
https://www.wsls.com/news/national/ohio-mayor-to-resign-over-racist-remarks
Nebraska women's gymnastics head coach Dan Kendig retiring
http://www.dailynebraskan.com/sports/nebraska-women-s-gymnastics-head-coach-dan-kendig-retiring/article_0bf920f6-d155-11e8-ad91-a7bea827863f.html
Silsbee superintendent to resign
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Silsbee-superintendent-to-resign-13312113.php
Edgewood Trustee to Resign from Board Less than 4 Months After His Addition
https://therivardreport.com/edgewood-trustee-to-resign-from-board-less-than-4-months-after-his-addition/
EU-U.S. Cyber Dialogue Joint Elements Statement
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/10/286665.htm
Supreme Court Poised To Overturn Ninth Circuit Ruling Granting Bond Hearings To Criminal Aliens
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wlf/2018/10/15/supreme-court-poised-to-overturn-ninth-circuit-ruling-granting-bond-hearings-to-criminal-aliens/#639fc5ef5766
Pompeo To Travel to Ankara
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/10/286689.htm
Ryan Zinke Has Fired the DOI Inspector General
https://www.outsideonline.com/2355936/zinke-fires-inspector-general