NEW YORK (AP) – Your phone is getting better and better at protecting your privacy. But Uncle Sam isn’t totally comfortable with that, because it’s also complicating the work of tracking criminals and potential national-security threats. For decades, tech companies have steadily expanded the use of encryption – a data-scrambling …

WASHINGTON (AP) – One of the key technologies that could help wean the globe off fossil fuel is probably at your fingertips or in your pocket right now: the battery. If batteries can get better, cheaper and store more power safely, then electric cars and solar- or wind- powered homes …

Two men have been charged by a military court in Thailand in connection with the bombing of a shrine in the capital Bangkok. Twenty people were killed in the attack on the Erawan Shrine in August. Authorities say Bilal Mohammed, also known as Adem Karadag, and Yusuf Mieraili have both …

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey shot down a Russian warplane Tuesday, claiming it had violated Turkish airspace and ignored repeated warnings. Russia denied that the plane crossed the Syrian border into Turkish skies. “We are looking into the circumstances of the crash of the Russian jet,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said. …

ਮੈਂ ਸ਼ਾਪਿੰਗ ਮਾਲ’ਚ ਗਿਆ ਤਾਂ ਅੱਗੇ ਢਿਲੋਂ ਗਿੱਲ ਤੇ ਪੰਜ ਸੱਤ ਜਾਣੇ ਹੋਰ, ਫੁਡ ਕੋਰਟ’ਚ ਬੈਠੇ ਕਾਫੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਚੁਸਕੀਆਂ ਲੈਂਦੇ, ਪਾਲੇਟਿਕਸ ਦੀਆਂ ਗੱਲਾਂ’ਚ ਉਲਝੇ ਹੋਏ ਮੈਂਨੂੰ ਦੇਖ ਕੇ ਕਹਿਣ ਲੱਗੇ ਕਿ ਲਉ ਝੱਜ਼ ਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੁਣ ਗੱਲ ਬਣ ਗਈ। ਮੈਂ ਕਿਹਾ ਅਜਿਹੀ ਕਿਹੜੀ ਗੱਲ ਆ ਜਿਹੜੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਆਉਣ ਨਾਲ ਬਣ …

ਸਤਵਿੰਦਰ ਕੌਰ ਸੱਤੀ-(ਕੈਲਗਰੀ)- ਕਨੇਡਾ satwinder_7@hotmail.com ਸੁੱਖੀ ਦੀ ਨੂੰਹੁ ਬੌਬ ਦੀ ਵੱਹੁਟੀ, ਬੌਬ ਨਾਲ ਬਹੁਤ ਘੁੱਲੀ-ਮਿਲੀ ਰਹਿੰਦੀ ਸੀ। ਹਰ ਰੋਜ਼ ਦਾ ਇਹੀ ਕੰਮ ਸੀ। ਬੌਬ ਜਦੋਂ ਦਫ਼ਤਰ ਜਾਂਣ ਲਈ ਤਿਆਰ ਹੋਣ ਲੱਗਦਾ। ਉਸ ਦੇ ਦੁਆਲੇ ਹੀ ਘੁੰਮਦੀ ਰਹਿੰਦੀ ਸੀ। ਕਦੇ ਹੱਸਦੀ ਸੀ। ਕਦੇ ਗੁੱਸੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਊਚੀ ਬੋਲਦੀ ਸੀ। ਜਦੋਂ ਦੋਂਨੇਂ ਲੜ …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Five people were shot late Monday night near the site of an ongoing protest over the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer, Minneapolis police said. None of the five suffered life-threatening injuries. The shootings occurred late Monday night about a block from the …

TELOLOAPAN, Mexico (AP) – Carlos Sanchez lay in the backseat of a Honda sedan with his head in his wife’s lap, an oxygen tube in his nose, IV in his arm and three bullets in his body. The 36-year-old taco vendor cried out in pain at every bump on the …

JERUSALEM (AP) – Secretary of State John Kerry made his first trip to Israel in more than a year, arriving on Tuesday in the midst of a new rash of deadly attacks that have dampened hopes for peace mediation between the Jewish state and Palestinians during the Obama administration’s final …

PENAS BLANCAS, Costa Rica (AP) – As summer began to bake the central Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus, Elio Alvarez and Lideisy Hernandez sold their tiny apartment and everything in it for $5,000 and joined the largest migration from their homeland in decades. Buying two smartphones for $160 apiece on …