As the heat wave gripped much of the country on Sunday, power outages reported in multiple states left hundreds of thousands of customers in the dark. Crews were working to restore power after heavy storms over two days knocked out power for more than 800,000 Michigan homes and businesses. Two utilities said it could take until Wednesday to restore power for everyone. ...

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – The long-awaited return of the British Open to Northern Ireland ended with Shane Lowry keeping the silver claret jug on the Emerald Isle. Even as the rain stopped, the tears began flowing. Lowry, the 32-year-old Irishman with stout nerves and a soft touch around the greens, endured the worst weather of the week and the Sunday ...

Police in British Columbia, Canada, issued an apology Friday after a cat filter was mistakenly applied to a live stream of a news conference about a double murder. When the filter activated, a sergeant with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police suddenly appeared on computer screens with cat ears on her head and whiskers on her face as she spoke to ...

A white man confronted a black Georgia state lawmaker in front of reporters Saturday and denied her accusation that he told her to “go back where you came from” during an argument in a supermarket checkout lane a day earlier. Eric Sparkes that he cursed at state Rep. Erica Thomas for taking too many items into an express checkout lane but denied making the racially ...

A British Open golfer who hit the mother of his playing partner’s caddie with an errant shot refused to apologize Saturday for not yelling “Fore.” Any duffer who has picked up a golf club knows that it’s the courteous thing to do to yell fore when a shot goes astray, but apparently not Kyle Stanley, who says he was “caught off ...

Make Ringtones Q: Is it possible to make your own ringtone? I want to know it’s my phone ringing and not a co-worker’s phone. Annoying! A: The short answer is yes, you can make a custom ringtone. This makes perfect sense, since the ringtone file is so small, and sound manipulation is straightforward in a digital setting. But most of ...

Congressional lawmakers are siding with Puerto Ricans in calling for the island’s besieged governor to resign amid days of demonstrations and confrontations between protesters and police. Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted her support for the people’s demand that Gov. Ricardo Rosselló step down. “The people of Puerto Rico have spoken loudly and clearly for the world to hear. We must stand with ...

Instagram is boosting its content moderation appeals process and adding a new alert that will warn users who violate rules when their account is close to being deleted. The Facebook-owned app, which has been hit by critics over not doing enough to stem the tide of bullying and misinformation, will display a history of the posts, comments and stories that ...