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‘NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN,’ Trump tweets in warning to Iran’s Rouhani

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President Trump, in a tweet in capital letters late Sunday night, warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that if Iran threatened the United States again, it would face severe consequences. Trump’s message came as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States would step up broadcasts into Iran critical of the country’s theocratic rulers. “To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!” Trump tweeted. Iran’s state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency replied within hours, dismissing Trump’s tweet and describing it as a “passive reaction” to Rouhani’s remarks. Earlier Sunday, Rouhani said the United States should avoid inciting Iranians against the government as the Trump administration is poised to reimpose sanctions suspended under t...
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FRIDAY'S MASSIVE COMCAST OUTAGE SHOWS HOW FRAGILE THE INTERNET IS

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Blame cuts to fiber optic cables for Comcast's outage Friday WIDESPREAD INTERNET OUTAGES  around the United States on Friday afternoon quelled productivity and sent irate customers to Twitter to complain. Comcast and Xfinity suffered the biggest service interruptions across its internet, cable, and landline products. The company, which has more than 29 million business and individual customers, said on Friday that the outages stemmed from fiber optic cables at two internet infrastructure companies that were cut or otherwise disrupted. Like virtually all internet providers, Comcast relies on a combination of its own fiber optic infrastructure and that of other partner companies to seamlessly route data around the world. "We identified two, separate and unrelated fiber cuts to our network backbone providers," Comcast said in a statement to WIRED. "Our engineers worked to address the issue immediately and services are now being restored to business and resid...
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COMCAST RECOVERS FROM OUTAGE OF VIDEO, BROADBAND SERVICES ACROSS PARTS OF U.S.

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Comcast, the nation's largest broadband provider and one of the largest pay-TV providers, had a nationwide outage of some services Friday. The Philadelphia-based company said it was aware Friday afternoon some of its TV, broadband and telephone customers across the U.S. were affected. The apparent cause? A pair of cuts in vital fiber at its network partners. “We identified two, separate and unrelated fiber cuts to our network backbone providers," Comcast said in a statement provided to USA TODAY just before 5 p.m. ET. "Our engineers worked to address the issue immediately and services are now being restored to business and residential internet, video and voice customers. We again apologize to anyone who was impacted.” Initially, Comcast had said a single "fiber cut" had been affecting its customers, as well as other providers. Customers in Philadelphia, Baltimore and elsewhere on the east coast reported outages of internet and video service on Tw...
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