Month: February 2024

AT&T was hit by a widespread outage affecting users across the United States early Thursday and gave no indication of when services would be restored.The outage, which affected people in cities including Atlanta, Los Angeles and Dallas, was first reported around 3:30 a.m. Eastern time, and cellular service and internet problems were still being widely reported more than five hours later, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks user reports of telecommunication and internet disruptions.AT&T said in a statement on Thursday that some of its customers were experiencing wireless service interruptions. “We are working urgently to restore service to them,” the statement…

Last fall, Tiffanie Simmons, a second-generation autoworker, endured a six-week strike at the Ford Motor factory just west of Detroit where she builds Bronco S.U.V.s. That yielded a pay raise of 25 percent over the next four years, easing the pain of reductions that she and other union workers swallowed more than a decade ago.But as Ms. Simmons, 38, contemplates prospects for the American auto industry in the state that invented it, she worries about a new force: the shift toward electric vehicles. She is dismayed that the transition has been championed by President Biden, whose pro-labor credentials are at…