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Delta Air Lines is rolling out free Wi-Fi to most of its planes beginning February 1. “It’s going to be free, it’s going to be fast and its going to be available for everyone,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He added that the airline invested more than $1 billion in Wi-Fi technology over the past few years. Passengers will need to be a member of its free SkyMiles loyalty program to access the on-board internet. Customers who aren’t members will have to pay a flat fee of $10. More than 500 of…

A 2-year-old boy was killed after a powerful storm knocked a large tree onto his California home, authorities said.The child, who has not been identified, was sitting on a living room couch Wednesday evening when the tree crashed through the roof of the mobile home in Occidental, “pinning or landing” on top of him, a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said. The boy’s father and a neighbor were able to free the child. Fire personnel performed CPR but the boy was pronounced dead from his injuries just before 6 p.m. The sheriff’s office spokesperson said the boy’s father and mother…

Russell Causley made history as the first UK prisoner to face a public parole hearing – he was convicted of killing his 40-year-old wife Carole Packman after she went missing in 1985 A convicted killer who tried to get away with murder by faking his own death is set to be released from prison, the Parole Board have said. Russell Causley was handed a life sentence for the murder of his wife, Carole Packman, who went missing in Bournemouth in 1985 — just a year after Causley moved his lover into their family home. The 79-year-old served over 23 years…

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New York CNN  —  Many of us swipe on our favorite lipstick, mascara or blush in an easy breezy manner, without much physical effort. But there are millions of people for whom applying makeup poses a much bigger challenge. French cosmetics giant L’Oreal unveiled a new handheld makeup applicator called HAPTA at this year’s the Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) in Las Vegas, that aims to assist people with limited mobility or tremors to apply makeup independently. The device was developed in partnership with Verily, a life sciences research company within Alphabet, which is also the corporate parent of Google.…

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The passenger cabin on a Delta Boeing 737-900ER is shown while landing in Salt Lake City, Utah.Mike Blake | ReutersDelta Air Lines will offer travelers Wi-Fi for free starting Feb. 1, CEO Ed Bastian said Thursday.Most U.S. flights will introduce the service next month, but it will become available on more each week, Bastian said during a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.Delta’s plan to make Wi-Fi free, after years of studying the possibility, comes as airlines compete for customers in the travel rebound following the pandemic slump nearly three years ago.”It’s free. There’s no fine print,”…

Lionel Messi is two wins away from the elusive World Cup trophy. The Argentinian maestro has won trophies ranging from the Champions League to La Liga and Copa America. But, at 35, this is most likely his final World Cup and the last opportunity to win the most coveted trophy in football. Is the pressure to win the elusive trophy getting to the usually mild-mannered forward? Messi at the heart of the ‘Battle of Lusail’ The quarterfinal between the Netherlands and Argentina at the Lusail Stadium was a fractious affair rife with refereeing controversies and heated altercations that resulted in 17…

CNN  —  The US Capitol Police is ramping up its security posture and monitoring online chatter about planned protests set to occur on Friday’s two-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Multiple sources tell CNN that USCP will have civil disturbance units on standby for several protests on the Capitol grounds that have permits and at the Supreme Court building. Additionally, USCP is coordinating with law enforcement agencies in surrounding jurisdictions, including police departments from Maryland’s Montgomery County and Fairfax County in Virginia. Washington, DC, police will have civil disturbance units available on Friday as…

Blake Jolicoeur, who was found guilty of fatally beating Saladina Vivancos and leaving her body on a rural road near Spruce Grove, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years. Jolicoeur was convicted of second-degree murder on May 24.Vivancos died Nov. 16, 2019. Her body was found bloodied in the back seat of a car north of Spruce Grove. The car was on a frozen pond near Township Road 532A and Range Road 274. She was 33 years old and had just moved to Edmonton from Kelowna.The judge told Jolicoeur his decision shows…