By Patrick JacksonBBC News
Getty ImagesOn Tuesday 11 September 2001 suicide attackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people.
The attack remains one of the most traumatic events of the century, not only for Americans but also for the world.
What were the targets?Four planes flying over the eastern US were seized simultaneously by small teams of hijackers.
They were then used as giant, guided missiles to crash into landmark buildings in New York and Washington. Read More...
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter’s radically reduced anti-propaganda team grappled on Sunday with a flood of nuisance content in China that researchers said was aimed at reducing the flow of news about stunning widespread protests against coronavirus restrictions.
Numerous Chinese-language accounts, some dormant for months or years, came to life early Sunday and started spamming the service with links to escort services and other adult offerings alongside city names.
The result: For hours, anyone searching for posts from those cities and using the Chinese names for the locations would see pages and pages of useless tweets instead of information about the daring protests as they escalated to include calls for Communist Party leaders to resign. Read More...
Michael F. Neidorff was an American business entrepreneur who took charge of Centene Corp. from 1996 until March 2022.
For more than two decades, Michael was Centene Corporation’s visionary CEO.
He crafted a unique American corporate success story, and his dedication to providing inexpensive, high-quality health care to the world’s most vulnerable people changed lives all across the world.
Neidorff was born in 1943 and grew up in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
He doubles as an alumni of the Trinity University and St. Read More...
