Update 2: according to the latest, at 11:35 AM PST: "We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue."
And on twitter:
2016 was a rough year for the so-called brick-and-mortar retailers with several mall-based apparel companies, including Aéropostale, Pacific Sun and American Apparel, being forced to seek chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Meanwhile, The Sports Authority didn't even bother with a reorg plan as creditors decided that a liquidation was the best way to maximize value for creditors.
Newly-declassified documents show that a senior CIA agent and Deputy Director of the Directorate of Intelligence worked closely with the owners and journalists of many of the largest media outlets:
The United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities found in 1975 that the CIA submitted stories to the American press:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ED63A_hcd0
Wikipedia adds details:
Via Douglas Murray of The Gatestone Institute,
On the heels of a disappointing revised Q4 GDP print, the US trade balance for January printed a $69.2 billion deficit. This is the second largest deficit since August 2008 (slightly smaller than the March 2015 plunge) as the dollar surge has not helped.
The biggest driver the deficit increase was 4.8% MoM increase in Consumer Goods (notably Auto exports rose 9.3%)
The $69.2bn deficit is considerably worse than the $66.0 billion expectations, and is lower than the lowest analyst expectation.