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Illinois DMV facilities outage has been resolved

DMV facilities up and running after network outage


DMV facilities up and running after network outage

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CHICAGO (CBS) – Illinois driver’s licensing facilities were down for more than an hour on Thursday, due to a “nationwide network outage,” but were back up and running by late morning.

“The national network that connects driver’s licensing facilities experienced an outage this morning that forced the system to temporarily shut down across the US,” a spokesperson for the Illinois Secretary of State’s office said in an email.

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias first announced the outage in a post on X shortly

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MSNBC hosts criticize NBC News for hiring Ronna McDaniel

Maddow said that MSNBC staff “unanimously and instantly expressed outrage” after McDaniel’s hiring was announced Friday but that the cable network’s executives “heard us, understood and adjusted course.”

“We were told in clear terms Ronna McDaniel will not be on our air, Ronna McDaniel will not be on MSNBC,” Maddow said.

Deadline reported earlier Monday that MSNBC President Rashida Jones told staffers that it would be up to individual shows whether to book McDaniel. A person familiar with the cable network leadership’s thinking said Jones made clear that shows always have editorial control, and decisions about booking contributors can change

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The damning verdict of viewers on US cable TV

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Every week the big cable news networks in the US — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC — blast out press releases touting some kind of ratings achievement. These documents are sometimes specific, and often ultra competitive, with each channel trying to claim the title of “most-watched” on cable.

Recently, this obsession with ratings has started to look a bit like musicians playing their violins as the Titanic sinks. Cable television is in long-term decline. Some recent statistics: every day, about

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