The Daily Populous

Google Fiber started off with a simple enough premise: providing lightning-fast internet and TV service to customers at reasonable prices.

Last week, however, it was revealed that the TV portion of Google Fiber is being eliminated from future rollouts of the service.

In a blog post, Google explained that in its newest markets, Louisville and San Antonio, it will not be providing optional TV service. »

He told her he needed help with a family situation, Richard Wyffels, the Alexandria police chief, said at a news conference.

Mr. Barker was a family acquaintance, Chief Wyffels said, so Ms. Block agreed to accompany him in his car.

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More than a thousand prisoners determined to be Islamic State fighters passed through that room last week after they fled their crumbling Iraqi stronghold of Hawija.

The fight for Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, took nine months, and by comparison, relatively few Islamic State fighters surrendered.

According to Kurdish officials, they put up no fight at all, other than planting bombs and booby traps. »

“In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company — Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar — have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately,” the statement reads.

Weinstein did not agree to leave the company, and there is no financial settlement in place, according to an insider.

Members of the creative community and talent agencies told Weinstein executives that they would continue to work with the company provided Harvey Weinstein was ousted, according to an insider. »