Search planes flew out of Australia on today to scour rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth for objects that may be from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite looked out the window of a train at the ocean and the bros surfing and the fish taco stands whizzing by.
“I’m antsy,” she said, shifting in her seat. She checked her cellphone, which she had largely been ignoring all day.

A rare and more serious ITS outage was detected Wednesday night when storage space in Baylor’s data center was experiencing technical issues.
Bob Hartland, associate vice-president for IT Infrastructure, said the reason this incident was more complicated than usual outages is because it impacted several on-campus systems, including Blackboard, the Baylor identification system, Astra scheduling system and Baylor Web pages. Despite the severity of the outage, all campus applications are back up and running with all data safe and intact.

Bipartisan Senate bargainers ended a long-running election-season standoff and struck a compromise renewing expired jobless benefits for five months for more than 2 million Americans who have been out of work the longest, the lawmakers said Thursday.

Nearly 20 ROTC cadets attended the Student Senate meeting Thursday night and witnessed the passing of a bill that could allow them to register earlier for classes.