News Stories relating to "blackout"

Al-Qaeda has claimed they caused the recent blackout in the Northeast. But Elizabeth Baron who is a psychic, says, "No one will believe this but this is the work of a 15-year-old boy with the mind of a genius with the computer."

She claims the boy lives in Canada and says, "He has studied so much about electricity and how it works across...

"We're a superpower with a third world grid," said former energy secretary Bill Richardson in an interview on CNN. Third world countries can't figure out why Thursday's power blackout spread so wide and lasted so long. They have blackouts all the time and recover much more quickly. As the world heats up, we're likely to have more blackouts too...

The great blackout of 2003 should not have been possible, and power officials did not believe it could happen before it did. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio One stated that the problem began with a disruption at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, while President Bush speculated that the cause might have been a lightning strike at a power...