Chinese hackers stole emails from US State Dept in Microsoft breach, Senate staffer says (www.reuters.com)
Chinese hackers who breached Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) email platform this year managed to steal tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters on Wednesday....
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This isn't theft of need. A more insidious type of crime is pushing some stores to close (www.cnn.com)
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Evergrande halts share trading as woes mount for China’ property giant (www.theguardian.com)
Embattled Chinese property giant Evergrande has suspended share trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange only a month after it resumed trading after a 17-month suspension....
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'Be careful with feeding wildlife': Jupiter man attacked by rabid otter (www.wpbf.com)
Jupiter, Florida that is. He wasn’t an alien.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law to protect doctors who mail abortion pills to other states (apnews.com)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Wednesday that aims to stop other states from prosecuting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in places where the procedure is banned....
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X makes cuts to disinformation and election integrity team (www.nbcnews.com)
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed the number of people on its disinformation and election integrity team just weeks after it said it was hiring for new positions to help it guard against foreign interference....
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Police arrest repeat offender suspected in murder of Baltimore tech CEO (www.nbcnews.com)
Authorities have arrested the man suspected of killing of Baltimore tech entrepreneur Pava LaPere, a U.S. Marshal confirmed, as police announced plans to reveal details of the capture following a major manhunt....
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New Orleans officials seek to build a freshwater pipeline as saltwater wedge inches closer (www.cnn.com)
Water barges and salt-filtering reverse osmosis units will not be enough to prevent saltwater from contaminating New Orleans’ largest water facility, officials said at city council meeting on Wednesday. Instead, a pipeline will be needed to deliver freshwater from upstream — not just for New Orleans, but likely for...
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New report connects Trump organization with the largest tax fraud case in New York City history (www.dailykos.com)
The Trump Organization, not unlike the Trump administration, is rife with stories of corruption and grift, incompetence due to the cutting of corners, and general crapulence. ProPublica and New York Public Radio station WNYC have published a brand-new joint investigative story about how Trump’s business interests in...
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A group of giant mounds built by Native Americans thousands of years ago just became the US' newest World Heritage Site (www.insider.com)
UNESCO just added 42 new places to its World Heritage Sites....
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U.S. Senate unanimously passes formal dress code after uproar (www.axios.com)
The Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to make business attire a requirement on the Senate floor....
'Power to communities': Chicago considers city-owned grocery store to address 'food deserts' after giants like Walmart and Whole Foods shutter stores (finance.yahoo.com)
The mayor’s office says it would be the first major U.S. city to enact such a plan.
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New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening (phys.org)
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A QAnon 'queen' and the Canada town that wants her gone (www.bbc.com)
Recently, the group moved into Richmound, a village of around 150 people in south-western Saskatchewan, and settled in at a former school....
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Philips Kept Complaints About Dangerous Breathing Machines Secret While Company Profits Soared (www.propublica.org)
Tainted CPAP machines and ventilators went to children, the elderly and at least 700,000 veterans despite internal warnings. Company insiders said the devices posed an “unacceptable” risk.
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Auto workers union to announce plans on Friday to expand strike in contract dispute with companies (apnews.com)
The United Auto Workers union says it will announce on Friday how it plans to expand its strike against Detroit’s three automakers....
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Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday celebration moved to Saturday to avoid federal shutdown threat (apnews.com)
The Jimmy Carter Library & Museum is moving up festivities for the former president’s 99th birthday because of the threat of a partial federal government shutdown....
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The Biden administration is expected to keep cap on refugees admitted to the US at 125,000 (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is expected to keep the cap on refugees admitted to the country at 125,000 for the next fiscal year, which begins Sunday....
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New rule will cut federal money to college programs that leave grads with high debt, low pay (apnews.com)
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US secures the release of the soldier who crossed into North Korea 2 months ago (apnews.com)
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Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton suspended by GB News over Ava Evans insults (www.bbc.com)
Dan Wootton and Laurence Fox have been suspended over insults against Ava Evans on Wootton's show.
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The Sheriff, His Girlfriend and His Illegal Subpoenas (www.nytimes.com)
In 2014, Bryan Bailey, the sheriff of Rankin County, Miss., made what seemed like a series of routine requests of the local district attorney’s office....
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Houston approves $5M to relocate residents living near polluted Union Pacific rail yard (apnews.com)
Residents and local officials have long blamed the high number of cancer cases on contamination from a rail yard originally owned by Southern Pacific and later bought by Union Pacific near two historically Black neighborhoods, Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens. The wood preservative creosote, which has been associated with an...
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Judge Chutkan denies Trump’s request to recuse herself in federal election subversion case (apnews.com)
Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama and was randomly assigned to Trump’s case, said in her written decision that she sees no reason to step aside. The case, scheduled for trial in March, accuses the Republican of illegally scheming to overturn his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden....
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