Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against his former attorney, Michael Cohen, for more than $500 million, claiming Cohen breached his “fiduciary duty” and attorney-client privileges in order to be “unjustly enriched.” The suit, filed in federal court in Florida, comes after the former president pleaded not guilty …
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Microsoft and a group of cybersecurity firms received help from the courts with the massive takedown Thursday of a notorious hacking tool that had been co-opted by cybercriminals to target hospitals and healthcare systems. Joining forces with cybersecurity firm Fortra and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC), the …
Read More »The Arizona governor’s press secretary, Josselyn Berry, has resigned after tweeting a meme about threatening to shoot “transphobes.” According to The Associated Press, Berry tweeted an image Monday from the 1980 movie “Gloria” that depicted a woman with two guns drawn, and it bore a caption that read, “Us when we …
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Children and teenagers in Utah are to lose access to social media apps such as TikTok if they don’t have parental consent and would face other restrictions under a first-in-the-nation law designed to shield young people from the addictive apps. The two bills Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed into law …
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The White House has unveiled a national cybersecurity strategy calling for comprehensive regulation of the nation’s vital services, acknowledging in a 38-page blueprint that reliance on voluntary cybersecurity measures has stopped short of preventing billions in economic losses following a spike in ransomware attacks, as well as “inadequate and inconsistent …
Read More »Washington — Police announced that a suspect has been arrested in connection with an assault Thursday morning on Rep. Angie Craig, a Democrat from Minnesota, in the elevator of her Washington, D.C., apartment building. Craig suffered bruising in the attack, her office said. The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department reported Thursday night …
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The National Prayer Breakfast, one of the most visible and long-standing events that brings religion and politics together in Washington, is splitting from the private religious group that had overseen it for decades, due to concerns the gathering had become too divisive. The organizer and host for this year’s breakfast, …
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that any “solution” to the debt ceiling will have to come from both fellow Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden. McConnell made that comment to reporters Tuesday as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns the federal government has hit the debt …
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Sacramento — About 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their knowledge, and now the state is trying to find them so it can pay them at least $15,000 each in reparations. But after a year of searching, the …
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The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says Republicans will issue subpoenas to the intelligence community to gather information about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. GOP Rep. Mike Turner told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge that Republicans plan to examine the intelligence behind the virus’ origins, …
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