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Month: September 2023

Exclusive: DHS investigating whether floor plans and other security information were exposed in ransomware attack on contractor

By Priscilla Alvarez and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Senior Department of Homeland Security officials are working to determine whether a ransomware attack on government contractor Johnson Controls International has compromised sensitive physical security information such as DHS floor plans, according to internal DHS correspondence reviewed by CNN. Johnson Controls, a major manufacturer of alarm

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Alabama objects to proposed congressional districts designed to boost Black representation

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama attorney general’s office said Thursday that it opposes all three congressional maps proposed by a special master as federal judges begin drawing new districts. The plaintiffs, who won before the U.S. Supreme Court in the redistricting case, wrote that two of the proposed plans

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

El canal de la discordia que mantiene enfrentados a República Dominicana y Haití

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN Español) — República Dominicana y Haití se mantienen enfrentados por la construcción de un canal que, de acuerdo con el gobierno dominicano, representaría un trasvase (transferencia de agua mediante obras hidráulicas) del río Masacre/ Dajabón en territorio haitiano. La obra no es nueva y ha mantenido en discordia a ambas naciones desde

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IRS contractor charged with leaking tax return information of Trump, wealthy people

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about thousands of the country’s wealthiest people. The Justice Department said in a statement Friday that 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C., is accused of stealing tax return

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Trump-era DOJ official and fake electors can’t move Georgia election charges to federal court, judge rules

By Marshall Cohen (CNN) — Trump-era Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark cannot move his Georgia election subversion case from state to federal court, a judge ruled Friday. The ruling from US District Judge Steve Jones is the latest blow to the Georgia defendants who are trying to move their state prosecutions into the federal system,

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Estas sandalias de 6.000 años encontradas en una cueva española son los zapatos más antiguos de Europa

Luis Ernesto Quintana Barney (CNN) — Un nuevo análisis identificó los zapatos más antiguos jamás descubiertos en Europa, según un estudio publicado esta semana en la revista Science Advances. Las 22 sandalias tejidas datan de hace 6.000 años, según un análisis de radiocarbono encontrado en el estudio dirigido por investigadores de la Universidad Autónoma de

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Who killed Tupac Shakur? What we know about the rapper’s murder investigation, almost 30 years later

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — For almost three decades, the answer to “Who murdered Tupac Shakur?” has remained a mystery. Now, an arrest has been made in Las Vegas in connection with the legendary rapper’s 1996 killing, Las Vegas authorities announced Friday. Duane Keith Davis, aka “Keffe D,” was arrested Friday morning, Las Vegas

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Senate confirms Mississippi US Attorney, putting him in charge of welfare scandal prosecution

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. The action puts Todd Gee in charge of overseeing the largest public corruption case in state history. President Joe Biden nominated Gee in September 2022. He was confirmed Friday

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