August 2019

Don’t Use Bootleg or Street Vaping Products, C.D.C. Warns

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday warned people not to use vaping ingredients bought on the street and to stop modifying either nicotine or cannabis e-cigarette device in an effort to curb the vaping-related lung sicknesses that have alarmed health officials in more than two dozen states this summer. Despite the lack […]

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Michael Flynn Seeks a Delay in Sentencing as His Lawyers Try New Approach

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Michael T. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, asked a federal judge on Friday to delay his sentencing in an apparent bid to relitigate the case in which he has twice admitted guilt. The latest move by the defense lawyers could anger the federal judge who will sentence him, Emmet

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Researchers: Websites infected iPhones with spyware

Researchers say cyberspies exploited security vulnerabilities to plant spyware on Apple iPhones when users merely visited a small group of malware-infected websites. Sensitive data accessed included text messages, photos and real-time location. Security experts are calling the just-announced vulnerability, which Apple fixed in February, the worst yet affecting iPhones. Google security researchers say thousands of

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Kansas City Chiefs Player Tackles Fan Who Runs On Field In Green Bay

That’s one way to get in on the action. Some shirtless knucklehead ran onto the field during the Green Bay Packers–Kansas City Chiefs preseason game on Thursday ― and got tackled by a player. (See the videos below.) Chiefs safety Harold Jones-Quartey chased down the interloper and dropped him from behind. Green Bay police officer Craig

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Trial for Men Charged With Plotting Sept. 11 Attacks Is Set for 2021

WASHINGTON — This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. A military judge on Friday set Jan. 11, 2021, as the start of the joint death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four men charged as plotters of the attacks that killed 2,976 people in New York,

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