November 2019

Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia

SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department charged two former Twitter employees on Wednesday with exploiting their access to the company’s internal systems to spy for Saudi Arabia, raising questions about the security of technology companies as they grapple with scrutiny for spreading disinformation and influencing public opinion. In its complaint, the Justice Department charged Ahmad

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Roger Stone Lied to Protect Trump, Prosecutor Says

Mr. Stone boasted repeatedly in 2016 that he was in touch with WikiLeaks and had inside information about its plans to release emails that would undermine Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. Later, when the special counsel and congressional committees began investigating Russian interference in the election, he said his claims were mere puffery. How much if anything

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Jamie Lee Curtis Discusses Doing Cocaine And Freebasing With Dad Tony Curtis

Jamie Lee Curtis spoke to Variety about her struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, sharing drugs with her dad and how she finally got sober for the magazine’s Recovery Issue.  “I was the wildly controlled drug addict and alcoholic. I never did it when I worked. I never took drugs before 5 p.m. I never,

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Standing tall: Scientists find oldest example of upright ape

The remains of an ancient ape found in a Bavarian clay pit suggest that humans’ ancestors began standing upright millions of years earlier than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday. An international team of researchers says the fossilized partial skeleton of a male ape that lived almost 12 million years ago in the humid forests of

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Colorado voters narrowly approve legalized sports betting

Colorado became the 19th U.S. state to legalize some form of sports betting as election officials tallied Wednesday a surprisingly close vote in which ballots for the measure narrowly surpassed “no” votes. More than 1.3 million Coloradans voted Tuesday on Proposition DD, a bipartisan ballot measure crafted by lawmakers that legalizes sports betting next year

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