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Hugo Herrera / The Verge The US Treasury Department suffered a “major” security incident after a China state-sponsored hacker broke into the third-party remote management software it uses, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In a letter to lawmakers seen by The Verge, the Treasury Department said BeyondTrust, the company behind its remote…
Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly took a page out of President Biden’s book and is offering to write off debts for new recruits enlisting in the country’s military for one year. In November, Putin signed a law allowing anyone who joined the Russian military after Dec. 1, 2024, to have debs of up to 10…
A South Carolina man convicted in the brutal double murder of two bank employees in 2017 is asking for a “compassionate release” days after President Biden spared his life and commuted his death sentence. Brandon Council, 28, was convicted in September 2019 in the 2017 double murder of Conway bank employees Katie Skeen, 36, and…
Justin Baldoni plans to “expose” what his lawyer calls a “false” narrative created by Blake Lively’s legal complaint against the actor. The actor’s impending lawsuit will share the “truth” after Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment leading up to filming the Colleen Hoover-adapted movie, “It Ends With Us.” “This is not a response or countersuit…
“Races” are now “species” in the beloved game Dungeons & Dragons, which recently marked its 50th anniversary, irking some loyal fans. “Some character traits have been divorced from biological identity; a mountain dwarf is no longer inherently brawny and durable, a high elf no longer intelligent and dexterous by definition,” a report in The New…
Two months after Liam Payne’s death, an Argentine judge confirmed Monday charges filed against five people in connection with the British singer’s passing, according to The Associated Press. A judicial officer confirmed that two of the people were ordered to be put under preventive prison — a form of pre-trial detention — for having supplied…
Billionaire entrepreneur and top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, touted that he has reaped the benefits of a controversial class of weight-loss drugs, after fellow top Trump adviser, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said the trendy new class of drugs is bad for Americans’ health. “Ozempic Santa” Musk posted to X, formerly Twitter, on…
The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week. The fact that the virus mutated within the patient suggests that it could potentially spread from human to human. The CDC…
Former President Jimmy Carter, the first U.S. commander-in-chief to reach the age of 100, was fondly remembered by state leaders across the political spectrum after his passing. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said in a statement that he, first lady Marty Kemp and their children “join all Georgians and the entire nation in mourning the…
Kristin Cavallari has confirmed that country music star Morgan Wallen was “good in bed.” Cavallari noted that Wallen whad been a “true gentleman” on their first date, but explained that heir relationship never turned serious. “He was like, ‘I’ll pick you up. I’ll pick the place.’ Like just f—— handled business,” she told Bunnie Xo…