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Supreme Court says last year’s leak may have been ‘inadvertent’

The Supreme Court said Thursday an eight-month investigation that included more than 120 interviews and revealed shortcomings in how sensitive documents are secured has failed to find who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights. Ninety-seven employees, including the justices’ law clerks, swore under oath that they… Read More

T-Mobile announces data theft from 37 million customers

The U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers, including addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. T-Mobile said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the breach was discovered… Read More

Report: Attacking polar bear emerged unseen from snowstorm

Summer Myomick bundled her baby against the freezing winds whipping off the Bering Sea and stepped outside into a blur of blowing snow. It was a short walk from the school where she had visited relatives to the health clinic about 150 yards (137 meters) away, but the young mother… Read More

Bills’ Hamlin faces long recovery, family spokesman says

Remarkable as Damar Hamlin’s recovery has been, the Buffalo Bills safety still faces a lengthy rehabilitation some three weeks after going into cardiac arrest and needing to be resuscitated on the field during a game in Cincinnati, his marketing representative told The Associated Press on Thursday night. “Damar still requires… Read More

Essential GOP race shaken up by this one question

Ronna Romney McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, is campaigning for a fourth term as the GOP’s top fundraiser. McDaniel first became RNC chair in 2017, around the time of former President Donald Trump’s inauguration. In her three terms, she’s presided over three underwhelming elections for the GOP. Now, some… Read More

Did Trump just wink at leaving the GOP?!

Former President Donald Trump had become surprisingly inactive since announcing his re-election campaign more than two months ago, until he made a bold move earlier this month. In early January, Trump went on Truth Social to share a column speculating about a third-party candidacy. Some commentators took Trump’s actions as… Read More

Big Tech bloodbath: Google, following Microsoft, axes 12,000 jobs

Google is laying off 12,000 workers, or about 6% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to trim staff as the economic boom that the industry rode during the COVID-19 pandemic ebbed. CEO Sundar Pichai informed staff Friday at the Silicon Valley giant about the cuts in an email… Read More

Stolen hot dog statue returned to WV restaurant owner after fire

The owner of a West Virginia restaurant that was heavily damaged by fire has his coveted hot dog statue back. The “Wienerman” statue was stolen from the Dairy Winkle in Campbells Creek during a break-in sometime after the Jan. 11 fire, the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office said in a news… Read More

USDA boosts oversight of ‘organic’ food, citing fraud

The Agriculture Department on Thursday issued new requirements for foods labeled organic, a move aimed at cracking down on fraud and boosting oversight. The rule strengthens enforcement of the USDA’s strict definitions of organic, which must rely on “natural substances and physical, mechanical or biologically based farming methods to the… Read More

Rock star David Crosby dies at 81, sister in law says

David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, has died at 81, several media outlets reported Thursday. The New York Times reported, based on a text… Read More