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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Democrats’ decision to support an independent party rather than nominate a member of their own party to take… Read More »Loss of McMullin in Utah raises questions about independent candidacy

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images At first glance, there are few word games that seem to require less active editing than wordle. After all, the… Read More »How ‘Wordle Editor’ Became a Real Job at The New York Times

At a congressional hearing in March, Mr. Wray that the agency had purchased a “limited license” to test and evaluate “as part of our routine… Read More »Internal Documents Show How Close the FBI Came to Using Spyware

A screenshot of a video showing grenades being dropped on a Russian soldier.TpyxaNews/Twitter A video appears to show a lone Russian soldier hiding in a… Read More »Dramatic video shows Russian soldier grabbing and throwing Ukrainian grenades just before they explode

Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a dual Russian and Canadian citizen for his alleged participation in a global campaign to distribute ransomware known as LockBit.… Read More »LockBit ransomware suspect arrested in Canada, charged in US

Photo illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty In a shocking statement on the eve of the US midterm elections, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of… Read More »Top Kremlin Darling shocks Putin officials with backstabbing spree

Sam Bankman-Fried’s pitch to investors wasn’t really a pitch: it was a take or leave offer. During meetings to raise money for his cryptocurrency exchange… Read More »Investors who also put $2 billion in FTX facial research

A TikTok video about the difference in reactions between Asian Americans and Asians regarding cultural appropriation has gone viral. Read choicewho has more than 4.5… Read More »TikTok sketch shows the difference between Asian-American and Asian responses to cultural appropriation

The US continues to see a dramatic and early rise in respiratory illness, which primarily affects young children and sets records for the decade. The… Read More »Southeast US has reached the roof of the CDC Respiratory Disease Scale

“I’m sorry again that we ended up here,” Mr Bankman-Fried said on Twitter on Friday. “Hopefully this can bring some degree of transparency, trust and… Read More »FTX files for bankruptcy as CEO Sam Bankman-Fried resigns

The lone statewide climate action on Tuesday’s California vote failed, even though it would have brought in billions to meet the state’s ambitious goals for… Read More »California climate action fails after ‘green’ governor opposed it

Jerry Springer fronted “The Jerry Springer Show” for 27 seasons between 1991 and 2018.Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Getty Images Jerry Springer said he believes he “has ruined the… Read More »Jerry Springer says his talk show, which has episodes like ‘I Married a Horse’ and ‘l’m Sleeping With My Brother’, has ‘ruined culture’

TOKYO (AP) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida postponed his departure Friday to the three upcoming summits in Southeast Asia to fire his justice minister… Read More »Japanese minister resigns after execution remark, prime minister postpones trip