Feds in NYC: Hackers Stole $45M in ATM Card Breach A gang of cyber-criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday. More
Man who faked his way into cockpit pleads guilty to fraud The man who conned his way into the cockpit of an US Airways flight in March pleaded guilty Wednesday in Philadelphia to one count of fraud in connection with an identification document. More
Porn and movies, not tech secrets, found on Chinese spy suspect's NASA laptop The Chinese national taken into custody on an airplane waiting to take off for home had pornography and illegally downloaded movies on his NASA computer, not government secrets, reports say. He is now set to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating NASA computer rules. More
FBI says tests link deadly ricin to Miss. suspect A dust mask and other items linked to a Mississippi martial arts instructor contained ricin, a deadly poison found in letters sent to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a state judge, according to an FBI document released Tuesday. More
Bombing suspects' mom also in terror database Two government officials tell The Associated Press that U.S. intelligence agencies added the Boston bombing suspects' mother to a federal terrorism database about 18 months before the attack.... More
How scared should we be of bird flu? A cow grazes in a field at a dairy farm on April 26 in Petaluma, Calif. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ordering dairy producers to test cows that produce milk for infections from highly ... 05/6/2024 - 12:00 pm | View Link
CIA director to travel to Israel for continued hostage-ceasefire talks CIA Director William Burns plans to travel to Israel for an emergency meeting with the Qatari prime minister for more hostage-ceasefire talks. The trip comes after discussions in the Qatari capital ... 05/5/2024 - 9:38 am | View Link
Northern Gaza is in ‘full-blown famine,’ World Food Program leader says Hamas officials were in Cairo on Saturday for negotiations that could produce a temporary cease-fire in Gaza in exchange for the release of some of the hostages the militant group is holding there. 05/3/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
Hamas, CIA director to hold talks in Cairo on Gaza truce CIA Director William Burns arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Friday for meetings about the conflict in Gaza, an Egyptian security source and three sources at Cairo airport said. 05/3/2024 - 8:50 am | View Link
CIA Director William Burns in Egypt for high-stakes Israeli hostage, cease-fire talks The hostage and cease-fire talks have taken on new urgency amid a looming Israeli ground invasion of Rafah, in southern Gaza. 05/3/2024 - 8:09 am | View Link
Readers of mainstream news may have learned after the fact about the role Christian evangelicals played in passing arms funding for Ukraine, but the reports they saw uniformly omitted a crucial aspect: The plan to shape Ukraine as a bulwark against LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights.
Instead, sites ranging from Voice of America to the Washington Post described the efforts by Ukrainian evangelicals with no mention of their allies, backers, records or rhetoric.
Florida Senator Rick Scott, who founded the corrupt Columbia Hospital Corporation, went to New York to support Trump.
The company that Sen. Scott founded was fined a historic $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud after being charged with defrauding the healthcare system of hundreds of millions of dollars that led to his ouster.
Scott tried to defend Trump by citing his own fraud case as a political prosecution, but ended up sounding like a moronic twit who can't put two sentences together.
Q: Do you believe Stormy Daniels or Donald Trump?
Scott: This is nothing about Stormy Daniels.
Can we please take a moment to feel bad for all of the oppressed white men in this country? Daily Wire snowflake Matt Walsh has had it with airport workers who aren't white. Walsh claims, and I have no idea where he's getting his info from, although Infowars is my first guess, that white men aren't allowed to build airports anymore.
Congress debated adding a question about citizenship to the US Census.
Representative Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, being the full-blooded racist that he is, wants to keep immigrants from being counted. And to promote that, he thought he had found a gotcha clause that would just burn the Democrats. He forgot all about Representative Jamie Raskin:
Grothman: First of all, our pledge of allegiance, which we say every day, we pledge allegiance to the republic for which we stand - right - that the flag in the republic for which we stand.
“Federal prosecutors have charged former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry in Washington for allegedly lying to investigators in connection with a campaign finance probe of a foreign billionaire’s political contributions,” Politico reports.
“Fortenberry (R-NE) was convicted of the same charges by a jury in Los Angeles in 2022, but the 9th U. S.
New Republic: “There is nothing new or unexpected about Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrogance. When President Bill Clinton first met him at the White House in 1996—mere weeks after Netanyahu first took office as Israel’s prime minister—he reportedly seethed to aides, ‘Who the fuck does he think he is? Who’s the fucking superpower here?’ That arrogance subsequently caused rifts with Republican and Democratic presidents alike.