A large multinational technology company received a nasty surprise recently when it was expanding its operations to China. The software that a local bank required the company to install in order to pay local taxes contained an advanced backdoor. The warning, detailed in a report released Thursday, said the software …
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Wind and solar energy approvals on federal land: Trump, 8; Obama 15
According to the report released yesterday by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the Department of the Interior under the Trump administration approved about half of the wind and solar projects on federal land that the Obama administration had at the same point in his first term. . . According …
Read More »London protesters wreck police cars when police try to shut down the party
An illegal London street party turned into a violent riot against police when officers tried to shut it down, with disturbing images showing a man waving a sword at a line of police officers. Scotland Yard says that at least 22 officers were wounded on Wednesday night when the large …
Read More »New Jersey schools will reopen with masks, social distancing and new general rules under newly released plan
New Jersey’s 2,500 public schools will open for the 2020-2021 school year, but classes will be unlike anything students and teachers have ever experienced before, state officials announced Friday. Students will be kept six feet apart in classrooms and on buses, lunch hours will be staggered, and teachers will be …
Read More »As US coronavirus cases increase, the country “will see more deaths,” says Dr. Fauci.
As coronavirus cases increase mainly in the southern and western United States, the country will soon “see more deaths,” White House health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Friday. Deaths from Covid-19 lag behind other data points, such as hospitalizations, which lag behind confirmed infections, as the disease can take weeks …
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