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In yesterday’s massive Twitter attack, some of the highest-profile accounts on the service, including President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, were hijacked to sell bitcoin scams. Notably, however, Donald Trump, perhaps the most famous Twitter user of all, was unaffected by the attack, and it could …

WASHINGTON – A federal judge in California extended the first-imposed deadline that ordered the release of immigrant children detained with their parents in ICE family detention centers. The deadline was initially set for Friday, and if the deadline was not extended, migrant children were at risk of being separated from …

A new genus and species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaur that lived during the Triassic period has been identified from fossils found in northern Switzerland. Schleitheimia schutzi (left) and Plateosaurus (Right). Image credit: Beat Scheffold. Schleitheimia schutzi lived approximately 210 million years ago (Triassic period) in what is now Switzerland. The …

A New York police officer is said to be seriously injured during what was supposed to be a “peaceful” protest on Wednesday, facing two broken orbital bones inside the eye, a dozen stitches and a possible concussion. An attacker reportedly hit him in the face with something like brass knuckles, …

To blink A distant supermassive black hole appears to have rebooted, into a cosmic flaw so surprising that it would leave The Matrix architects baffled. Astronomers observing the black hole watched as its corona, the incredibly bright ring of particles that surrounds its event horizon, disappeared over the course of …