US District Judge Loretta Preska said on Monday that the lines from a sealed 2016 deposition related only to massages and not private sexual activity of consenting adults, so the public’s right to know outweighed Maxwell’s privacy interests. “There is no reason not to unseal this portion of testimony,” Preska …
Read More »Family of 20yo who committed suicide says Robinhood caused his death w/ ‘reckless tactics’ that prey on inexperienced
Filed in California’s Santa Clara County Superior Court on Monday, the 30-page complaint from the family of Alex Kearns accuses the online trading app of luring a young, inexperienced investor into transactions he “did not understand” and misleading him to believe he had incurred hundreds of thousands of dollars in …
Read More »Telegram scores top spot as most-downloaded app in the WORLD for January, founder reveals
The secure chat app finally hit #1 last month after growing 40 percent over each year, according to founder Pavel Durov, who credited Telegram’s win to “consistency” in a celebratory post on his Telegram channel. “For the last 7.5 years we’ve consistently defended the privacy of our users and regularly …
Read More »First sitting US Congressman to die after Covid-19 diagnosis gets posthumously scorned by critics over stance on lockdowns
Wright, who was 67 at the time of his death, has been reported by many outlets as the first sitting congressional member to die from the virus. Representatives confirmed his death on Monday and said he and his wife had been hospitalized for two weeks. “For the previous two weeks, …
Read More »Georgia secretary of state launches ‘fact-finding probe’ into Trump’s demand to ‘find votes’ in 2020 election
A spokesperson for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed the probe on Monday, stating that his office is responding to formal complaints made by a law professor who claims the ex-president illegally pressured officials to find evidence to help overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the state. “The Secretary of State’s …
Read More »‘Hacker’ targets Florida water facility with poisonous, caustic chemical used in drain cleaners. FBI & Secret Service investigate
The breach on the water facility in Oldsmar, Florida boosted levels of sodium hydroxide in the system by nearly a hundredfold late last week, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told reporters on Monday, calling it an “awful intrusion.” “The hacker changed the sodium hydroxide from about 100 parts per million …
Read More »Biden’s softer deportation policy to let some felons stay, say DHS guidelines leaked to media
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will focus on recent illegal border crossings, national security threats, and people completing prison terms for “aggravated felony” convictions, according to emails sent by acting director Tae Johnson last week and quoted by the Washington Post on Sunday. “Generally, these convictions would not include …
Read More »Facebook to BAN claims about ‘man-made’ Covid-19 & ‘unsafe’ vaccines as it launches election-like campaign to promote vaccination
Under the ‘Community Standards’ policy, posts with “debunked claims” that Covid-19 is “man-made or manufactured,” or that vaccines are ineffective, unsafe, dangerous or cause autism will be removed starting Monday, VP of Integrity Guy Rosen announced on the Facebook blog. The new policy was implemented following consultations with the World …
Read More »Springsteen’s Super Bowl call for unity in ‘ReUnited States’ is hollow plea meant only for fellow Trump haters
To say Springsteen doesn’t like Trump might be a bit of an understatement. The ‘Born in the USA’ singer was so against the former president that he ‘joked’ he’d leave his beloved country if he was reelected. “If Trump is reelected – which he will not be; I’m predicting right …
Read More »Russian Air Force experts publish plan to neutralize NATO forces in all-out war with bombing strikes against key military targets
Writing in a new edition of the Air and Space Forces Journal, two associate professors at Russia’s pilot-training academy set out how any invasion launched against the country by NATO allies would depend on a massive aerial bombardment with warplanes and missiles. Vladilen Stuchinsky and Mikhail Korolkov say, however, that …
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