Officials said the court and other systems in Georgia’s most populous county were hacked over the weekend, interrupting routine operations, but the district attorney’s office said the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump was unaffected. Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta, was experiencing a “widespread system outage” from a “cybersecurity incident,” county commission Chair Robb Pitts said Monday …
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Greyhound bus crash in Alabama leaves at least 1 dead and several injured
At least one person was killed and several others were hurt when a Greyhound bus crashed into a car late Monday night in north-central Alabama, near the Tennessee state line, authorities said. The 23-year-old driver of the compact SUV died in the crash, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a statement to CBS News on Tuesday morning. The agency …
Read More »Arkansas murder suspect Jatonia Bryant recaptured days after fellow escapee caught
Pine Bluff, Ark. — Arkansas authorities on Monday captured a detainee being held on murder charges who escaped a local jail. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said officers captured Jatonia Bryant on the east side of Pine Bluff, about 40 miles southeast of Little Rock, while he was walking in the area. Bryant was taken into custody without incident, the …
Read More »Ex-Pakistan leader Imran Khan gets 10 years for revealing state secrets, in latest controversial legal move
Islamabad — A Pakistani court convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan of revealing official secrets on Tuesday and sentenced him to 10 years – the latest in a slew of legal cases that supporters say are meant to sideline the imprisoned former cricket star just days ahead of parliamentary elections. The Islamist politician, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote …
Read More »Hacked-up bodies found inside coolers aboard trucks — along with warning message from Mexican cartel
An undetermined number of hacked-up bodies have been found in two vehicles abandoned on a bridge in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz, prosecutors said Monday. A banner left on one of the vehicles included an apparent warning message from a powerful cartel. The bodies were found Sunday in the city of Tuxpan, not far from the Gulf coast. The …
Read More »More navigators are helping women travel to have abortions
Chloe Bell is a case manager at the National Abortion Federation. She spends her days helping people cover the cost of an abortion and, increasingly, the interstate travel many of them need to get the procedure. “What price did they quote you?” Bell asked a woman from New Jersey who had called the organization’s hotline seeking money to pay for …
Read More »Shark attacks and seriously injures woman swimming in Sydney Harbor: I heard a soft yell for help
A shark mauled a woman in the first attack in Sydney Harbor in 15 years, officials said Tuesday, sending her to hospital with a serious leg injury. The predator struck Monday evening as the woman swam off a wharf at Elizabeth Bay, about 1.2 miles from Sydney Opera House, police said. The woman suffered a “serious injury to her right …
Read More »Space Shuttle Endeavour prepares for its final liftoff
Excitement is in the air as the Space Shuttle Endeavour prepares to move into its permanent home at the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center. “This feels surreal. It’s been so long I’ve been waiting 34 years for this moment,” said Kenneth Phillips, curator of aerospace science at the California Science Center and one of the brains behind this first-of-its-kind …
Read More »House committee set to advance articles of impeachment against Alejandro Mayorkas
Washington — The House Homeland Security Committee is on track to advance articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Tuesday, which would pave the way for a full House vote in the coming days. House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against President Biden’s top immigration official, accusing him of “willful and systemic refusal to comply …
Read More »Data shows at least 8,500 U.S. schools at greater risk of measles outbreaks as vaccination rates decline
Jessica Fichtel can’t understand why her neighbors chose not to vaccinate their kids and, consequently, increased the risk of her son getting measles? The Vancouver, Washington, mom struggled every day to keep her then-6-year-old, Kai, alive while he underwent chemotherapy to fight childhood leukemia during the measles outbreak there in 2019. “His life would be in grave danger if he …
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