Authorities in Texas are investigating after human remains were found in the jaws of an alligator while officers were searching the area for a missing woman. The gruesome discovery in Houston comes less than a year after the body of a woman was found in the mouth of a gator in Florida. “Patrol officers located the remains of a woman …
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29 May
Feds take down one of worlds largest malicious botnets and arrest its administrator
Washington — Federal investigators took down one of the world’s largest malicious botnets, one that helped generate tens of thousands of fraudulent transactions that cost victims billions — including many related to COVID relief funding. Law enforcement also arrested the botnet’s administrator, YunHe Wang, a Chinese national. He’s been accused of orchestrating an international plot to deploy malware and surreptitiously …
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29 May
Jenna Ellis, ex-Trump campaign legal adviser, has Colorado law license suspended for 3 years
Washington — Jenna Ellis, who served as a legal adviser to former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, is barred from practicing law in the state of Colorado for three years, according to an agreement reached with state legal regulators. Under the deal approved Tuesday by a presiding disciplinary judge of the Colorado Supreme Court, Ellis’ suspension of her …
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29 May
3 Black passengers sue American Airlines after alleging racial discrimination following odor complaint
Three passengers are suing American Airlinesafter alleging employees from the company removed a total of eight Black men from a flight due to a complaint about a passenger with body odor. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, claims that as American Airlines Flight 832 from Phoenix to New York was boarding …
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29 May
Jury deliberates in case of Chad Daybell, accused of murder in 3 deaths
An Idaho jury resumed deliberations Thursday in the case of Chad Daybell, who is accused in the deaths of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, the children of his second wife, Lori Vallow Daybell. The jury started its deliberations Wednesday afternoon in the trial, which started nearly two months ago, comes after Vallow Daybell’s …
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29 May
U.S.-made bomb used in Israeli strike on Rafah that killed dozens, munitions experts say
Analysis of images of shrapnel gathered at the scene of an Israeli strike in Rafah on Sunday showed evidence of a bomb that was a U.S.-made GBU-39, two munitions experts told CBS News. Dozens of Palestinians were killed in the strike and subsequent fires. “I instantly knew the housing was a GBU,” Trevor Ball, who worked as an ordnance disposal …
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29 May
Alito tells congressional Democrats he wont recuse over flags
Justice Samuel Alito is flatly rejecting calls to recuse himself in two cases before the Supreme Court involving former President Donald Trump because of two flags that flew outside his homes. In letters Wednesday to House and Senate Democrats, Alito said he had nothing to do with the flying of the flags, and that nothing about the incidents merited recusal …
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29 May
As investors pour in, for-profit nursing homes leave some seniors in need
Based on her medical condition, Grace Song had been labeled a fall risk by the Southern California nursing home where the 92-year-old spent a month earlier this year. So it was a surprise to her family when they learned she was left alone in the bathroom, fell, and was rushed to the emergency room. “This is where you feel, how …
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29 May
The bird flu vaccine is made with eggs. That has scientists worried.
Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs. They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they’re worrying now. That’s because millions of fertilized hen eggs are still the main ingredient in making vaccines that, hopefully, will protect people against the outbreak of a new flu strain. “It’s …
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29 May
Worlds first wooden satellite built by Japanese researchers
Tokyo — The world’s first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft is scheduled to be carried into space off on a SpaceX rocket in September. Each side of the experimental satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry measures four inches. The creators expect the wooden material will …
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