A federal prosecutor says a wealthy Russian businessman and associates made nearly $90 million dollars cheating the stock market in an elaborate scheme of hacking into U.S. computer systems to steal insider information.
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Dolphins, humans both benefit from fishing collaboration
In Brazil, scientists have, for the first time, used drones, underwater sound recordings and other tools to document how local people and dolphins coordinate actions and benefit from each other’s labor.
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Seventh Memphis officer disciplined, EMTs fired in Nichols death
A seventh Memphis Police Department officer has been disciplined and emergency medical technicians fired for their involvement in the brutal police beating and arrest of Tyre Nichols.
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Death toll from Pakistan mosque suicide bombing rises to 74
Pakistan, which is mostly Sunni Muslim, has seen a surge in militant attacks since November when the Pakistani Taliban ended their cease-fire with government forces.
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U.S. Secretary of State urges Israel-Palestinian calm as violence soars
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israel and the Palestinians to exercise restraint amid a spike in violence that has put the region on edge
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Tyre Nichols case revives calls for change in police culture
Nichols’ fatal encounter with police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, is a glaring reminder that efforts to reform policing have failed to prevent more flashpoints in an intractable epidemic of brutality.
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‘Hurricane Hazel,’ mayor of Mississauga into her 90s, dies
Hazel McCallion, 101, leaves behind a legacy of feisty advocacy and more than three decades of nearly unchallenged leadership.
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Emails reveal tensions in Colorado River talks
Scientists say the megadrought gripping the southwestern U.S. is the worst in 1,200 years.
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Israeli-Palestinian cauldron tests U.S. as Blinken visits
Officials say the theme of the Secretary of State’s talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will be ‘de-escalation.’
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Priscilla Presley files petition questioning validity of Lisa Marie Presley’s will
Priscilla Presley, along with former business manager, Barry Siegel, is currently a co-trustee of Lisa Marie Presley’s estate and is seeking to keep it that way – despite the 2016 amendment allegedly naming Riley and Benjamin Keough as the sole trustees.