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Month: June 2023

Energy Department among federal agencies breached by Russian ransomware gang

By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others among what could be hundreds

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Students meet under trees as schools shelter villagers displaced by Philippine volcano

By JIM GOMEZ AND AARON FAVILA Associated Press MALILIPOT, Philippines (AP) — Nearly 20,000 people have fled from an erupting Philippine volcano and taken shelter in schools, disrupting education for thousands of students, many of whom are having classes in chapels and tents or under trees, officials said Friday. The Mayon volcano in northeastern Albay

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Governor signs public funding bill for new A’s stadium in Vegas, growing global sports destination

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo signed into law Thursday a $380 million public financing package to help build a Major League Baseball stadium for the Oakland Athletics on the Las Vegas Strip as MLB’s commissioner outlined a months-long approval process for the A’s proposed move there. The

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Death of 2 Americans in Mexico resort hotel room now attributed to ‘undetermined substance’

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors in Mexico’s Baja California Sur state said Thursday that autopsies on two Americans found dead in their luxury hotel room suggest they died of “intoxication by an undetermined substance.” Local police initially said gas inhalation was suspected as the cause of death. The state prosecutors’ office said the bodies bore

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Suarez backs 15-week federal abortion ban, says he has ‘credibility’ on immigration conversation

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, the newest candidate in the Republican presidential field, is drawing some distinctions between himself and his rivals, suggesting that the six-week abortion ban signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is too severe and showing an openness to changing the country’s

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