Month: August 2022
Donald Trump reportedly kept hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago – as it happened – The Guardian US
Donald Trump reportedly kept hundreds of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago – as it happened The Guardian US Classified records: 700 pages retrieved at Trump home in January Al Jazeera English Trump Files Were Sought Months Ago to Assess US Security Damage Bloomberg Trump
Read MoreIn Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Is Held Hostage
Five months after Russian forces took over the Zaporizhzhia plant, all that stands between the world and nuclear disaster are dedicated Ukrainian operators working at gunpoint.
Read MoreWhat the Twitter Whistleblower Disclosure Says About Spam Bots, and What It Means for Elon Musk
Twitter’s former security chief has alleged that Twitter has far more spam bots on its platform than it acknowledges, and that executives deprioritized getting an accurate count—in part because the truth may not look good to advertisers. Additionally, the method
Read More‘Egregious Deficiencies,’ Bots, and Foreign Agents: The Biggest Allegations From the Twitter Whistleblower
Twitter’s former top security official has alleged that company executives endangered national security through “egregious deficiencies” in privacy and security and systematically misled users, members of its board, investors, and government officials about those vulnerabilities. The former official, Peiter “Mudge”
Read More‘They would have preferred hell’: The Battle of Stalingrad, 80 years on
The Second World War’s deadliest battle – and one of the most brutal of all time – started on August 23, 1942, when Adolf Hitler’s forces went all out to seize the city bearing Joseph Stalin’s name. If ever a
Read MoreArgentina prosecutor seeks 12 yrs jail for VP Kirchner in graft trial
Argentina’s public prosecutor on Monday asked that Vice President Cristina Kirchner be sentenced to 12 years in prison and disqualified from public office for life for alleged corruption during her two terms as president. Kirchner, 69, is accused of fraudulently
Read MoreFrom Meat to Insulin, How the Middlemen Economy Makes Everything More Expensive
The Federal Trade Commission recently launched an inquiry into the practices of pharmacy benefit managers, known in the industry as PBMs. PBMs are the hidden middlemen who were supposed to make drug distribution more efficient. Yet over time, they have
Read MoreEverything we actually know about the Moscow car bombing
Russian officials investigate the scene after the car of Darya Dugina, daughter of a Russian political scientist and ally of President Vladimir Putin, exploded on August 21, 2022. | Russian Investigative Committee/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A Russian politics expert
Read MoreWith International Army Games, Russia tries to show it’s not ‘a pariah state’
Russia’s eighth annual International Army Games, a sports event designed to showcase military skills and running from August 13-27, are taking place this year against the tense backdrop of war in Ukraine. FRANCE 24 spoke to Colonel Mark F. Cancian
Read MoreRussia and Turkey’s Deepening Ties Prompt Concern in West
The relationship has sharpened concern among senior officials in Washington and Europe that Turkish policies are working against Western sanctions imposed on Russia as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine.
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