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U.K. will fine Facebook over Cambridge Analytica data breaches, regulator says

Facebook broke the law by failing to safeguard people’s information and was not transparent about how data was harvested, the British regulator said. LONDON – Britain’s information regulator said on Wednesday she intends to fine Facebook for breaches of data protection law as her office investigates how millions of users’ data was improperly accessed by […]

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Russian intel officers charged with hacking Dems, Clinton to disrupt election

The charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller were revealed just days before President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin. WASHINGTON — Twelve Russian intelligence officers have been indicted in connection with the bitcoin-funded hacking of Democratic organizations and the Hillary Clinton campaign “with the intent to interfere” in the 2016 election, officials […]

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Jury: Chicago cop acted ‘reasonably’ in fatally shooting teen QuintonioLeGrier

CHICAGO — An Illinois jury on Wednesday found a Chicago cop acted “reasonably” in a 2015 police shooting that also left an innocent bystander dead and exacerbated already fraught relations for law enforcement in black neighborhoods in the nation’s third-largest city. Jurors awarded $1.05 million in damages to the estate of QuintonioLeGrier, 19, following the […]

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Supreme Court Upholds Travel Ban

The Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which restricts entry from seven countries to varying degrees: Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Venezuela. The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries. It was 5-4 […]

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