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US Launches Fresh Strikes on Iran as Talks to End War Proceed

US Launches Fresh Strikes on Iran as Talks to End War Proceed

Published by Sam Flores

By Elwely Elwelly and Phil Stewart DUBAI/WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) – U.S. forces on Monday conducted strikes in southern Iran against targets including boats ⁠attempting ⁠to lay mines and missile launch sites, in what it described as ⁠defensive actions. The strikes came as Iran’s top negotiator and its foreign minister were in Doha for talks with Qatar’s prime minister on a potential deal with the U.S. ​to end the three-month-old war, an official briefed on the visit said on Monday, after Washington and Tehran played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in New Delhi earlier that the U.S. would give diplomacy every chance to ‌succeed before considering whether to deal with Iran in “another way”. There was ‌a “pretty solid thing on the table in terms of their ability to open up the strait (of Hormuz), get the strait open, enter into a very real, significant, time-limited negotiation on the nuclear matter, and hopefully we can pull it off,” Rubio said. In a lengthy ⁠post on Truth …

Ex-Con Hacker Twins Fired – Proceed To Wipe Out 96 Government Databases In Minutes

Ex-Con Hacker Twins Fired – Proceed To Wipe Out 96 Government Databases In Minutes

Published by Jenni Sidey

Note to employers: When you discover your twin brother employees are ex-cons who did time for hacking into the US State Department, and go to fire them, make sure you fully disable their access.  February 2025, twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter turned a routine job termination into one of the most brazen insider sabotage incidents in recent U.S. government history. Just minutes after being fired from Opexus – a Washington, D.C.-area contractor that provides critical case-management software to more than 45 federal agencies – the brothers allegedly launched a rapid digital assault that deleted approximately 96 government databases containing sensitive FOIA records, investigative files, and taxpayer data. Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter What made the case especially shocking was the brothers’ prior history: both had served prison time for hacking federal systems a decade earlier.  A Decade-Old Criminal Record The Akhter brothers, both 34 and from Alexandria, Virginia, had a criminal past that Opexus completely missed – which, given what they do, is not great. In 2015, while working as contractors, they pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire …

Court allows Meta youth addiction lawsuit to proceed in Massachusetts

Court allows Meta youth addiction lawsuit to proceed in Massachusetts

Published by Sam Flores

A Massachusetts high court ruled Friday that the state attorney general’s social media addiction case against Meta Platforms can move forward. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled the case can proceed as Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s (D) case targets Meta’s alleged conduct in designing a social media platform, rather than the content posted… Source link

Live Nation trial resumes, as 32 states proceed with trial

Live Nation trial resumes, as 32 states proceed with trial

Published by Sam Flores

Live Nation, the ticketing giant that reached a tentative settlement with the Department of Justice last week, remains under fire. A coalition of more than 30 states that had joined the original lawsuit filed in 2024 is refusing to accept the $200-million settlement, causing the trial to resume this week in federal court in Manhattan. The settlement with the Justice Department requires Beverly Hills-based Live Nation to open Ticketmaster to rival ticket sellers, force the company to open select venues to competing promoters and cap service fees at 15%. California is one of the key states still involved in the trial. But those steps fall short, critics say. “It’s clear that Live Nation has manipulated the market and made itself untouchable by competitors, hurting artists, hurting fans, hurting venues, all the while, raking in the cash,” California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said at the Capitol Forum conference last week. “Not because it’s a better service or product, because it acted illegally and created a monopoly.” U.S. senators have also chimed in. Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar recently …

Senate should proceed with Warsh hearings for Fed chair: Bessent

Senate should proceed with Warsh hearings for Fed chair: Bessent

Published by Sam Flores

The Senate should move to advance Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Federal Reserve chairman, even as a federal criminal investigation into current chair Jerome Powell continues, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday. Bessent, in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” said he believes after speaking this week to Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee that they “are going to proceed” with a nomination hearing. “I think it’s important to get the hearings underway, and I think we have an agreement to do that,” he said. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., has vowed to block Warsh’s nomination from moving through the Banking Committee unless the Department of Justice drops its probe into Powell. Trump, however, has said the criminal probe, led by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, should continue to the end, setting up a potential impasse. Powell, whom Trump appointed during his first term, has declined to raise interest rates as much as the administration has urged him to do. Tillis has also rejected an idea, floated this week, to …

Winter Drilling Program in Alaska Petroleum Preserve Can Proceed, Judge Rules

Winter Drilling Program in Alaska Petroleum Preserve Can Proceed, Judge Rules

Published by Sam Flores

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — ConocoPhillips Alaska can proceed with an oil and gas exploration program in a portion of a vast petroleum reserve in the state after a federal judge denied a request from project opponents to halt it. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason rejected a request by conservation groups and an Iñupiat-aligned group that sought to halt ConocoPhillips Alaska’s planned exploration program in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska until the groups’ legal challenge to the program’s authorization by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management was resolved. The groups said the federal government improperly analyzed the drilling program. The company, meanwhile, said the program was imperative to preserving its leases. Gleason said in her order dated Tuesday that the groups had not shown that they have a “fair chance of success” on the merits of their claims. The decision comes after a mobile drilling rig the company planned to use as part of its program toppled onto snow-covered tundra near existing oil and gas infrastructure while being transported last week. Attorneys for the company in …