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Gas prices fall 4 cents a gallon to $2.60 in past 2 weeksThe average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has declined 4 cents a gallon to $2.60 over the past two weeks
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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2019, file photo, the Capitol is seen in Washington. It’s been more than three years since Russia's sweeping effort to interfere in U.S. elections through disinformation on social media, stolen campaign emails and attacks on voting systems. U.S. officials have made advances in trying to prevent similar attacks from undermining the 2020 vote, but challenges remain. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Lessons learned from 2016, but US faces new election threatsIt’s been more than three years since Russia's sweeping effort to interfere in U.S. elections through disinformation on social media, stolen campaign emails and attacks on voting systems. U.S. officials have made advances in trying to prevent similar attacks from undermining the 2020 vote, but challenges remain
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Epstein Pal's Email Was Hacked: LetterOld pals of Jeffrey Epstein, look out: Emails of his alleged madam may well have been hacked. So says a letter from Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer about documents unsealed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Fox News reports. In the letter—written in response to a defamation case against Ghislaine...
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Report: Ford to pay $30M-plus for lawsuit over transmissionsFord will pay at least $30 million in a proposed settlement over a class-action lawsuit related to failing transmissions in its Fiesta and Focus vehicles
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With Lawyers Gone, Holmes Phones In to Arizona CourtElizabeth Holmes is stretched thin in a couple of ways right now. The criminal case against the former head of Theranos is being heard in San Jose. A civil case—a fraud lawsuit—is proceeding in Arizona. Her lawyers handling the fraud suit have quit because they weren't being paid....
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FILE - In this June 6, 2019, file photo Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas. Two U.N. experts this week called for the U.S. to investigate a likely hack of Bezos' phone that could have involved Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A commissioned forensic report found with “medium to high confidence” that Bezos' phone was compromised by a video MP4 file he received from the prince in May 2018. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
The big lesson from the Bezos hack: Anyone can be a targetYou probably don't think you're in the same league as Jeff Bezos when it comes to being a hacking target
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California OKs highly questioned LA County voting systemCalifornia's secretary of state has approved Los Angeles County’s unique new publicly owned computerized voting system
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Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health, speaks at a news conference, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in Chicago. A Chicago woman has become the second U.S. patient diagnosed with the dangerous new virus from China, health officials said. The patient is doing well and remains hospitalized "primarily for infection control," said Dr. Arwady said. (Tyler LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
For businesses, virus in China fans fear and uncertaintyChina’s worst health crisis in years has sparked fear and uncertainty for businesses from North America to Asia that depend on trade in the affected region
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Flames from the Morton Fire consume a home near Bundanoon, New South Wales, Australia, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
3 Americans killed in Australia all had military backgroundsThree Americans killed when their plane crashed while fighting wildfires in Australia all had strong military backgrounds and a passion for flying
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French govt defends teen girl bullied for anti-Islam postsThe cyber-bullying must stop
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FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, March 28, 2012, a security cctv camera is seen by the Olympic Stadium at the Olympic Park in London. The South Wales police deployed facial recognition surveillance equipment on Sunday Jan. 12, 2020, in a test to monitor crowds arriving for a weekend soccer match in real-time, that is prompting public debate about possible aggressive uses of facial recognition in Western democracies, raising questions about human rights and how the technology may enter people's daily lives in the future. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, FILE)
London police to use face scan tech, stoking privacy fearsLondon's police force says it will start using live facial recognition cameras in operational deployments, in a major advance for the controversial technology
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Greece: Government websites hit by cyberattack The Greek government says the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were briefly disabled by a cyberattack but have been restored
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Maria Hernandez and her son, Alejandro Ambriz, 10, stand by the kitchen where the ceiling collapsed in their home, just one street east where an explosion occurred Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 in Houston. A massive explosion early Friday leveled a warehouse and damaged nearby buildings and homes, rousing frightened people from their sleep miles away. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)
2 killed, 20 injured when warehouse explosion shakes HoustonTwo people were killed after a massive explosion at a Houston industrial company
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Cory Doctorow, right, walks in front of other protestors Friday, Jan. 24, 2020, in Los Angeles outside the headquarters of the regulatory body for domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The company that controls the dot-org online universe is putting the registry of domain names up for sale, and the nonprofits that often use the suffix in their websites are raising concerns about the move. ICANN is meeting this weekend and is expected to rule by mid-February on plans by private-equity firm Ethos Capital to buy the Public Interest Registry for $1.1 billion. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Protesters fear rising costs if firm buys dot-org universeActivists have protested the planned sale of dot-org online universe to an investment firm because they fear costs would soar
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