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☆ US proposes ban on smart cars with Chinese and Russian tech
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The US Commerce Department on Monday will propose a ban on the sale or import of smart vehicles that use specific Chinese or Russian technology because of national security concerns, according to US officials. The rule would not apply to cars already on the road in the US that already have Chinese software installed, a senior administration official told CNN. The software ban would take effect for vehicles for “model year” 2027 and the hardware ban for “model year” 2030, according to the Commerce Department. If millions more smart cars with vulnerable, Chinese-made tech are on US roads, “the risk of disruption and sabotage increases dramatically,” he said. “China opposes the US’s broadening of the concept of national security and the discriminatory actions taken against Chinese companies and products,” said Lin Jian, spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement.

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☆ JetBlue flight makes emergency landing after smoke alert in cargo hold
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Nbc News | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A JetBlue flight made an emergency landing in Kansas on Saturday after pilots were alerted to smoke in the cargo hold, but an inspection revealed it was a false alarm, the airline said. The plane descended safely and landed “without incident,” the airline said in a statement. Flight 1189 was traveling from New York to San Diego when the pilot announced that an alert was received for fire or smoke in the cargo hold area, according to passenger Seth Odell. “The pilot came on [the intercom] and let us know that he was seeing an alert for smoke in the cargo bay,” Odell said. Odell said the plane’s pilot told passengers that there was no indication of an actual fire once they had landed.

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☆ At least 4 killed and dozens more injured in Birmingham shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Alex Lo | Alex Lo Is An Assignment Editor For Nbc News Based In New York. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

At least four people were killed and dozens more were injured in a shooting at in Birmingham, Alabama police said early Sunday. “We believe that multiple shooters fired multiple shots on a group of people,” he said. Fitzgerald did not speculate on a motive, but said that investigators were “told that all of the victims were out in the open, on either a sidewalk or the street. It is the second mass shooting in the city this year. In July, four people were killed at a nightclub.

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☆ Why that blackmailer claiming to have your search history probably doesn't
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Federal and state police across the country warned about a rise in the number of email "sextortion" scams this month. The Maryland State Police said in a statement on Thursday that reports of one sextortion scam targeting Gmail users surged in August and September. In these scams, someone tells a victim they have access to embarrassing search history or compromising photos. This means the scammers may have access to your email and even some of your current or former passwords, but they do not have access to your computer or search history. The Maryland State Police say to be cautious of any "unsolicited" emails you receive to your Gmail account to avoid being the victim of a scam.

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☆ Inside the island fortress of America's mega-billionaires
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Guthrie Scrimgeour | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

An Israeli-designed radar system encircling the island can detect passersby, in low visibility, from half a mile away. Often described as "butlers with badges," the Indian Creek police force is unlike most of its counterparts. The Indian Creek radar can detect objects on the water and use artificial intelligence to classify them according to the risk they pose. With the new security system, the Indian Creek police appear to have turbocharged their enforcement of regulations in the surrounding waters. Properties in the neighborhood are also being bought up by opaquely named LLCs tied to Indian Creek residents.

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☆ I went to Target with a $100 budget for clothes. I found 5 high-end dupes to refresh my wardrobe.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I went shopping with a $100 budget to see what clothes I could buy. I found five standout items that could refresh my wardrobe and serve as high-end dupes. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! I'm also a big fan of Target's clothes, shoes, and accessories. Though I try to thrift most of my wardrobe, I've often turned to the department store, like when I wanted to buy trendy ballet flats but didn't want to drop $1,000 on a designer pair.

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As the Fed lowers its benchmark rate, mortgage rates are expected to ease in 2024 and 2025. A lot of people assume that when the Fed cuts rates, mortgage rates will drop, too. By the time the Fed actually gets around to cutting rates, mortgage rates typically already reflect the impact of that cut. 5-Year Mortgage Rate TrendsHere's how 30-year and 15-year mortgage rates have trended over the last five years, according to Freddie Mac data. Mortgage rates are determined by a variety of different factors, including larger economic trends, Federal Reserve policy, your state's current mortgage rates, the type of loan you're getting, and your personal financial profile.

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Defense attorneys noted that King spent 63 days in North Korea in addition to his time served in the U.S.Pvt. King, a private second class, ran across the DMZ separating South Korea and communist North Korea on July 18, 2023. He was on a tour group in the Panmunjom, South Korea, when he crossed the fortified zone and entered North Korea where he was detained. The incident occurred five decades after another U.S. soldier, James Dresnok, defected to North Korea in 1962 as he was being threatened with a court-martial. Dresnok, according to his sons, was in North Korea when he died of a stroke in 2016.

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☆ California firefighter accused of setting fires in wine country
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A California firefighter was arrested on suspicion of arson in a series of small fires that burned in wine country in recent weeks, officials said Friday. Robert Hernandez, 38, was accused of setting five fires between Aug. 15 and Sept. 14 while off-duty, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said in a news release. Hernadez, a Cal Fire apparatus engineer, allegedly ignited the blazes around Geyserville, Healdsburg and Windsor, the department said. More than 4 million acres burned across the state in 2020, setting a record for the largest number of acres burned in California in modern times, the department said. So far this year, nearly one million acres have burned, including fast-moving blazes in Southern California that threatened tens of thousands of homes and prompted thousands of evacuations in the foothills of San Bernardino County.

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☆ Here are Cases of Trump Rivals Who Were Subject to Investigation
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Michael S. Schmidt | Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +20 min

After Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey, Mr. McCabe opened a two-pronged investigation into whether Mr. Trump was a counterintelligence threat and was obstructing justice. Mr. Trump said he wanted to “get the I.R.S.” on Mr. McCabe and for him to be fired. Working with Mr. McCabe, Mr. Strzok opened the two-pronged investigation into whether Mr. Trump was a counterintelligence threat and was obstructing justice. What Trump wanted doneMr. Trump called Mr. Strzok a traitor and said he should be criminally investigated for his handling of the Russia investigation. What news organizations did that Trump did not likeJournalists from all three organizations covered the Trump presidency and the Russia investigation aggressively and used material that Mr. Trump felt had been leaked to hurt him.

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☆ U.S. to propose barring Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles: Reuters
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The U.S. Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles on U.S. roads due to national security concerns, sources told Reuters. The Biden administration has raised serious concerns about the collection of data by Chinese companies on U.S. drivers and infrastructure as well as the potential foreign manipulation of connected vehicles. The proposed regulation would ban the import and sale of vehicles from China with key communications or automated driving system software or hardware. The department plans to give the public 30 days to comment before any finalization of the rules, the sources said, adding that the department plans to propose making the prohibitions on software effective in the 2027 model year and the prohibitions on hardware would take effect in January 2029. The Commerce Department declined to comment on Saturday.

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☆ As threats grow, funds for election security see a squeeze
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Bob Ortega | Anna-Maja Rappard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

That’s why Maricopa County has spent over $864,000 in federal funds and more than $3 million in county funds to bolster its election security and processes over the past four years. Officials readily shared their worries with CNN, citing death threats, harassment, baseless lawsuits, onerous public-records requests and various security threats spurred by false claims about voter fraud. Amid these challenges, budgets for election security have been squeezed in several ways. Thousands of election workers across the country have reported receiving harassing, offensive or hostile communications, including since the 2022 midterms, according to the Department of Justice’s Election Threats Task Force. As recently as Tuesday, Trump threatened to prosecute and imprison election officials if he wins in November, as he cast doubt on the integrity of the upcoming election.

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☆ Every Falsehood, Exaggeration and Untruth in Trump’s and Harris’s Stump Speeches
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Linda Qiu | Elena Shao | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +54 min

They’re going to take away your guns, you saw that, they’re going to take away your guns. And at the end it was, “Thank you, thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank, thank.” I said, “What the hell’s… What’s wrong with her?” I say, “Thank you.” And you wait a couple of seconds. “Thank you, thank, thank, thank, thank.” There’s something wrong with her, okay? She was all talk, I’m going to do this and I’m going to do that, and then I’m going to cut tax and then I’m going to give you 25,000 per house and then I’m going to go, over and over. When Biden was president — going to give up the whole thing to Russia, it looks like.

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☆ Kaspar Hauser: New DNA analysis upends ‘lost prince’ theory
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-21 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But these results were soon contradicted by tests a few years later that sampled Hauser’s hair. However, some researchers who supported the “lost prince” hypothesis claimed that the blood may not have belonged to Hauser, Parson told CNN. Those results showed that Hauser’s mtDNA was a close match to that of the Badens, contradicting the findings from Munich. A royal hoax debunkedParson’s lab conducted new analysis of Hauser’s hair, using strands collected before and after his death. The new findings about Hauser not only debunk the prince theory; they also demonstrate the importance of pushing the limits of technologies for DNA analysis, Parson said.

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Victims' families and a survivor of a Maryland bridge collapse that killed six people filed claims Friday for wrongful death and punitive damages against the owner and the operator of the massive cargo ship that crashed into the bridge earlier this year. The 100,000-plus-ton ship Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early hours of March 26 as a work crew was fixing potholes. Six construction workers died when the bridge went crumbling down into the Patapsco River. The nearly two dozen crew members on the ship survived, along with two pilots who were helping the vessel navigate the harbor. Days after the bridge collapse, the ship’s Singapore-based owner and manager petitioned a Maryland court to limit their monetary liability to $43.67 million, the value of the ship and its cargo, based on a pre-Civil War provision of maritime law.

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☆ Local police responsible for roof where Trump shooter hid at Butler rally had never spoken to Secret Service, report says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Julia Ainsley | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The local police team responsible for the roof a shooter used to fire at ex-President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, had never spoken to the Secret Service prior to the attempted assassination, a report released by the Secret Service on Friday says. Among other errors, the report found that one local police entity working security at the Trump rally requested support from another local department without the Secret Service being aware. While investigating the incident, the Secret Service placed some officials, including the director of the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh Field Office, on leave. “The former president is getting everything that the current president has with respect to Secret Service assets,” Rowe said. Rowe also told reporters at a news conference Friday that the Secret Service did not deny security assets to the Trump campaign ahead of the July rally in Butler.

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☆ Here’s what it could mean if Trump shut down the US Department of Education
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Katie Lobosco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,” he said earlier this month during a rally in Wisconsin. Previously, federal education programs were housed in other agencies. Ending the department may not eliminate federal education fundingFederal funding programs for K-12 schools that help support the education of students from low-income families and children with disabilities predated the creation of the Department of Education. Calls to abolish the Department of Education or merge it with another federal agency are not new. When Trump was president, his administration proposed merging the Education and Labor departments into one federal agency.

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☆ Jamie Dimon is the latest CEO to weigh in on RTO — this time, for DC federal workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFederal workers in Washington, DC, still have flexibility about where they work, and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon isn't impressed. In the middle of an answer, Dimon added: "By the way, I'd also make Washington, DC, go back to work. Last year, the Biden Administration pushed for federal employees to return to in-person office work. Many federal workers have indeed returned to the office for at least part of the week. He also said, however, that employees who don't like their RTO policy can find jobs elsewhere, according to The Economist.

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☆ Attempts to purge voter rolls increase as election nears
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

As of Tuesday, at least three dozen cases related to voter rolls and their maintenance are pending in 19 states, according to the liberal-leaning Democracy Docket, which tracks election litigation. The right-wing effort to purge voter rolls has largely centered around claims that noncitizens are casting illegal votes in favor of Democrats. “There’s always been some litigation about voter rolls and list maintenance. Reviewing voter rolls is a regular practice for states, and despite the 90-day quiet period, the NVRA does allow individuals to ask to be taken off lists close to an election. The federal law exempts some states if they allow voter registration on Election Day at polling centers where federal elections are conducted.

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Now that the Fed has cut rates, mortgage rates may not drop much further in the near term. But if the Fed doesn't lower rates as much as expected this year, mortgage rates may hold steady or even inch up. But rates are still expected to come down further, so it may also be worth waiting to see how low mortgage rates go. 5-Year Mortgage Rate TrendsHere's how 30-year and 15-year mortgage rates have trended over the last five years, according to Freddie Mac data. Mortgage rates are determined by a variety of different factors, including larger economic trends, Federal Reserve policy, your state's current mortgage rates, the type of loan you're getting, and your personal financial profile.

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☆ Former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed a ‘monster,’ say lawyers representing his alleged victims
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Caitlin Danaher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The legal team representing the alleged victims of the former owner of Harrods, Mohamed Al Fayed, say the late billionaire was a “monster” whose crimes were “enabled” by the high-end department store. Armstrong said Al-Fayad was a “monster” who committed a “vast web of abuse.”Setting out the legal claim being brought against Harrods, Armstrong said Al-Fayad was “enabled by a system” that pervaded the store. “This is and was a systematic failure of corporate responsibility, and that systematic failure is on the shoulders of Harrods,” Armstrong said. The legal team involved in the BBC investigation claimed Harrods knew of Al Fayed’s alleged crimes. Al Fayed’s son, Dodi Fayed, died in 1997 along with Princess Diana in a high-speed car crash in Paris.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Battleground state election officials from both parties are pushing back against a falsehood that has proven pervasive ahead of the 2024 reaction: that noncitizens are voting in widespread numbers. The comments came as former President Donald Trump and his GOP allies have talked up efforts to crack down on noncitizens voting, which is already illegal. Maricopa County has sued seeking clarity on whether those voters can vote in state and local elections this fall. Republicans at the national and state level have fueled unfounded noncitizen voting claims in the run-up to this year's presidential election. Election officials said Thursday they were taking steps to debunk conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 election.

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Business Insider's personal finance team compared Navy Federal Credit Union personal loans to the best personal loan companies and found it to a standard offering. Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) is a credit union that serves the military community and their families. Navy Federal Personal Loan Credit RequirementsNavy Federal doesn't make its minimum credit score to be eligible for a personal loan public — though in general, a higher credit score will secure you a lower rate. Navy Federal Personal Loan AlternativesNavy Federal Personal Loans vs. PenFed Personal LoansWith a range of 8.99% to 18.00%, offers a minimum loan amount than what you can get with PenFed, which as a range of 8.99% to 17.99%. Navy Federal Personal Loan FAQsWhat credit score do I need for an NFCU personal loan?

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☆ Harrods ‘utterly appalled’ by allegations that former owner Mohamed Al Fayed raped staff
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —The high-end London department store, Harrods, said Thursday that it is “utterly appalled” by allegations of abuse – including rape – perpetrated by its former owner, the late billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed. More than 20 female ex-Harrods employees have accused Al Fayed, who died last year at age 94, of sexually assaulting them, according to an in-depth BBC investigation. One said she was assaulted when she was 15 and Al Fayed was 79. Stefan Kiefer/imageBROKER/ShutterstockIn 2008, Al Fayed denied allegations of sexual assault on a girl under the age of 16. This process is still available for any current or former Harrods employees.”

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☆ Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ may align with a scientific theory
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889. Now, a new analysis by physicists based in China and France suggests the artist had a deep, intuitive understanding of the mathematical structure of turbulent flow. Batchelor’s scaling mathematically represents how small particles, such as drifting algae in the ocean or pieces of dust in the wind, are passively mixed around by turbulent flow. “I think this physical relationship must be embedded in his mind so that’s why when he made this famous ‘Starry Night’ painting, it mimics the real flow,” Huang said. “What I take away from studies like this is that (van Gogh) captured some of this universality in the beautiful (‘Starry Night’),” Beattie added.

Persons: Vincent van Gogh’s, ”, Yongxiang Huang, Van Gogh, mutilating, van Gogh's, Huang, Andrey Kolmogorov, John Constable, De Agostini, James Beattie, Beattie wasn’t, van Gogh, ” Huang, Beattie, “, Van Gogh’s, Yinxiang, Gogh, ” Beattie Organizations: CNN, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science & College of Ocean, Sciences, Xiamen University, Princeton University, NASA's, NASA Goddard Space, NASA’s, Museum of Modern Art Locations: China, France, Saint, Provence, Soviet, Brighton, British, New Jersey, New York

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