PHOENIX (AP) — A former Arizona politician who acknowledged running an illegal adoption scheme in three states that involved birth mothers from the Marshall Islands has asked an appeals court to throw out his six-year prison sentence, arguing a judge double-counted factors in the case that increased the severity of his punishment, such as concluding…...
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As most of my readers know, I was a card-carrying conservative for many years. I was working in the Reagan White House when Rush Limbaugh went on the air in 1988 and remember having to go out and buy a desk radio so I could listen to him, which I did almost every day. Even…...
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Massachusetts’s road to failure runs straight through the digital waiting room of the Democratic State Committee’s video calls. During long, slur- and expletive-filled gatherings, a vanguard of wizened Harvard alumni and outer-ring suburbanites screech over one another in a dread contest for Zoom-mic supremacy, hurling insults at the young, progressive, and racially diverse members bold…...
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Former UFC bantamweight Bryan Caraway has been charged with multiple felonies following an alleged insurance scam involving a vehicle belonging to former girlfriend and ex-UFC champion Miesha Tate. It is alleged Caraway, 36, purchased an insurance policy for a vehicle owned by Tate and claimed it was his. Then, three days later, he allegedly filed…...
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The owners of a popular barcode scanner application that became a malicious nuisance on millions of devices with one update insist that a third-party buyer was to blame. Earlier this month, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes explored how a trusted, useful barcode and QR code scanner app on Google Play that accounted for over 10 million installs…...
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Scamper Shores is the first full level you’ll encounter in Bowser’s Fury, and like every other level in Nintendo’s spin-off game, it holds five cat shines. You won’t have access to them all right away, though, and some of the collectibles are tough to find. To get your Bowser’s Fury journey started right, here’s where to find every…...
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You know not to click on links in sketchy emails. Everybody does by now. And yet, people fall for phishing attacks all the time. And that's the whole point. If phishing didn't work, attackers would have abandoned it a long time ago. Instead it's everywhere. Coronavirus-related phishing scams cropped up quickly worldwide in January 2020…...
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Feb 16, 2021 – 4.34pmCyber experts and authorities are warning of an inundation of vaccine scams, as Australia prepares to distribute COVID-19 vaccines from February 22.The roll-out of the vaccine in the US and Britain has inspired many vaccine-related scams, with a 300 per cent jump in vaccine-related website domains in the lead-up to the…...
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LoadingWhile the decision is a win for the family, it does not force the government to grant her a visa or let them return to their regional Queensland home in Biloela. It merely means the minister needs to properly decide whether to allow her to apply for a visa.Justice Moshinsky delivered his judgment on the…...
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Stranger than fictionErnst August of Hanover has launched legal bid to regain control of ancestral seat from stateThe head of one of Germany’s most illustrious family dynasties has launched a legal bid to reclaim a German castle that his “ungrateful” son wants to hand over to the government.The Welfs were “once among the foremost medieval dynasties in…...
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