Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 […]

The Federal Election Commission has fined the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for lying about the funding of the infamous, and discredited, Russian “dossier” used in a smear attempt against Donald Trump weeks before he shocked the world with his 2016 presidential victory. The election agency said […]

A nationwide lockdown of the federal prison system remained in effect Tuesday after two inmates were killed Monday during a gang fight at a penitentiary in Texas, officials said. Multiple inmates were involved in an altercation at U.S. Penitentiary Beaumont in Texas about 11:30 a.m., according to the Bureau of […]

MINNEAPOLIS — An Upper Peninsula skater is among the 22 women’s hockey players to join Hilary Knight after she was selected for her record-tying fourth Olympics at Beijing in February. Knight and Sault Ste. Marie’s Abby Roque were chosen by USA Hockey as the U.S. women seek to defend their […]

Beloved actress, comedian and American icon Betty White has died, just weeks before a milestone birthday. Betty passed away at her home just before 9:30 AM Friday. A trailblazer and pioneer in media, Betty had the longest running career for any woman in TV prior to her death — starring in multiple […]

CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. New cases per day have […]

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after testifying he acted in self-defence in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S. Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up, fell forward toward the defense table and then hugged […]

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse provoked bloodshed on the streets of Kenosha by bringing a semi-automatic rifle to a protest and menacing others, and when the shooting stopped, he walked off like a “hero in a Western,” a prosecutor said in closing arguments Monday at Rittenhouse’s murder trial. But […]

A 39-year-old man has been arrested and faces arson charges after reportedly setting his mother’s house on fire while trying to get rid of cobwebs with a blowtorch. Jon Charles Streckenbach has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson, criminal mischief causing $20,000 to $100,000 in damages, possession of a controlled […]