Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] U.S. Attorney General William Barr took aim at Hollywood companies, including Walt Disney Co. <DIS.N> on Thursday, saying they have routinely caved into pressure and censored their films “to appease the Chinese Communist Party.” “I suspect Walt Disney would be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital currency. Twitter said employees with access to its internal […]
Madeline Sponlser, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A New York prosecutor on Thursday warned against allowing U.S. President Donald Trump to run out the clock on the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal probe into Trump. Carey Dunne, general counsel for District Attorney Cyrus Vance, spoke at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan to discuss Trump‘s renewed […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Republicans will significantly limit the number of attendees at the party’s August convention nominating President Donald Trump for a second White House term in Jacksonville, Florida, as coronavirus cases continue to spike sharply across the state. The shift to a smaller gathering is the latest in a series of […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced legislation on Thursday that would cut federal aid to state and local governments if they do not protect statues after protesters attacked monuments to people who owned slaves or fought for the Confederacy. “It is wrong to erase our […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Stargazers in various places all over the world have been looking to the skies in order to secure their glimpse of Comet Neowise. This time-lapse footage was captured at a rural spot near Harrogate, in the UK. Comet Neowise was visible with the naked eye, from Almscliff Crag and can […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s security and resilience in the run-up to the U.S. presidential election. Twitter said late Wednesday hackers obtained control of employee credentials to […]
Madeline Sponsler, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] A top White House advisor said on Thursday that he expects TikTok to separate organizationally from its Chinese owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co, amid growing U.S. concerns about the security of the data handled by the short video app. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters such a […]
In southeast Utah, nerves are frayed over a pile of radioactive material parked 5,000 miles (8,000 km) away in Estonia. Regulators are weighing whether a local uranium company can import the material for processing at a mill near the border of a Native American reservation. Utah officials have no deadline for making their decision on […]
