A major NHS IT provider faces a penalty of just over £6m for failures which led to a cyber attack and the theft of nearly 83,000 medical records. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has been investigating Advanced, which supplies vital systems for the health service, since the breach on 4 August 2022. The cyber attack had wide-ranging implications, affecting the ...
Elon Musk’s X has launched legal action against a string of companies after they stopped advertising on the social network. The tech giant, formerly known as Twitter, alleges the firms unlawfully conspired to boycott the site and caused it to lose “billions of dollars” in revenue. The lawsuit was filed in Texas against the World Federation of Advertisers and member ...
Welcome to The Campaign Moment, your guide to the biggest developments in the 2024 election — now with more “you betcha,” “uff da,” hot dish and walleye. (Make sure you are subscribed to this newsletter here. You can also hear my analysis weekly on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.) The big moment The two-week sprint to ...
A month ago, the 2024 presidential election was slated to feature the two oldest candidates in American history. President Biden, 81, was seeking to defend his position in the face of a challenge from former president Donald Trump, 78. Despite the relatively narrow difference in their ages, polling showed that the issue posed more of a challenge for the incumbent ...
Voters in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District will head to the polls Tuesday as Rep. Cori Bush fights to hold on to her seat in the Democratic primary against St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, who is backed by a powerful pro-Israel lobbying group. The race between two liberal Black candidates in this district gets to the heart of a fissure ...
Milwaukee County prosecutors charged four people with murder Tuesday after they beat and restrained a man outside a hotel in June. D’Vontaye Mitchell, 43, died June 30 after four Hyatt Regency Milwaukee employees dragged him from the hotel and pinned him face down to the concrete. His family members have said they believe he was having a mental health episode. ...
Vice President Harris on Sunday took the final step of her running-mate selection process, interviewing the three men who had survived her team’s vetting process — Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona. But by then, the selection was in fact largely down to two. Walz and Shapiro had risen to ...
A Virginia man was arrested Monday and charged with making threats against Vice President Harris, the Justice Department announced in a news release. Frank Carillo, 66, of Winchester, Va., wrote thousands of posts and replies over the past year on the conservative social media platform Gettr, targeting several public officials such as Harris, President Biden and FBI Director Christopher A. ...
When Vice President Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, added Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to her ticket on Tuesday, she touted him as a coach and educator. Walz, in accepting the role, likened his excitement to “the first day of school.” The message was clear: This man is a teacher. Almost three decades ago, however, Walz nearly gave up the career ...
When Joe Biden’s presidency began in 2021, Afghan official Nader Nadery knew that the new commander in chief was determined to pull U.S. troops from his country. But Nadery, like other Afghans who feared the return of a repressive Taliban regime that had been overthrown in 2001, hoped he had an ally who could convince Biden to leave some forces ...