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The FBI infiltrated and disrupted a major cybercriminal group extorting money from schools, hospitals and critical infrastructure around the world, federal officials said Thursday.The group, Hive, is one of the most prolific hacker gangs in the world, having received around $100 million in extortion payments, according to a november warning from the FBI, Health and Human Services, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. As of Thursday morning, his dark web website displayed a message saying that he had been seized by an international coalition of law enforcement, including the FBI and the Department of Justice.The FBI said it gained…

A curious bear has become the surprise star of wildlife cameras set up in Boulder, Colorado, taking hundreds of "selfies" in an apparent impromptu photo op, local officials said. The city's Open Space and Mountain Parks team set out to track animals living in the area using motion capture cameras, but were shocked to discover that of the 580 images captured by one camera, around 400 were of the same bear. . Service face.Boulder Mountain Parks and Open SpacesWhile the cameras often capture animals, including coyotes, beavers and black bears in the wild, officials said most creatures don't normally notice…

The Newport News School Board voted Wednesday to replace its embattled superintendent amid the ongoing fallout from a 6-year-old boy who shot his first-grade teacher earlier this month.The board voted 5-1 to remove George Parker III as head of the district of some 26,500 students. Their separation is effective February 1, School Board President Lisa Surles-Law said.Parker was being removed "without cause," Surles-Law said, adding that he was a "capable" leader whose removal was based on the "future trajectory and needs of our school division." Michele Mitchell, executive director of student development for Newport News Public Schools, was named interim…

SEOUL, South Korea – Authorities in the North Korean capital Pyongyang have ordered a five-day lockdown due to rising cases of an unspecified respiratory illness, the Russian Embassy and Seoul-based NK News reported on Wednesday. Seoul, citing a government notice.The notice, shared by the embassy on its Facebook page, said that "a special anti-epidemic period has been established" and called on foreign delegations to keep employees inside. The order also called for people to take their temperatures four times a day and report the results to a hospital by phone.The notice did not mention covid-19, though it did cite an…

Autism rates tripled among children in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area between 2000 and 2016, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Pediatrics.The authors, a team at Rutgers University, calculated the trend by looking at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates of the number of children who have been identified with an autism spectrum disorder by age 8.Although there is no medical test for autism, the CDC has established a network of 17 sites across the country that estimate autism rates based on a combination of formal medical diagnoses and records from schools and…

HONG KONG — China's critically ill Covid-19 cases are down 72% from a peak earlier this month, while daily deaths among Covid-19 patients in hospitals are down 79% since their start. peak, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. .The figures, posted on the center's website, come after a leading government scientist said over the weekend that 80% of China's 1.4 billion people had already been infected, making the possibility of a virus remote. a big spike in COVID-19 in the next two to three months. .China abruptly ended its strict zero-Covid policy in early December…

In 2016, New Hampshire Republicans uprooted Donald Trump's candidacy after he lost Iowa, becoming the first state to embrace the future president.Trump returns Saturday for the first campaign trip of his 2024 career, but this time he faces more difficult Republican terrain. It's a party chafed by devastating midterm losses in November, when Trump-backed candidates lost both congressional races and a Senate race in the state. It's packed with people eager to hear from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis about his possible candidacy. And it's a party that has grown fatigued from the drip, drip, drip investigations going after Trump. We…

Five police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, who were charged with violating department policies in a traffic stop that led to the death of Tire Nichols were "directly responsible" for his "physical abuse," the police chief of the city ​​on Wednesday night.In a video statementMemphis Police Chief CJ Davis said other officers remained under investigation in connection with alleged policy violations during the Jan. 7 stop.“Some violations are less serious than others,” he said. The five officers fired last week "were directly responsible for the physical abuse of Mr. Nichols," Davis said. Davis called the incident "egregious, reckless and inhumane," conduct…

southwest airlines reported $220 million The fourth-quarter loss after the airline's holiday crash pushed up expenses and cost it millions in revenue during what was expected to be the busiest travel period since the pandemic began.It forecast a first-quarter loss, citing current "revenue and cost trends," while analysts have anticipated a 19-cent earnings per share for the current quarter, according to estimates compiled by Refinitiv.Earlier this month, Southwest said it canceled about 16,700 flights between December 21 and 31 after severe winter weather hit the US.The airline said on Thursday that the mass cancellations hit its pre-tax results by $800…