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New York—The chief executive of the sexual harassment victims’ advocacy group Time’s Up resigned Thursday amid outrage over revelations that its leaders advised former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration after he was first accused of misconduct last year. Time’s Up CEO and president Tina Tchen said in a statement that she‘s “spent a career fighting for positive change for women” but was no longer the right person to lead the #MeToo-era organization.(Snip)Text messages obtained by The Washington Post show that Tchen initially discouraged other Time’s Up leaders from making any public comment about Boylan’s allegations. Later, top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa asked Kaplan—her attorney
Guardian [U.K.],
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Eva Corlett
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A one-person anti-lockdown protest in central Auckland has been shut down, after the police were alerted to discussions of a potential gathering on social media. New Zealand police said officers were on Queen Street on Friday after hearing a protest was being planned, but only one person arrived with the intention of protesting, Newshub reported. “Police have been in the area and have spoken to one person who arrived intending to attend the protest. Police spoke to the individual who was encouraged to comply with alert level four restrictions and chose to leave,” a spokesman said. They said they are continuing to monitor the situation.
Reuters & Daily Mail [UK],
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Ronny Reyes
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Microsoft has warned thousands of its online cloud customers—including Fortune 500 firms like Coca-Cola, Exxon-Mobil, and Citrix—that their data may have been exposed to intruders. The company revealed a major flaw in its flagship Azure Cosmos DB database service on Thursday, which could allow hackers to read, change or delete data saved in the cloud, according to an internal email and a cyber security researcher.(Snip)'This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine. It is a long-lasting secret,' Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak told Reuters. 'This is the central database of Azure, and we were able to get access to any customer database
Daily Mail (UK) & Reuters,
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Adam Schrader
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Leon Panetta said on Thursday that the Unites States military will have to return to Afghanistan to tackle terror threats posed by Taliban and ISIS-K after a suicide attack killed 13 U.S. troops and at least 90 Afghans.
Paneta, a Democrat who served as Defense Secretary in the Obama administration, said in an interview with Erin Burnett for her CNN show OutFront that the withdrawal of American troops left the United States in a 'very dangerous and difficult situation.'(Snip)'The bottom line is, our work is not done. We're going to have to go after ISIS. I'm glad the president said we're going to hunt them down
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mary Kekatos
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Natural immunity from previous COVID-19 infection may offer stronger protection against the Indian 'Delta' variant than immunity from full vaccination, a new study suggests. Researchers compared people who had received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to unvaccinated individuals who had recovered from the virus. They found that participants with natural immunity were up to 13 times less likely to contract Covid than those who were given two jabs.(Snip)Overall participants who were double jabbed were 5.96 times more likely to be infected and 7.13 times more likely to experience symptoms including cough, fever and shortness of breath.
New York Post,
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Bruce Golding
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A potentially deadly blunder by President Joe Biden’s administration effectively handed the Taliban a “kill list” to target Afghans who aided the US, according to a report Thursday—and admitted it may have happened when asked later at a White House briefing. Following the Taliban takeover of Kabul, US officials there gave the Islamic extremist group the names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies so they could be allowed to enter the Taliban-controlled perimeter around the Hamid Karzai International Airport, according to Politico.(Snip) “Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” a US defense official told Politico. “It’s just appalling and shocking
New York Post,
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Joe Marino *
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A plucky 28-year-old woman fended off an unhinged attacker with a broom and “Wet Floor” sign at a Brooklyn subway station—before video caught him shoving her onto the tracks, she told The Post on Thursday. The harrowing encounter unfolded Wednesday on the northbound 3 and 4 platform at the Utica Avenue-Eastern Parkway station, where the crazed man, later identified as 24-year-old John Merritt, began following the victim, police said. “He was acting erratic and he started to spit at me, is how it started,” said the woman, who asked not to be identified. “When I tried to leave the situation,
New York Post,
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Steven Nelson
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Washington—President Biden’s German shepherd Major attacked many more people than the White House has disclosed, according to newly released emails.
The documents indicate that Major bit members of the Secret Service eight days in a row in early March—though only one such incident was publicly acknowledged. At least one White House visitor also was bitten in early March, according to the emails, which were released Thursday by the conservative transparency group Judicial Watch, which slammed the “cover-up” of the incidents.(Snip)A Secret Service employee whose name was redacted emailed three colleagues on March 8: “At the current rate an Agent or Officer has been bitten every day
Daily Mail (UK),
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Stephen M. Lepore
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Harvard University has chosen a devout atheist and 'humanist chaplain' to lead the Ivy League school founded by Puritans to educate their clergy with the motto 'Truth for Christ and the Church.' Greg Epstein, 44, who was raised in a reformed Jewish household in Queens, New York, was named president of the chaplains for the religious community at the school after serving as Harvard's 'humanist chaplain' since 2005. He is a self-avowed devout atheist who wants to serve fellow nonreligious believers as well as agnostics and humanists at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, school. That's a far departure for a school founded by Puritans in 1636 and named for pastor
New York Post,
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Hannah Sparks
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Women of France are slipping into something a little less comfortable on the country’s famed nude beaches. Just 19% of breasted sunbathers in the country now say they feel comfortable removing their tops at the beach. Compare that with 2009, when 34% said they do, or in 1984 with 40%. Around half of the respondents cited concerns that perverts would attack, harass or otherwise violate them while topless, reported Le Parisien.(Snip) For 48% of French ladies, physical safety was the primary concern; 46% also said they feared photos of their bare chests might end up on social media.
Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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The Department of Homeland Security approved thousands of noncitizens to work in the U.S. even though its own system tried to flag them as probably ineligible, according to a new inspector general report that paints a grim picture of the government’s best tool for weeding out undocumented immigrant workers. The E-Verify system also confirmed work authorization for about 280,000 noncitizens in 2019 without actually matching them to photos online, opening an avenue for fraud that undocumented immigrants could exploit to take jobs, the Homeland Security inspector general said.(Snip)“Until USCIS addresses E-Verify’s deficiencies, it cannot ensure the system provides accurate employment eligibility results,” the inspector general said
New York Post,
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Emily Crane
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At least 10 US service members have been killed and another three injured in two suicide bombing attacks outside Kabul airport Thursday, according to US officials. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby confirmed earlier that US troops had been killed but did not disclose the number. “A number of US service members were killed in today’s complex attack at Kabul airport. A number of others are being treated for wounds. We also know that a number of Afghans fell victim to this heinous attack,” he said. Initial estimates vary, but an Afghan health official told the New York Times that at least 40 people had been killed and 120 injured.
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