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Man who stole, laundered $1B in bitcoin gets 5 years in prison

WASHINGTON (AP) — A computer analyst who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — was sentenced last week to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest thefts from a virtual currency exchange [...]

By |2024-11-20T12:46:13-05:00Tuesday, November 19, 2024|

County Municipal Court now offers private carrier service for civil cases

Franklin County Municipal Court Clerk Lori Tyack said she is optimistic about the court’s decision to offer FedEx commercial-carrier service for civil cases filed in the local court. The “additional tool,” as she calls it, already has resulted in service being perfected at a far greater rate than service by certified mail in recent years. [...]

By |2024-11-19T15:26:38-05:00Monday, November 18, 2024|

Food and Drug Administration to implement new rules for TV drug commercials

WASHINGTON (AP) — Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require drugmakers to be more clear and more direct when explaining their medications’ risks and side effects. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration spent more than 15 years [...]

By |2024-11-19T15:26:48-05:00Monday, November 18, 2024|

FBI: Investigation into Chinese hacking shows ‘broad and significant’ spying effort

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into United States telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics, the FBI said last week. Hackers affiliated with Beijing have compromised the networks of “multiple” telecommunications companies to [...]

By |2024-11-19T15:26:55-05:00Monday, November 18, 2024|

Department of Justice sues to stop UnitedHealth Group’s $3.3B purchase of Amedisys

NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department is suing to block UnitedHealth Group’s $3.3 billion purchase of Amedisys, citing concerns the combination would hinder access to home health and hospice services. The antitrust complaint, filed in Maryland by the Justice Department and four states’ attorneys general earlier this week, argues that a potential merger is [...]

By |2024-11-18T12:49:48-05:00Friday, November 15, 2024|

Federal agency asks Tesla to clarify automaker’s self-driving statements

DETROIT (AP) — The federal government’s highway safety agency says Tesla is telling drivers in public statements that its vehicles can drive themselves, conflicting with owners manuals and briefings with the agency saying the electric vehicles need human supervision. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking the company to “revisit its communications” to make [...]

By |2024-11-15T11:22:33-05:00Thursday, November 14, 2024|

Regulators investigating engines on 1.4M Hondas

DETROIT (AP) — The federal government’s highway safety agency is investigating complaints that engines can fail on as many as 1.4 million Honda and Acura vehicles. The probe by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration covers the 2016 through 2020 Honda Pilot and Acura MDX, as well as the 2018 through 2020 Honda Odyssey and [...]

By |2024-11-15T11:23:04-05:00Thursday, November 14, 2024|

Man gets prison for accessing late justice’s medical records

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former health-care worker who illegally accessed the medical records of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she died was sentenced last week to two years in prison. Trent Russell, 34, of Bellevue, Neb., who at the time worked as a transplant coordinator for the Washington Regional Transplant Community and [...]

By |2024-11-15T11:24:28-05:00Wednesday, November 13, 2024|
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