#Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by #China == Microsoft announced that Chinese state-sponsored hackers had exploited vulnerabilities in its popular #SharePoint software but didn’t mention that it has long used China-based engineers to maintain the product. #News #Tech #Cybersecurity #Government #Safety #privacy
Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools. — Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than two-thirds of that. #News #Alaska #School #Education #Student #Budget
The DOJ has halted lawsuits accusing Louisiana of keeping prisoners locked up long after they were meant to be released and South Carolina of institutionalizing thousands of mentally ill people — sometimes for decades — in violation of federal law. #Law #DOJ #CivilRights #Prison #Louisiana #SouthCarolina #MentalIllness #News
Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: #Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests == We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before #Trump took office. #ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. #News #Government #HumanRights #Police #Courts #Politics
#Idaho Schools Consistently Break Disability Laws. Parents Say They’re Not Doing Enough to Fix the Problem. == Idaho #students with disabilities have worse outcomes than many of their peers in other states, according to federal data. #Parents say it can take months to evaluate students, and in some cases #schools have refused to provide needed services. #News #Government #Education #Kids
Los hombres venezolanos deportados por la administración Trump afirman que sufrieron meses de abusos físicos y psicológicos en la prisión salvadoreña. Aunque están felices de estar de vuelta en casa, dicen que el hecho de que los liberaran es una prueba de lo absurdo de sus detenciones.
Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in #CECOT == We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT in #ElSalvador by the #Trump administration. Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment. #News #HumanRights #Prison #Immigration #Government
After being released from Salvadoran prison CECOT, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra says he was relieved to be home with his family but felt traumatized. “There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.” #News #Immigration #Venezuela #ElSalvador #Immigrants #Deportation #ICE
A Las Vegas Festival Promised Ways to Cheat Death. Two Attendees Left Fighting for Their Lives. — Authorities are investigating why two women fell ill at the Revolution Against Aging and Death Festival. They both received peptide injections, an alternative therapy promoted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a way to fight aging and chronic disease. #News #LasVegas #RFKJr #Health #Aging #Medicine #Nevada
Appeals Court Overturns Murder and Kidnapping Conviction in Etan Patz Disappearance — The judges’ decision echoed ProPublica’s reporting from 2013 that raised questions about the veracity and legality of suspect Pedro Hernandez’s confessions in one of the most famous missing child cases in U.S. history. #News #Crime #TrueCrime #Law #Police