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He was referring to a former Democratic Arizona congresswoman who was shot outside a grocery store during a constituent gathering in 2011. Giffords' husband, retired Nasa astronaut Mark Kelly, said in a statement that Norman was "no Gabby Giffords" and noted that his wife has dedicated her life to ...
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Photos showed Murtaja lying wounded on a stretcher wearing a navy-blue protective vest marked 'PRESS' in large black capital letters. Health officials said a live bullet had penetrated the side of his abdomen and he succumbed to his wounds in hospital. A statement from the Israeli military said: "The ...
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It was a late Thursday in January when hospital administrator Steve Long was notified that his computer systems had just been hijacked by an unidentified criminal group. The hackers gave Long seven days to pay a ransom — or else. It was at the height of flu season, and a winter snowstorm was ...
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Molly Ringwald, who starred in The Breakfast Club, has admitted she now finds the cult 1980s film "troubling". Writing in the New Yorker, the actor who was 16 when she starred in the high school drama in 1985, describes rewatching the film with her daughter and reflecting on some of the scenes in the ...
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Scott Pruitt is not like past administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, just as Donald Trump is not like past presidents. In both cases, it's not that they're conservatives. Conservatives have held those positions before. It's that they seem to be engaged in something different than their ...
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Heap overflow in the necp_client_action syscall
Looking through the necp_client_action function in bsd/net/necp_client.c, we can see that it is merely a wrapper for several different actions. The vulnerable case occurs when the action parameter to necp_client_action is set to NECP_CLIENT_UPDATE_CACHE. necp_client_action then calls the ...
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Daniel Ek, who founded Spotify in 2006 with fellow Swede Martin Lorentzon, sidestepped the fanfare that usually accompanies a big tech IPO. He did only one interview on Tuesday — a five-minute segment with television network CBS, which he viewed as a more "consumer focused" platform than the ...
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An Indian court has granted bail to Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, two days after he was jailed for poaching rare antelope back in 1998. The defence had questioned the testing of the animals and the reliability of witnesses, NDTV reported. On Thursday, Khan had been convicted in Jodhpur, ...
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Raise a fist and shed a tear with this remarkable story of a radical Aids-awareness group in 1990s Paris. Shock tactics and lively debates are captured in documentary style, but it's the relationships that gradually come to dominate, particularly a new gay couple for whom the ticking clock of untreatable ...
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There is work to do for Mercedes overnight, after they lagged behind their Scuderia rivals in FP2 by half a second. Hamilton's flying lap was compromised by running slightly older tyres, but nonetheless, he won't be entirely happy with how Friday has gone after a series of scruffy laps included a big ...
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When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they were to marry in Windsor, many of the town's residents were celebrating along with the happy couple. By renting out their homes and parking spaces to tourists, now some locals are hoping to cash in and even fund their own major life events.
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The decline of nuclear power after the Fukushima meltdowns meant that imported fossil fuels provided 94 percent of Japan's primary energy in 2015. Unsurprising, then, that incremental advances in combustion technology are deemed conference-worthy, even as renewables slowly take over the energy ...
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Somerset gained the upper hand as Byrom and Lewis Gregory (56 no) set up a big first-innings total. McCarthy took 3-66 while there was a wicket apiece for Peter Chase (1-53) and Boyd Rankin (1-57). The game is being used by Ireland as preparation for their first men's Test match in May against ...
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The approximately 50 newfound geoglyphs (Greek for "Earth carvings") give more evidence that the giant designs have a long history in the region and weren't just the brainchild of the Nazca culture, which flourished from A.D. 200 to 700. "[This discovery] is really quite exciting," said Charles Stanish, ...
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Authors retract, replace highly cited paper on ADHD in kids
Researchers have retracted and replaced a 2014 paper in JAMA Psychiatry, exploring a new way to classify attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, after discovering errors in the data. Some experts have criticized the current diagnostic criteria for ADHD—noting, in some cases, it could ...
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Emmanuel Macron rarely resists displaying his debating skills in front of an angry crowd. But when the French president visited a hospital ward in Rouen with his wife Brigitte on Thursday, he thought this was a moment to enter via the back door. Outside the front entrance was a crowd of several dozen ...
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The Trump Administration has a historically unprecedented rate of turnover of the senior staff, and it shows no sign of abating. This level of disruption would be difficult for any organization to handle. But these difficulties are compounded in the unique environment of the White House — and, for reasons ...
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"The members of the Security Council expressed their deepest condolences and sympathy to the family of the victim, as well as to the Government of Niger and to MINUSMA," the Council said in a statement paying tribute to the peacekeepers who risk their lives and calling on the Malian Government to ...
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Encased in glass, it resembles an ink-jet printer hacked together, with exposed circuit boards and nozzles aimed at postcard-size wafer of black silicon. As the machine kicked into life, little tanks squeezed droplets of adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine—the A, C, G, and T of DNA—into 9,600 nano-wells ...
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The Co-op, which includes funeral parlours, grocery stores and financial services, made a profit of £72m in the year to 6 January, swinging back from a £132m loss in the previous year, which reflected the £185m writedown of its stake in the Co-operative bank to nil. The group sold its final stake in the ...
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The film, directed by Kay Cannon (it's her first feature), has a premise of classic simplicity that relies on the themes of old-school farce and the narrowly conventional moralism that traditional comedy lampoons. Three comfortably middle-class teen-age girls in an Illinois suburb—Julie (Kathryn Newton), ...
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In recent years, the use of drones has allowed archaeologists to uncover some of the world's most interesting history and hidden secrets. In 2017, for example, the technology helped them map 2,000-year-old Venezuelan rock carvings. Now, with the use of drones, archaeologists in Peru have uncovered ...
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The manufacturing sector added 22,000 jobs in March bringing its 12-month gain to 232,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. Much of last month's gains — as well as the yearly uptick — came from durable goods manufacturing, the department said. Business services also posted strong numbers, ...
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