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DETROIT 鈥?Edward Fife has not received a raise in his 10 years at Fords Dearborn Truck Plant. Some of his coworkers are 28-year veterans who can only recall a $5 hike in their time at
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WASHINGTON 鈥?President Barack Obama says all Americans owe a debt to the sharecroppers and maids and ordinary Americans who were brave enough to try time and again to re
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Senate on Thursday confirmed Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as Federal Reserve chair, giving bipartisan backing to Powell high-stakes efforts
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TOKYO AP 鈥?Tokyo prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant Tuesday for former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn wife on suspicion of perjury, adding to the couple legal troubles in the country where he once was revered as a star executive.The move against Car
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HONOLULU AP 鈥?President Joe Biden won the Democratic caucuses in Hawaii on Wednesday, propelling him closer to winning his party nomination again after romping through the Super Tuesday contests earlier this week.READ MORE: House Republicans invite Hunter Biden and former associates for a public hearing in mid-MarchThe president defeated long-shot candidates including U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips and author Marianne Williamson.Biden went into the vote with the advantage of incumbency and name recognition. He expected to formally clinch the Democratic nomination later this month and will almost certainly face Donald Trump in the general election after his last major Republican rival, Nikki Haley, exited the race.Biden won with 66 percent of the vote in a contest in which only 1,563 votes were cast, according to the Hawaii Democratic Party. Twenty-nine percent of voters chose Uncommitt
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. 鈥?Federal prosecutors in Florida violated the rights of victims by secretly reaching a non-prosecution agreement with a wealthy financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, a federal judge ruled Thursday.U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra said in a 33-page decision that victims of financier Jeffrey Epstein should have been consulted under federal law about the deal. Marra stopped short of invalidating the non-prosecution agreement but asked prosecutors and victims ; lawyers to recommend in 15 days how to move forward.While the government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the agreement with Epstein attorneys, scant information was shared with victims, Marra wrote. Instead, the victims were told to be patient ; while the investigation proceeded.The law, Marra added, lends itself to only one interpretation; namely, that victims should be notified of significant events resulting in res
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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Pentagon said Tuesday it canceled a disputed
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stanley cup antagonism toward Amazon chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos. Bezos owns The Washington Post, a news outlet often criticized by Trump.The Pentagon chief information officer, John Sherman, told reporters Tuesday that during the lengthy legal fight with Amazon, the landscape has evolved with new possibilities for large-scale cloud computing services. Thus it was decided, he said, to start over and seek multiple vendors. Sherman said JEDI will be replaced by a new program called Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability, and that both Amazon and M
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jordan 鈥?The U.S. National Security Agency says the same Russian military hacking group that interfered in the 2016 presidential election and unleashed a devastating malware attack the following year has been exploiting a major email server program since last August or earlier.The timing of the agency advisory Thursday was unusual considering that the critical vulnerability in the Exim Mail Transfer Agent 鈥?which mostly runs on Unix-type operating systems 鈥?was identified 11 months ago, when a patch was issued.Exim is so widely used 鈥?though far less known than such commercial alternatives as Microsoft proprietary Exchange 鈥?that some companies and government agencies that run it may still not have patched the vulnerability, said Jake Williams, president of Rendition Infosec and a former U.S. government hacker. It took Williams about a minute of online probing on Thursday to find a potentially vulnerable government server in
asics the U.K.He speculated that the NSA might have issued to advisory to publicize the IP addresses and a domain name used by the Russian military group, known as Sandworm, in its hacking campaign 鈥?in hopes of thwarting their use for other means.The Exim exploit allows an attacker to gain access using specially crafted email and install programs, mod
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