On Wednesday, security researchers from Google and cybersecurity firm Mandiant announced that a network of fake pro-Chinese social media accounts had attempted to mobilize Americans to participate in anti-racism protests in response to the coronavirus pandemic. According to a report the two organizations released, the network “appeared to be unsuccessful,” but in one case it … Read more
An artist’s conception shows SpaceX’s spaceship rocket ship on the moon. (SpaceX illustration) NASA says it will withhold its payments to SpaceX for the development of its Starship super rocket as a lunar lander, while the Government Accountability Office addresses the $ 2.9 billion contracting challenges of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture as well … Read more
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police shot and killed a young girl in Columbus on Tuesday just before a jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of the death of George Floyd last year. In an unprecedented move, Columbus police later showed body cameras of an officer who shot the girl, who was black, as she … Read more
April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ET April 16, 2021, 1:16 a.m. ETA demonstrator outside the Brooklyn Center police department on Thursday night.Credit…Victor J. Blue for The New York Times BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — For a fifth night after a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb shot and killed a 20-year-old man, hundreds of people rattled … Read more