U.S. officials are warning of Iranian cyberattacks on businesses and consumers. It comes as a new FBI report shows losses from cybercrime reached nearly $21 billion last year. Ash-har Quraishi shows how hackers are using artificial intelligence, and how you can protect yourself.
London β British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Monday that he was resigning from his position as the leader of the ruling Labour Party, which will also see him replaced as the country’s leader. Starmer has been under mounting pressure to resign for weeks, and his decision came after a political rival from within Labour,…
Salzburg, AustriaΒ βΒ The news of Robert Wilsonβs death at age 83 in New York reached me in a Wilsonian way β at the theater and absorbed in the kind of uncompromisingly slow, shockingly beauteous and incomprehensibly time-and-space-bending weirdness Wilson took infinite pleasure in hosting when he made what he called operas. He called everything he staged…
Floyd Mayweather Jr.βs Christmas Day purchase of an exclusive Audemars Piguet watch has landed the billionaire boxer in court facing two felony charges alleging theft and intent to defraud, according to Clark County, Nev., court records. Mayweather wrote a check for $200,000 to Las Vegas high-end consignment store Gold and Beyond for the timepiece on…
Sir Keir Starmer has warned “public health isn’t a culture war” and urged parents to check their children are up to date with vaccinations after a measles outbreak. The prime minister said it was “concerning to see more children getting measles” as Enfield, north London, recorded 34 confirmed cases between 1 January and 9 February…
As the investigation into the abduction of Nancy Guthrie entered its third week, officials said Monday they cleared direct members of her family as possible suspects. βThe family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,β Chris Nanos, the sheriff of Pima County (Ariz.), said in a statement. βTo be…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and wider threats to the UK and its allies share “a lot of similarities” with the three-year run-up to the Second World War, the armed forces minister has said. Al Carns, a former special forces colonel in the Royal Marines, said Ukraine is on the frontline of Europe’s defences as Vladimir…
Good as advertised. Thatβs all you can say about Dos Pueblos freshman outfielder Mattias Di Maggio, whose first year of high school baseball came to an end with a 13-6 playoff loss to Mira Costa. But what a season he had. He struck out once in 84 at-bats (it came against a Santa Barbara left-handed…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trump said Monday that the United States and Iran are at a βcritical pointβ in negotiating a potential ceasefire agreement, but the chances of reaching a deal by a Trump-imposed deadline on Tuesday evening appeared uncertain. In a lengthy news briefing at the White House, the president echoed an expletive-laden Easter Sunday warning to…
It is “outrageous” that a convicted fraudster tracked down by Sky News in Tenerife is still on the run, the Speaker of the House of Commons has said. Pamela Gwinnett isolated 89-year-old Joan Green from her family during the COVID-19 pandemic, convinced Joan to give her lasting power of attorney, then raided her life savings….