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• The Latest: DR prosecutor vows no impunity in Ortiz shooting

  12-06-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The chief prosecutor in the Dominican Republic says that no one involved in the shooting of former Red Sox star will remain in impunity, not even in the intellectual author of the crime.Authorities say six suspects, including the alleged gunman, have been detained in the shooting of Ortiz at a popular Santo Domingo bar Sunday night.
  
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• House Panel Votes to Hold Barr, Ross in Contempt of Congress

  12-06-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Earlier Wednesday, President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege over the material.The Oversight and Reform Committee’s 24-15 vote Wednesday for the civil contempt resolution gives Democratic Chairman Elijah Cummings the option to file a lawsuit to enforce the panel’s subpoenas for the documents.
  
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• UPDATE 4-Jet.com falls by wayside as Walmart focuses on its website, online grocery

  12-06-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Walmart Inc on Wednesday announced a sweeping overhaul at Jet.com, an online start-up it acquired in 2016 for $3.3 billion, after it failed to live up to the world's largest retailer's e-commerce ambitions.Walmart said it will integrate Jet.com's retail, technology, marketing, analytics and product teams with its own online business.Walmart's move reduces the scope and importance of Jet.com in its overall U.S. e-commerce business, which competes with Amazon.com Inc, according to interviews with
  
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• Trump announces 1,000 extra troops for Poland

  12-06-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he will send 1,000 more troops to Poland to counter Russia, while criticizing Germany for making itself a "hostage" to Moscow by over-relying on Russian energy supplies.Details of the troop boost were thin but they fell far short of Poland's long-running hope for a permanent major US military base.About 5,000 US soldiers already deploy along with NATO forces in Poland as part of a rotating pool, rather than a fixed garrison.
  
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• The Lessons of the Mueller Probe

  12-06-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Editor’s Note: The following is the written testimony submitted by Mr. McCarthy in connection with a hearing earlier today before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the Mueller Report (specifically, the first volume of the report, which addresses Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign, as to which Special Counsel Mueller found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin). The hearing was broadcast on C-SPAN, here.Chairman Schiff, Ranking Mem
  
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• Back surgery sidelines Howard Schultz’s exploratory campaign

  12-06-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Schultz said he underwent three surgeries after experiencing acute pain in Arizona.
  
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• Taking heat from critics, Bernie Sanders defends democratic socialist views

  12-06-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders said his vision of democratic socialism would guarantee a fair deal and basic economic rights for all Americans and would be instrumental in beating Republican President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.Roosevelt's Depression-era New Deal policies, which included public works jobs, strong banking and financial regulations and the Social Security retirement program, made huge progress in protecting the needs of working families, Sanders said.
  
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• The Latest: Japanese leader seeks to cool US-Iran tensions

  12-06-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Japan is visiting Iran to warn that an "accidental conflict" could be sparked amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivered that message just hours after Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels attacked an airport in Saudi Arabia, wounding 26 people.Abe's trip is the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate the crisis as Tehran appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers.
  
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• Man pleads guilty to killing three Muslim students

  12-06-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The North Carolina man charged with killing three Muslim university students has pleaded guilty four years after the slayings. (June 12)
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow Doesn't Always Live With Her Husband. A Relationship Expert Says There Can Be Benefits to That.

  12-06-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  An expert breaks down why this can be good for a marriage
  
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• Trump news: President asserts executive privilege over subpoenaed documents as he rages over humiliating polls

  12-06-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  California senator Kamala Harris, one of the leading Democratic candidates to challenge the president in 2020, has said the Justice Department would have little choice but to pursue criminal obstruction charges against Donald Trump if she were elected to the Oval Office.President Trump has meanwhile lashed out on Twitter suggesting reports about internal polling indicating he might lose next year’s race are “Fake numbers” and the work of the “Fake (Corrupt) News Media&rdq
  
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• 9/11 victims bill passes House panel after Jon Stewart's plea receives standing ovation

  12-06-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The House Judiciary Committee has unanimously passed a bill which would permanently reauthorize the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund on Wednesday.The decision comes the day after comedian Jon Stewart appeared before the committee with an impassioned testimony in support of the Fund. The bill is a response to a February announcement that future payouts from the Fund would be cut by as much as 70 percent to offset surging claims from those who are ill, as well as from the families of those who have d
  
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• iRobot's Super Popular Roomba Vacuum is 40% Off Today

  12-06-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  But this deal is here today, gone tomorrow.
  
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• Ex-Stanford Sailing Coach Gets First Sentence in College-Admissions Scam, Avoids Prison Time

  12-06-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSFormer Stanford University sailing coach John Vandemoer was sentenced to two years of supervised release and six months of home detention on Wednesday, becoming the first of 50 defendants to be punished for their role in the college admissions scandal.Vandemoer pleaded guilty in March to a racketeering conspiracy in which he accepted $610,000 in payments to facilitate the admission of students as sailing recruits to Stanford. In addition to the home confinement and supervised release, Jud
  
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• Illinois Governor Signs Bill Scrapping Third-Trimester Abortion Restrictions

  12-06-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a wide-ranging bill protecting abortion rights in the state.The Reproductive Health Act states that "a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the laws of this state" and that an individual has a "fundamental right" to abortion."If you believe in standing up for women's fundamental rights, Illinois is a beacon of hope in the heart of this nation," Pritzker said before signing the law. "We trust women."T
  
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• Starbucks' Howard Schultz pauses presidential campaign efforts after back surgeries

  12-06-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Howard Schultz, the former CEO of Starbucks who began building an independent campaign for president earlier this year, announced on Wednesday that he was pausing his bid after undergoing three back surgeries this spring."Today, I am feeling much better, and my doctors foresee a full recovery so long as I rest and rehabilitate.While campaigning in Arizona in April, Schultz said he began to experience acute back pain.
  
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• Trump calls battle over census citizenship question 'ridiculous'

  12-06-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  While claiming he has not been “overly involved in the census controversy,” President Trump called the question of whether to allow a question about citizenship on the 202 Census forms “totally ridiculous” Wednesday.
  
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• New Aston Martin DBX SUV Details Revealed by Preproduction Prototype

  12-06-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A new set of images gives us our best look yet at Aston Martin's upcoming crossover.
  
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• Illinois establishes abortion as 'fundamental right'

  12-06-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The governor of the US state of Illinois on Wednesday enacted a law establishing a "fundamental right" to abortion and removing old laws that criminalized the procedure.The law repeals criminal penalties on abortion providers, codifying what had already been de facto law through court rulings.The measure also requires private health insurance companies in the state to cover abortion procedures.
  
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• Huawei files to trademark mobile OS around the world after U.S. ban

  12-06-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  LIMA/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's Huawei has applied to trademark its "Hongmeng" operating system (OS) in at least nine countries and Europe, data from a U.N. body shows, in a sign it may be deploying a back-up plan in key markets as U.S. sanctions threaten its business model.The move comes after the Trump administration put Huawei on a blacklist last month that barred it from doing business with U.S. tech companies such as Alphabet Inc, whose Android OS is used in Huawei's phones.Since then, Hu
  
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• Hong Kong slams brakes on extradition bill amid massive protests

  12-06-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The afternoon violence marked a major escalation in the semiautonomous Chinese territory’s biggest political crisis in years.
  
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• Google just revealed the Pixel 4 months earlier than expected

  12-06-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  In a shocking turn of events, Google shared the first image of its next smartphone on Wednesday, confirming many of the leaks that have been spreading around the internet over the last few weeks. If Google sticks to the same release schedule it had for the Pixel 3, then the Pixel 4 won't officially launch until October, which makes this an incredibly early reveal. But there's no denying that it will get people talking.If you've been keeping up with the countless leaks in recent weeks, the produc
  
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• Mexico: Amlo says sale of presidential plane will fund migrant crackdown

  12-06-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Funds from sale of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s jet will be put toward the deployment of the newly formed national guard The presidential plane, pictured in Colombia in June 2017. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesAndrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to fund a crackdown on migrants to Mexico from Central America with proceeds from the sale of his office’s aircraft, a 787 Dreamliner which has been on offer since shortly after the Mexican president
  
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• Jamie Dimon Draws a Bernie Sanders Taunt by Knocking Socialism

  12-06-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Dimon, speaking at a Business Roundtable event on Wednesday, said giving the government control of companies allows them to be used for political purposes, leading to deterioration.“I didn’t hear Jamie Dimon criticizing socialism when Wall Street begged for the largest federal bailout in American history—some $700 billion from the Treasury and even more from the Fed,” he wrote on Twitter.
  
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• Ford recalls 1.2 million Explorer SUVs, 123,000 F-150 pickups over crash risk

  12-06-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford Motor Co. issued several recalls, including more than 1.2 million Ford Explorer SUVs and more than 120,000 Ford F-150 pickup trucks.
  
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• Bodies of Maryland couple who died at Dominican Republic resort returned to US

  12-06-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Edward Nathaniel Holmes and Cynthia Ann Day were found dead in their hotel room in the Dominican Republic on May 30.
  
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• Relatives ask jury to spare life of father who killed 5 kids

  12-06-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  One more group of family members asked a jury Wednesday to spare the life of a South Carolina father convicted of murdering his five children, saying they have been through enough pain already.The same jury that convicted Timothy Jones Jr. of killing his five children in their Lexington home in August 2014 is set to begin deliberating his fate Thursday morning.
  
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• Japan's PM urges Iran to play 'constructive role' in Mideast

  12-06-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Japan's visiting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Iran to play a "constructive role" for peace in the Middle East on Wednesday after meeting with President Hassan Rouhani."It is essential that Iran plays a constructive role in building solid peace and stability in the Middle East," Abe told a joint news conference in Tehran with the Iranian leader.
  
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• France's Le Pen faces trial over Twitter images of Islamic State atrocities

  12-06-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  French far-right politician and former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will face trial over publishing images of Islamic State atrocities on Twitter in December 2015, a judicial source said on Wednesday.Lawyers for Le Pen could not be reached for comment.Le Pen has said before that legal proceedings against her are a form of political interference.
  
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• Japan premier warns US, Iran 'accidental conflict' possible

  12-06-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe traveled to Tehran on Wednesday to warn that an "accidental conflict" could be sparked amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S., a message that came hours after Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels attacked a Saudi airport, wounding 26 people.Abe's trip is the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate the crisis as Tehran appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers, an accord that the Trump administration pulled out of last
  
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• Protesters scuffle with Hong Kong police, government offices shut down

  12-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Scuffles broke out between protesters and police in Hong Kong on Thursday as hundreds of people remained on the streets to protest a planned extradition law with mainland China, a day after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators.Protester numbers around the city's legislature, the epicenter of the violence, swelled during Thursday to thousands at one stage, with some protesters rushing to stop police from removing supplies of face masks and food.Uniformed police with helmets a
  
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• Hong Kong protesters scuffle with police, government offices shut

  12-06-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Scuffles broke out between demonstrators and police in Hong Kong on Thursday as hundreds of people kept up a protest against a planned extradition law with mainland China, a day after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up big crowds.Protests around the city's legislature on Wednesday forced the postponement of debate on the extradition bill, which many people in Hong Kong fear will undermine freedoms and confidence in the commercial hub.Hong Kong's China-backed Chief Executive Car
  
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• The moon’s largest crater is hiding something huge, but astronomers aren’t quite sure what

  12-06-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The mass is five times the size of Hawaii’s Big Island and buried underneath the South Pole-Aitkin basin – the moon’s largest crater.
  
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• Former Trump adviser Flynn hires Mueller critic as lawyer

  12-06-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Powell, who has previously urged Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea over lying to the FBI https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/flynn-pleads-guilty-to-lying-on-russia-cooperates-with-u-s-probe-idUSKBN1DV50N about his contacts with Russia, suggested her client would not withdraw his plea and would adhere to the terms of his guilty plea signed in December 2017."Attorney Powell is honored to represent General Flynn and he will continue to cooperate with the government in all matters,"
  
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• 6 paid iPhone apps you can download for free on June 12th

  12-06-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Yesterday's roundup of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free had several gems in it, and a few of them are still free so definitely go back and check it out if you missed it. Once you're done with that, you'll find six fresh premium apps in today's roundup that are all free downloads for a limited time.This post covers paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. BGR is not affiliated with any app developers. There is no way to tel
  
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• Michael Flynn hires fierce FBI critic as new lawyer

  12-06-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Flynn's new lawyer has claimed that Flynn was spied on as part of a “set-up” by the FBI.
  
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• The 2020 Range Rover Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic Makes the Velar Go as Well as it Looks

  12-06-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Some fine tuning and additional V-8 power turn the Range Rover Velar into a refined hot rod.
  
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• US resident freed by Iran to Trump: 'Get back your hostages'

  12-06-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A Lebanese man and permanent U.S. resident who was released after spending years in an Iranian prison called on President Donald Trump and Western countries to "please get back your hostages from Iran," adding that he saw American detainees during his nearly four-year imprisonment.In an interview with The Associated Press, Nizar Zakka said he was subjected to "all kinds of torture," both physical and mental, during his detention in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, including standing on one l
  
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• Johnson ‘Not Attracted’ to Suspending Parliament: Brexit Update

  12-06-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Dialing down his earlier rhetoric, the favorite to replace Theresa May said he wants a “sensible, orderly” divorce, but he vowed to leave the bloc on Oct. 31.Home Secretary Sajid Javid finally launched his leadership campaign (see 3:10 p.m.), pitching himself as the future face of the Conservative Party.“A leader is not just for Christmas and not just for Brexit,” he said in his speech, adding that voters care about much more than leaving the European Union.
  
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• Joe Biden tells 13-year-old's brothers to 'keep the guys away from your sister'

  12-06-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden faced criticism after telling a teenage girl’s brothers to “keep the guys away from your sister”.The former US vice-president, who is leading the race to become the 2020 Democratic nominee, is said to have made the remark while campaigning in Iowa on Wednesday.Liz Goodwin, a political reporter at the Boston Globe, tweeted: “Joe Biden meets a voter’s granddaughter in an Iowa coffee shop and asks her age. “She says she’s 13. He addresses her brot
  
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• Mortgage applications surge on refinances as as rates hit 21-month low

  12-06-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  As mortgage rates fell to the lowest level since September 2017, mortgage applications surged 26.8% last week, led by an increase in refinancing.
  
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• Ilhan Omar’s Tax Filings Draw Accusations of Irregularities

  12-06-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A state investigation into Representative Ilhan Omar's misuse of campaign funds uncovered discrepancies in her tax filings as well, alleging that she filed jointly with a man she was living with while still married to her previous husband.The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board stated in a report that the Democratic congresswoman filed joint tax returns with Ahmed Hirsi for two years despite still being legally married to another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. Minnesota prohib
  
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• Microsoft Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in NTLM

  12-06-2019 18:04
  Microsoft on Tuesday released security patches for nearly 90 vulnerabilities, including two Critical bugs impacting the proprietary authentication protocol NTLM. 
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• Ford recalls more than 1.2m cars over fears of 'loss of steering control'

  12-06-2019 18:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford Motor Company issued four safety recalls in North America on Wednesday, including one covering more than 1.2m SUVs.Approximately 1.2 million 2011-2019 model-year Ford Explorers, built between May 17, 2010 and January 26, 2017 in Chicago, will be recalled in the US after the automaker discovered a defect that puts drivers at risk of crashing. The error concerns loss of steering control.The same recall affects approximately 28,000 SUVs in Canada and Mexico.Damages on the SUVs are expected to
  
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• Official: Pilot who crashed helicopter radioed he was lost

  12-06-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The pilot killed when his helicopter hit the roof of a New York City skyscraper in rain and fog radioed that he was lost and trying to get back to the heliport but couldn't find it, an official briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press on Tuesday.Videos posted on social media soon after the crash showed a helicopter that investigators believe is the doomed chopper pausing and hovering south of the heliport, then turning and making an erratic flight back north through rain and clouds
  
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• See the stunning photos: National Geographic's travel photo contest winners revealed

  12-06-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  National Geographic has revealed the winners of its annual Travel Photo Contest — and the photos are stunning.
  
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• How Insecurity Can Bolster Your Security Program

  12-06-2019 17:33
  Insecurity Can Help Organizations Continually Learn and Make Changes
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• Restored Genuine 007 1965 Aston Martin DB5 Heading To Auction!

  12-06-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  One of three surviving genuine James Bond Aston Martin DB5s will be sold during Monterey car week 2019.‘The Most Famous Car in the World’ is heading to auction with RM Sothebys! One of three surviving examples commissioned in period by EON Productions and fitted with Q-Branch specifications, as showcased in 1964’s Goldfinger, will be sold during Monterey 2019.Perhaps the ultimate marketing relationship, James Bond and Aston Martin have walked hand-in-hand for more than half a c
  
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• North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to 2015 Murder of 3 Muslim Students

  12-06-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSA North Carolina man accused in the fatal shooting of three Muslim college students pleaded guilty on Wednesday, four years after the he turned himself into police.Craig Stephen Hicks, 50, pleaded guilty in Durham Superior Court to three counts of first-degree murder for the Feb. 2015 shooting, just two months after the District Attorney’s office dropped their intention to seek the death penalty. Prosecutors alleged Hicks fatally shot his downstairs neighbors—23-year old Deah
  
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• Critical Adobe Flash player bug and more in June’s Patch Tuesday

  12-06-2019 17:16
  June patch Tuesday features fixes from Adobe and Microsoft for critical flaws including a remote code vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player.
  
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