Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. What just happened? It's been quite a while since Kim Dotcom made headlines. The founder of the defunct file-sharing site Megaupload has been fighting extradition from New Zealand to the US for 12 years, but he has finally lost the battle. However, the German-born internet mogul says he's not leaving.

Kim Dotcom loses extradition battle but refuses to leave New Zealand

ABC News

A Pakistani national with purported ties to Iran was arrested last month on charges he plotted to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

Pakistani national charged with alleged plot to assassinate Trump, other officials

NBC News

WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday slammed the “political hacks” who blocked the trial of accused Sept. 11 terrorists in federal court nearly 15 years ago, saying those politicians owed an apology to the families of the victims of the attack for delaying justice against Guantanamo Bay detainees who Holder said would be “nothing more than a memory” had they been tried and convicted in the United States.

Ex-AG Holder: Accused 9/11 terrorists avoid death row because of 'political hacks' who blocked a U.S. trial

After a 12-year fight with the U.S. government, alleged piracy facilitator Kim Dotcom will be extradited to the United States from New Zealand. The New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith confirmed the news, saying he signed an extradition order for Dotcom this week. “I considered all of the information carefully, and I have decided that Mr. Dotcom should be surrendered to the U.S. to face trial,” Goldsmith says in his statement.

Kim Dotcom Loses 12-Year Fight with U.S. Government, Gets Extradited to U.S.

The head of London’s Metropolitan Police Service has issued a warning that United Kingdom officials will not only target British citizens for sharing content and commentary pertaining to the violent riots and clashes between protesters and counter-protesters, but that officials will also target and potentially extradite and jail American citizens for sharing online content.

UK police chief threatens to jail Americans over online posts: Report

In 2016, multiple men came forward accusing Hip-Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa of sexual molestation. One of the accusers, Ronald “Bee-Stinger” Savage, claimed that Bambaataa had abused him as a teenager. However, in a recent interview with Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur at AllHipHop, Savage has backtracked on his previous claim and now states that Bambaataa is not a pedophile.

Afrika Bambaataa Accuser Backtracks On Previous Claim Of Him Being A Pedophile

Latin Times

The federal government is processing citizenship requests at the fastest rate in a decade, addressing a backlog that accumulated during the Trump administration and the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the close to 3.3 million immigrants who have become citizens during the Biden administration, processing speed sits at under five months, on par with 2013 and 2014.

Immigrants are becoming U.S. citizens at the fastest average rate in a decade

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Virginia Beach, VA

An alleged abduction of three Virginia Beach children ended in a car crash Thursday morning that left the youngest dead, according to police.

1-year-old dead after abduction of 3 children ends in car crash: Police

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A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

South Carolina State

Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Mississippi State

Eddie Templeton said he had only been out in the rural creek for about 30 minutes the morning of Aug. 3 when he found the tusk while searching the bank for fossils.

7-foot-long mammoth tusk found in Mississippi creek in rare discovery

Fox News

Lawful permanent residents are becoming naturalized United States citizens at a pace unseen since 2013 and 2014, potentially reshaping the electorate ahead of the election.

Immigrants becoming citizens at breakneck speed as election approaches: report

Massachusetts State

NewsNation

There has been an influx of incoming migrants stretching the Massachusetts shelter system beyond its limits.

Record number of deportations seen in Massachusetts

Orange County, FL

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On July 14th, an unsettling incident occurred in Orange County that has captured the community’s attention and sympathy. Two dogs were abandoned in a most distressing manner, pushed out of a moving vehicle. The situation took a turn for the worse when one of the dogs was hit by the car, resulting in serious injuries.

Two dogs were dumped and pushed out of a car in Florida, and one of them screamed

Denver, CO

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No, pallet shelters for people experiencing homelessness don’t fold into caskets. It’s a question a reader posed one of the first times I wrote about pallet shelters. I find the pallet shelters to be more palatable than ice fishing tents. The Colorado Village Collaborative operates both micro-communities and the so-called Safe Outdoor Spaces with the tents. We all learned the tents are not safe when a fire roared through a CVC Safe Outdoor Space, destroying the compound quickly. Officials never disclosed a cause of the fire.

Opinion: No, pallet shelters for homeless in Denver, Aurora don’t fold into caskets

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, limiting the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they enforce. This decision overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which had required courts to uphold an agency’s interpretation of a statute as long as it was reasonable when Congress had not directly addressed the issue at hand.

Supreme Court limits federal power in win for citizens

A daring Ukrainian military push into Russia’s Kursk region has seen Kyiv's forces seize scores of villages, take hundreds of prisoners and force the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in what has become the largest attack on the country since World War II. In more than a...

Ukraine’s swift push into the Kursk region shocked Russia and exposed its vulnerabilities

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

The Independent

A Muslim political group has described the scale of racist and Islamophobic abuse it received during the recent general election.The Muslim Vote is reporting the offensive messages received to the police in the hope that the perpetrators will be held accountable.Among the messages, seen by The Independent, are serious threats to safety such as the “burning down” of mosques and correspondence calling staff “vile terrorist scum”.“Get out or die, your choice,” says another.Speaking to The Independent, The Muslim Vote coordinator Abubakr Nanabawa, 24, said the small team within the organisation began receiving an influx of abusive emails around February, accusing...

‘I will burn every single mosque’ - Muslim political group was inundated with racist abuse during election

In addition to collecting more than 8,000 used needles in the past year from Denver drug users, the Harm Reduction Action Center passed out 10,000 meth pipes and “snort kits,” according to a newsletter sent to its supporters Thursday. They also connected about 1,700 people to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Denver group hands out 10K meth pipes, ‘snort kits,’ connects 1,700 to treatment annually

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Kim Dotcom loses 12-year fight to halt deportation from New Zealand to face US case

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Kim Dotcom, founder of the once wildly popular file-sharing website Megaupload, lost a 12-year fight this week to halt his deportation from...

Kim Dotcom loses 12-year fight to halt deportation from New Zealand to face US case

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