Columbus, OH

NBC News

Iran is stepping up its influence campaign aimed at the U.S., researchers at Microsoft said in a new report, adding to the ongoing efforts by Russia and China to sway American public opinion before the presidential election. Researchers identified websites that they attributed to the Iranian operation, aimed at voters...

Iran is targeting the U.S. election with fake news sites and cyber operations, research says

CBS News

Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday.Iranian actors also have spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway American voters this fall, especially in swing states, the technology giant found.The findings in Microsoft's newest threat intelligence report show how Iran, which has been active in recent U.S. elections, is evolving its tactics for another election that's likely to have global implications. The report goes a step beyond anything...

Iran targeting U.S. election with cyberattacks, Microsoft says

PBS NewsHour

NEW YORK (AP) — Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the U.S. election, in one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday. WATCH: Iran just elected its first reformist president in two decades. What’s next?. Iranian actors also...

Iran ramping up cyber activity apparently meant to influence U.S. election, Microsoft says

UPI News

Microsoft warned in a Thursday report that Iran is seeking to influence the U.S. presidential election with cyber AI-enabled campaigns targeting both left-leaning and conservative voters.

Microsoft warns of Iranian AI efforts to influence 2024 U.S. presidential election

The Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s newly elected president said his government will create “balance in relations with all countries” in line with national interests and the prerequisites for peace but stressed to the United States that his country “will not respond to pressure.”. Masoud Pezeshkian...

Iran’s new president vows balance with all countries but warns US his country won’t be pressured

Oklahoma State

A group of Oklahoma college students believe they were drugged in Cancun, Mexico after getting severely ill after going to a bar. The 20-year-olds’ vacation to Cancun quickly became a nightmare after two women — Zara Hull and Kaylie Pitze — needed to be hospitalized after drinking water at a bar.

College students say they suffered terrifying symptoms after drinking laced water at Cancun bar

Latin Times

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is escalating his rhetoric as the country's presidential elections get closer, now warning society risks a "fratricidal civil war" and a "bloodbath" if his party doesn't win. "If you don't want Venezuela to fall into a bloodbath, into a fratricidal civil war because of fascists,...

Venezuela's Maduro warns there will be a 'bloodbath' and a 'civil war' if his party doesn't win the elections

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be calling former President Donald Trump after he was shot at at a campaign rally over the weekend, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, as the Russian government accused the Biden administration of creating an atmosphere that led to the attack."We do not at all think or believe that the attempt to eliminate presidential candidate Trump was organized by the current government, but the atmosphere that this administration created during the political struggle, the atmosphere around candidate Trump provoked what America is faced with today," Peskov said on Sunday.On Sunday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson...

Russia, China and other foreign powers react to Trump rally shooting

- Advertisement - In an exclusive revelation, the government has confirmed that North Korea has deployed over 500 technical and medical support troops to Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine. This deployment occurred even before North Korea and Russia signed a treaty on “automatic military aid” in June, according to TV Chosun....

North Korea deploys 500 technical and medical troops to Russian-occupied Ukraine

A week after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the Atlantic published a headline claiming that "Trump is Planning for a Landslide Win." Now, a little over a month and one presidential candidate swap later, the 2024 presidential election’s likely results appear a little less obvious. With the defiant...

Trump is freaking out about Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers: ‘It’s unfair’

Nancy Pelosi is finally making clear her role in the pressure campaign which led to Joe Biden making the painful, personal decision to step down as the Democratic Party’s 2024 candidate. The former House speaker sat down with The New Yorker for an interview which published on Thursday; in...

Pelosi says she didn’t think Biden would win and reveals chilled relationship with president

Donald Trump has tried out a number of nicknames as he tries to define Kamala Harris in the presidential race. There was “Laffin’ Kamala,” and there was “Lyin’ Kamala” but there has been none so confusing as simply “Kamabla.”. Because nobody knows what...

Trump keeps calling Harris ‘Kamabla’ but nobody seems to know the meaning behind it

Los Angeles, CA

NCIS: Los Angeles actor Gabriel Olds was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting at least three women across the country, police announced this week. Olds, 52, was arrested Monday by the Los Angeles Police Department on seven felony sexual assault charges, and is now being held on a $3.5 million bond, according to public records. Police said the women told officers that Olds lured them in using his status as an actor and alum of Yale University, a prestigious Ivy League school, before becoming violent.

‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ actor accused of raping women he’d lured in with his Hollywood, Ivy League status on dating apps

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L.A. TACO

L.A. TACO has identified the police officer seen in a viral video sucker-punching a detained man named Alexander Mitchell in Watts over the weekend as Los Angeles Police Department Officer (LAPD) Joshua Sportiello.

LAPD Officer Identified After Punching Detained Man In Face In Watts On Video

Missouri State

The Forward

Pro-Israel groups celebrated a second victory Tuesday in their campaign to unseat Israel’s staunchest critics in Congress when Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri lost in the Democratic primary. Rep. Jamaal Bowman was defeated in June. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project, spent at least $24 million to oust Bush...

Pro-Israel groups helped defeat Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush. Why aren’t they targeting Ilhan Omar?

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Houston, TX

Huntsville, TX

When Sarah Adleman woke up on Wednesday, her first order of business, she said, was to go for “a long run.”. It was a fitting tribute to her mom, Nancy, who was strangled to death nearly three decades ago while jogging by the Brays Bayou river near her Houston home. She was 48 years old.

Her mom’s murderer faces execution tonight. Will she read the letter he wrote to her?

The U.S. is deploying additional military might in the Middle East as a defensive measure with a goal of de-escalating tensions in the region, a White House official said on Sunday. More information with FRANCE 24 international affairs commentator, Douglas Herbert.

US deploys troops and says ready to defend Israel if Iran launches an attack against the Jewish state

California State

Three German tourists have been cited for firing paintball guns inside Joshua Tree national park earlier this month. On August 4, a park ranger patrolling a campground inside the California park saw “fresh yellow paintball splatter” on nearby structures and signs, according to a press release. Rangers found at least eleven signs splattered with the yellow paint.

German tourists shoot paintballs all over Joshua Tree national park in California

Wisconsin State

Eau Claire, WI

Secret Service snipers were positioned outside a rally for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in Wisconsin, the first major outdoor presidential campaign event since a gunman opened fire on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania last month. Secret Service agents were positioned outside the Harris-Walz rally in Eau Claire on Wednesday,...

Snipers watch over Harris-Walz outdoor rally, the first since gunman opened fire on Trump in Pennsylvania

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Microsoft says Iran is using fake news sites to influence 2024 election

Groups connected to the Iranian government are ramping up their efforts to interfere with voters’ decision-making in the 2024 presidential election by targeting far-left and far-right...

Microsoft says Iran is using fake news sites to influence 2024 election

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