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CNN — A phone app that Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, apparently used to save his text messages has temporarily suspended its services as it investigates a cybersecurity incident, a spokesperson for the app’s parent company told CNN on Monday. TeleMessage, which makes software for preserving and organizing messages sent via Signal and other mobile apps, is responding to a “recent security incident” and has hired an external cybersecurity firm to help investigate, a spokesperson for Oregon-based digital communications firm Smarsh told CNN. “Out of an abundance of caution, all TeleMessage services have been temporarily suspended.…
CNN — Reopening Alcatraz is such a quintessentially Trumpian idea that it’s a miracle the president didn’t try to do it before. Locking down offenders in tiny cells on an island surrounded by swirling, murderous currents would feed President Donald Trump’s craving for macho spectacle. Years after its closure in 1963, the prison became a pop culture icon with a lore spun from notorious tales of gangster inmates like Al Capone and movies featuring desperados and rough justice — long fascinations of the president. Its notorious legacy perfectly matches the ruthless imagery the White House is weaving as it pursues…
CNN — A woman who vanished more than six decades ago in Wisconsin has been found and as it turns out, she didn’t actually want to be found, authorities say. Audrey Jean Backeberg, 82, went missing on July 7, 1962, from Reedsburg, a small town about 60 miles northwest of Madison, Wisconsin. At the time, she was 20 and another person claimed she and Backeberg hitchhiked to the state capital where they took a Greyhound bus to Indianapolis, Indiana, according to her original missing person’s report. Backeberg walked around the corner away from the bus stop, the person told authorities,…
CNN — All mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the next pope, Italian state media reported. The Vatican also plans to use signal jammers around the Sistine Chapel to prevent electronic surveillance or communication outside the conclave that will see 133 cardinals vote on who will succeed Pope Francis and lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Phone signal will be cut off at 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, an hour and a half before the cardinals are scheduled…
New York CNN — Rite Aid on Monday announced it is filing for bankruptcy for a second time, barely just seven months after the chain exited Chapter 11 and emerged as a private company. The financially strapped drug store chain said it is looking for a buyer, and re-filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection will help facilitate that process. The company said it would keep its stores open throughout its bankruptcy. “While we have continued to face financial challenges, intensified by the rapidly evolving retail and healthcare landscapes in which we operate, we are encouraged by meaningful interest from a…
New York CNN — Rite Aid on Monday announced it is filing for bankruptcy for a second time, barely just seven months after the chain exited Chapter 11 and emerged as a private company. The financially strapped drug store chain said it is looking for a buyer, and re-filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection will help facilitate that process. The company said it would keep its stores open throughout its bankruptcy. “While we have continued to face financial challenges, intensified by the rapidly evolving retail and healthcare landscapes in which we operate, we are encouraged by meaningful interest from a…
CNN — Air traffic controllers who lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to hundreds of delays for more than a week, are taking special government leave for traumatic situations to recover from the stress. The controllers in Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control, which coordinates planes arriving at Newark, “temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them,” on Monday April 28, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in a statement shared with CNN. The connectivity between Federal Aviation Administration radar and the…
The Spectator editor-at-large and Fox News contributor Ben Domenech weighs in as President Donald Trump turns his focus towards passing tax cuts. New data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shows the size of the average tax refund received by taxpayers is up from a year ago. IRS data for the 2024 tax filing season through the week that ended on April 25 showed the average tax refund amount is up 3.3% from last year’s filing season, rising from $2,852 to $2,945.The total amount refunded grew at a slower 2% pace, rising from $260 billion to $265 billion over last year. The…
The Spectator editor-at-large and Fox News contributor Ben Domenech weighs in as President Donald Trump turns his focus towards passing tax cuts. New data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shows the size of the average tax refund received by taxpayers is up from a year ago. IRS data for the 2024 tax filing season through the week that ended on April 25 showed the average tax refund amount is up 3.3% from last year’s filing season, rising from $2,852 to $2,945.The total amount refunded grew at a slower 2% pace, rising from $260 billion to $265 billion over last year. The…
New York CNN — Last week, President Donald Trump advised Americans that his trade war could result in children’s dolls costing “a couple bucks more.” That, at least, seems to have come to fruition. Mattel, the toy manufacturing giant and maker of Barbie, plans to raise prices on American toys due to tariffs, it said Monday in its earnings report. Mattel said that tariffs hadn’t affected its earnings for the first three months of the year. To mitigate future losses, it plans to diversify its supply chain outside of China and “where necessary, taking pricing action in its US business.”…