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Man who bombed woman’s home, plotted python attack learns fate

A Georgia man who pleaded guilty to bombing a woman’s home in a bizarre plot that included conspiring to “release a large python into the victim’s home to eat the victim’s daughter,” was sentenced to 20 years in prison, authorities announced. Stephen Glosser, 38, of Savannah, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison after […]

Lifestyle & Culture

TikTok’s Fate Is in the Supreme Court’s Hands

Its name is a mouthful, but no one who stops to read the text of the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which Congress and President Joe Biden codified as law last year, can have any doubts that its purpose was to give TikTok and its foreign owners an ultimatum: sell the wildly […]

Sports

Morris: Timeout could’ve helped Falcons’ fourth-quarter fate

Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterDec 30, 2024, 01:31 AM ET LANDOVER, Md. — Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris said calling a timeout after a key first-down catch late in the fourth quarter with the score tied Sunday night “could have” been a better decision than running a hurry-up play. The Falcons had to settle for […]

Politics

Fate of Trump’s Cabinet picks unclear as Republicans prepare to take power in Senate

WASHINGTON — The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s views on vaccines, accusations of sexual misconduct against Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 meeting with then-President Bashar Assad of Syria. While some GOP senators have indicated […]

Technology

The Supreme Court will decide the fate of America’s low-income broadband fund

The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on a case involving funding for a major broadband subsidy program, the Universal Service Fund (USF). SCOTUS granted cert in a pair of cases called Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, and Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition v. Consumers’ Researchwhich were consolidated for oral arguments. They center […]

Technology

Fate of Google’s search empire could rest in Trump’s hands

It would be unusual for Trump to meddle with the DOJ’s ongoing litigation, antitrust expert George Hay told Business Insiderbut then again, “Trump is a bit more of a wild card.” “It’s very rare that, at the presidential level, there’s any attempt to influence the course of cases which have already been filed. Those have […]