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Photo: Getty Brace yourself for unsettling news. Attorney Jeff Sessions just told a huge group of law enforcement officials in Nashville that President Trump will sign an executive order that reverses an Obama-era ban on the military giving equipment to local police for free. That means that cops will once again have access to tanks,…

Image: AP Hurricane Harvey and its remnants have managed to dump likely record-setting amounts of rainfall across Texas. The Weather Channel expects that some locations could see accumulation totals of 50 inches before the weather finally lets up. Some locations around and outside of Houston have already have seen floods higher than 15 feet. You…

President Trump and EPA head, Scott Pruitt AP On Friday, the EPA announced it was ending its sponsorship of the Climate Leadership Awards, a national program that rewards businesses and organizations making efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Launched under Obama in 2012, the CLA awards companies for setting and meeting voluntary GHG emissions…

Remember that guy on Facebook a couple of weeks ago who said he got stabbed by some stranger because he had a “neo-Nazi” haircut? You’re never going to believe this, but the story was total bullshit. He accidentally stabbed himself. And blamed it on a non-existent black guy. Joshua Witt, a 26-year-old from Colorado, posted…

Image: AP As Gizmodo reported Sunday night, many of the fighting sports fans who paid to see two men beat each other within an inch of their lives struggled to get their $100 worth. Lag, stuttering streams, or complete inability to access the Showtime app, The Hollywood Reporter notes, are now the basis for a…

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech While Venus has been explored a handful of times in the past, no spacecraft has survived the surface for long. Though the planet has had a few visitors orbit it in recent years—including a probe from the ESA that launched in 2005—the last time a probe explored Venus’ surface was roughly 30 years…

Google has removed roughly 300 apps from its Play Store after security researchers from several internet infrastructure companies discovered that the seemingly harmless apps—offering video players and ringtones, among other features—were secretly hijacking Android devices to provide traffic for large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The botnet, nicknamed WireX, caught the attention of security…

Photo: Getty It never fails. For every act of heroism during a national disaster another act of piracy is waiting in the wings. US-CERT, the US government’s chief agency responsible for detecting and minimizing cyber threats, issued an advisory on Monday warning about the proliferation of online scams aimed at those donating to ease the…

QUITO – Twenty crew members of a Chinese ship in Ecuador sentenced to long prison sentences. The authorities caught the Chinese earlier in the Galapagos islands with 300 tons of nearly extinct or endangered animal species on board, including approximately 6600 sharks. The crew of the Fu Yuan Yu Ling 999 between one and four…