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The FBI and other intelligence agencies revealed Wednesday that Iran attempted to share information stolen during its hack on the Trump campaign with the Biden campaign and continues to send material to various media outlets.

“Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,” the agency wrote in a joint statement alongside the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

“There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied.”

The Harris campaign condemned the sharing of Trump campaign data but said what appeared to be phishing emails sent by Iran to staffs’ personal emails were ignored.

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Earlier this year, Oklahoma state lawmakers passed a historic law requiring reduced sentences for survivors of domestic violence who could prove their crimes were related to their abuse.

The Oklahoma Survivors’ Act, which passed with nearly unanimous support from state lawmakers, was inspired by women who faced harsh prison sentences for killing their abusers to protect themselves; who committed a crime while trying to flee abuse; or who were pressured by their abuser into breaking the law. It created a sentencing matrix that caps sentences for qualifying individuals at 30 years in prison. People who were sentenced prior to the law’s passage can petition for resentencing under the modified rules.

As flu season nears, so do new COVID-19 variants.

A newly discovered COVID strain known as XEC continues to spread rapidly across multiple countries, including the U.S.

Scripps Research’s Outbreak.info page, last updated on Sept. 5, reported 95 XEC cases across 12 U.S. states and 15 different countries.

However, Australia based data integration specialist Mike Honey wrote on X Saturday that the new strain, which emerged in Berlin last June, has shown up in hundreds more patients across 27 countries in Europe, North America and Asia.

Omicron variant KP.3.1.1, also known as deFLuQE, made up over half (52.7%) of COVID-19 cases between Sept. 1 and Sept. 14. However XEC and a variant known as MV.1 seem poised to become the next dominant strains, scientists say.

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Hundreds more people were reported injured in Lebanon on Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of blasts involving communication devices used by Lebanon's Hezbollah group, media reports said.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the blasts involved walkie-talkies used by the group and pagers. Some of the explosions reportedly took place inside homes in Beirut and at least one happened at a funeral.

At least nine people were reported killed and 300 injured in the latest attack, on top of the 12 dead and thousands hurt on Tuesday.

The Federal Reserve lowered its key interest rate by a hefty half percentage point Wednesday, moving ahead with its first rate cut in four years and cheering markets that expected an emphatic move amid a softening jobs picture.

With the slowing labor market posing a growing risk to the economic expansion, Fed officials opted for a bold approach to launch a projected flurry of rate cuts now that inflation is easing.

But the central bank forecast a total of just a half point in additional cuts the rest of the year, signaling officials don’t believe the job market is collapsing.

 

The Green household was taken over by piles of clothing, books, and kid’s toys this summer, as 40-year old Inbal Green and her husband Shlomy Green, 37, packed up their lives. Along with their dog, cat and four-year-old daughter Riley, the Israeli couple were leaving suburban life outside Tel Aviv and moving to Thailand. Since the war in Gaza began last October, they'd felt too unsafe to stay.

Shlomy opened a kitchen cabinet filled to the brim with stacks of canned goods, cereal and teabags.

“Now we have to sort through the entire house and decide only what we want to take with us,” he said. “That’s why the house is in complete shambles.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was briefed last week during his trip to Kyiv on elements of a Ukrainian plan to push Russia to end the war, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the sex trafficking conviction of the former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, rejecting her appeal.

Maxwell, 62, was arrested in 2020 and charged with involvement in her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of teenage girls.

In 2021, Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking in a Manhattan federal court trial, where she was convicted on five of the six charges she faced for having recruited and groomed four underage girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004.

In 2022, she was sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

In the new judgment, filed on Tuesday at Manhattan’s second US circuit court of appeals and viewed by the Guardian, the appeals court affirmed and upheld Maxwell’s convictions and described her sentence as “procedurally reasonable”.

Maxwell appealed her conviction after she was sentenced in 2022, and has argued that she ought to be immune from prosecution due to a non-prosecution agreement federal prosecutors in Florida arranged with Epstein in 2007.

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