T-Mobile agrees to give money to customers affected by 2021 data breach: Customers of T-Mobile could soon be $5 better off, and the only thing that it needed was for their personal data to be compromised. On Friday, GeekWire came upon an SEC document that detailed a class action settlement that had been reached by the huge mobile operator. A massive data breach at T-Mobile occurred in August 2021, and as part of the proposed settlement, the reimbursement of $350 million would be divided between the attorneys involved and, in the long run, the 76.6 million customers who were affected…
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Ohio couple celebrates 100th birthdays, 79 years of marriage: ‘Been a good life’: Earlier last month, a married Ohio couple celebrated 79 years of marriage. Now, they’re turning 100. In 1922, June Malicote and her husband Hubert Malicote were both born 10 days apart, on July 13 and 23. On Friday, July 15, the Eaton Road Church of God in Hamilton, Ohio, hosted a combined birthday party for the couple from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. for family, friends, and church members. Approximately 130 people came to enjoy the occasion with the couple. During a phone interview with Fox News…
What to Know About the Marburg Virus Disease: On June 27 and 28, Ghana reported the deaths of two people who were not related to each other. This was the first outbreak of the Marburg virus sickness in the country. The public was already concerned because of the ongoing fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and they were recently worried by the spread of monkeypox and a new case of polio. The news of a new outbreak of a deadly disease caused by viral infections added to their existing anxieties. In an effort to bring the infection under control as quickly…
OAN Will Be Stranded After Discarded by Verizon: It would appear that overtly racist, anti-scientific, Trump-supporting, and anti-democratic discourse is no longer tolerated during prime-time programming; but, there is at least one station that continues to allow it. Late on Thursday, Verizon Fios made the announcement that they will no longer carry One America News. The last major TV carrier for the beacon of media hate declared that discussions were “business as usual,” demonstrating that they are the epitome of gentlemanly behavior. In a statement that was given to Gizmodo, Verizon stated that as of the 31st of July, OAN…
Secret Service identified potential missing text messages on the phones of 10 individuals: According to two people who spoke to CNN, investigators from the Secret Service were looking through the mobile devices of ten members of the Secret Service because those devices included information that indicated text conversations had been made and received around January 6, 2021, but were not saved. The investigation was initiated when the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security made a request for the text record histories of twenty-four employees working for the Secret Service who were involved in the events of January 6,…
Unvaccinated Rockland County, N.Y. man diagnosed with polio: According to a news release from the New York State Department of Health and the Rockland County Department of Health on Thursday, a case of polio has been discovered in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County. The organizations verified that the infection was spread by a recipient of the oral polio vaccination, which hasn’t been given in the US since 2000. The virus may have come from outside of the United States, where the oral vaccine is still used, according to officials. In a news conference on Thursday afternoon, Rockland County Executive…
Fox News Will Not Carry Thursday Jan 6 Hearing Live: The most popular cable news network in the country, Fox is favored by conservatives, Republicans, and supporters of the late President Donald Trump. But Fox Business Network, which receives somewhat less attention, and its digital sites were left to carry its live coverage of the hearing on Thursday, January 6. It would have been unwelcome information for many core Fox News viewers to have seen the continuous documentation of the coordinated attack on the Capitol in January of last year and the concomitant attempt to obstruct the November 2020 presidential…
The FCC is cracking down on auto warranty robocalls: The Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday that US telecom companies will now be compelled to stop millions of unlawful robocalls a day that promote extended auto warranties, going after a group of people accused of delivering more than 8 billion such messages since 2018. The FCC issued an order on Thursday requiring voice providers to stop transporting calls it has connected to 13 people and six businesses, largely situated in Texas and California but also in far-flung locations like Hungary. The FCC ruling stated that the group’s robocalls frequently start with…
Galveston County reports first probable monkeypox case: The person is currently stranded in Galveston County and lives out of state. Texas’s GALVESTON COUNTY A person who may have contracted monkeypox is being watched by Galveston County. Galveston County is currently home to the isolated person. Health authorities are attempting to determine who might have been exposed to this person. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have not yet confirmed the case (CDC). “Monkeypox is present in Galveston County and our area, but the risk level for our community is modest. If you discover a new or unexplained rash or…
Record-breaking heat waves in the US and Europe prove climate change is already here, experts say: As the repercussions of climate change continue to appear in catastrophic weather events of all kinds, hundreds of millions of people worldwide are currently facing searing, hazardous heat. On Wednesday, the bulk of the continental U.S. is still covered by a searing airmass, with a heat dome over the Southwest and Great Plains and triple-digit temperatures extending into the Midwest and all the way up the East Coast. There were wildfires across the continent, and more than 1,500 people died from heat-related causes in…