(Reuters) - An 11-year-old boy managed to hack into a replica of Florida’s election results website in 10 minutes and change names and tallies during a hackers convention, organizers said, stoking concerns about security ahead of nationwide votes. The boy was the quickest of 35 children, ages 6 to 17, who all eventually hacked into…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionOmarosa Manigault Newman: The audio tapes A former adviser to Donald Trump has released what she says is a tape of a phone call from the US president after her dismissal last year.In the tape played on US TV channel NBC, a voice presumed to be Mr…
FORT DRUM, New York (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed a $716 billion defense policy bill on Monday that authorizes military spending and includes watered-down controls on U.S. government contracts with China’s ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. U.S. President Donald Trump observes a demonstration with U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division troops, an…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionRescue workers pulled children from the rubble At least 39 people - including 12 children - have been killed in a blast that brought down a building in Syria's mainly rebel-held north-western province of Idlib, reports say.The building in the Sarmada town is said to have contained…
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Three of every 10 candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives have significant security problems with their websites, according to a new study by independent researchers that underscores the threat hackers pose to the November elections. The research was due to be unveiled on Sunday at the annual Def Con…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionStolen plane: Footage shows aerial stunts A man who stole an empty passenger plane from Seattle airport and then crashed it was an airline worker with full credentials, authorities say.The 29-year-old had worked for Horizon Air for more than three years, towing and tidying aircraft and loading…
(Reuters) - Federal authorities on Saturday were seeking to learn what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle’s airport in a security scare that caused the scrambling of U.S. fighter jets and ended when the plane crashed onto a sparsely populated island. A Horizon Air ground service agent got into a…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Crops are often treated with the herbicide glyphosate Chemical giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289m (£226m) damages to a man who claimed herbicides containing glyphosate had caused his cancer.In a landmark case, a Californian jury found that Monsanto knew its Roundup and RangerPro weedkillers were dangerous and failed…
MACUSPANA, Mexico (Reuters) - In the swampy wetlands of southern Mexico, officials and researchers are struggling to explain the deaths of dozens of manatees, the chubby marine mammals once confused with mermaids by ancient mariners. The lifeless body of a West Indian manatee, also known as sea cow, floats in the San Miguel river, in…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Is the rhetoric returning to the big guns? North Korea has lashed out at the US for continuing to push for sanctions enforcement. Pyongyang said there would be no progress towards denuclearisation if the US followed an "outdated script".It accused US negotiators of going against the intentions of President Donald…
