By MEAD GRUVER A judge sentenced a former Colorado county clerk to nine years behind bars Thursday for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome. Judge Matthew Barrett … Continued
It’s never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness, but the current news cycle makes it ever so more appreciated. In the new film “White Bird,” in theaters Friday, the act is quite significant: A family in Nazi-occupied … Continued
A 61-year-old Bloomington man who funded videos of monkeys being tortured and killed in Indonesia and then shared them with others online has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to create and distribute videos of animal … Continued
All college football coaches are paranoid; P.J. Fleck will say so himself. That anxiousness peaks around national signing day each winter. A recruit’s verbal commitment one day can be flipped by another program the next, leaving the spurned coach out … Continued
By MAE ANDERSON and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. ports from Maine to Texas shut down this week when the union representing about 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for the first time since 1977. Workers began walking picket … Continued
By HALELUYA HADERO Retailers are ramping up hiring for the holiday season, but fewer seasonal employees are expected to be taken on this year to help customers in stores and assemble online orders in warehouses. E-commerce giant Amazon said Thursday … Continued