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A Russian propaganda campaign backed by the Kremlin that spread online disinformation in the United States and was boosted by artificial intelligence has been disrupted, the Justice Department said on July 9. The internet operation as part of an ongoing effort to sow discord across America through the creation of fictitious social media profiles that purport to belong to authentic Americans but are actually designed to advance the aims of the Russian government, including by spreading disinformation about its war with Ukraine. U.S. officials said the scheme was organized in 2022 after a senior editor at RT, a Russian-state-funded...

It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cities. That decisive move helped bring about the end of World War II, but survivors and the generations that followed were left to grapple with sickness from radiation exposure. At the time, U.S. President Harry Truman called it “the greatest scientific gamble in history,” saying the rain of ruin from the air would usher in a new concept of force and power. What he did not mention was that the federal government had...

Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year, according to an FBI report released in May that shows a rise in losses through increasingly sophisticated criminal tactics to trick the vulnerable into giving up their life savings. Losses from scams reported by Americans over the age of 60 last year were up 11% over the year before, according to the FBI’s report. Investigators are warning of a rise in brazen schemes to drain bank accounts that involve sending couriers in person to collect cash or gold from victims. “It can be a devastating impact to older...

A message displayed above a mural of a sailboat bobbing on ocean waves under a cloud-studded azure sky said, “You are the Lighthouse in someone’s storm.” It was an unexpected slogan for a prison wall. On a nearby door painted deep blue, a bright yellow Minion character offers “ways to say hello,” lists of suggestions about how prisoners incarcerated in a segregated unit of Pennsylvania’s State Correctional Institution at Albion can best greet each other. A handful of “sensory” rooms in the unit offer calming blue walls where harsh fluorescent lighting is dimmed by special covers. The unique environment...