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“Bomb on target. One by APRS. Four-meter HOB. Thirty-second SST.” “Roger sending.” It’s the tiny weapon seen in conflicts around the world. “Attaching warhead. Inserting cap.” “Flipping drone.” “Spinning props.” You may not see it coming, but you’ll hear it. And by then, it’s already too late. “Contact. I got southeast-facing window. Request permission to engage.” So this is a first-person-view attack drone, essentially a modified quadcopter. And these Marines have just had three weeks of training to get ready to get this thing into combat. F.P.V.s are designed to follow a moving target and bomb it with a push…

NEW YORK — No quick dispatching of disease investigators. No news conference to inform the public. No timely health alerts to doctors. In the midst of a strange outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship that involves Americans and is making headlines around the world, the U.S. government’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been missing in action, according to a number of experts. “We seem to have things under very good control,” President Donald Trump told reporters Friday evening. But experts say the situation has not spiraled because, unlike COVID-19 or measles or…

Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online platform that manages exams, course notes, lecture videos and grades. The disruption tied to a cyberattack hit in the middle of finals period for many colleges, a high-stress time when students and instructors rely heavily on the platform. By late Thursday, Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said the platform was available again to most users. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. On Friday, Instructure and Canvas no longer…

A former NFL player was sentenced to prison for over 16 years for a $197 million Medicare fraud scheme. Joel Rufus French, who played for the Seattle Seahawks, was convicted in February of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to offer, pay, solicit and receive kickbacks. He sold patient information and counterfeit doctors’ orders for unneeded orthotic braces, according to the Justice Department.  French worked with overseas telemarketing call centers that pressured elderly Americans into providing personal and health insurance information and agreeing to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces, according to…

On Friday, federal prosecutors levied firearms-related charges against three men arrested in New York and accused of gunrunning into Canada. Suspects Malik Bromfield, Faizan Ali and Kamal Salman were arrested Thursday and are alleged to have had 89 guns, at least 17 of them previously reported stolen, with them in their car, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. The New York State Police stopped the car, a white Ford Explorer with North Carolina tags rented via Enterprise, on New York State Route 90 in Liberty, New York, over 84 miles northwest of New York…

Faith leaders and politicians paid tribute at a funeral Saturday to eight children who were killed in a mass shooting last month in Louisiana. The victims of the April 19 shooting in Shreveport included seven siblings who were shot by their father in an attack that also killed their cousin. The service on Mother’s Day weekend at Summer Grove Baptist Church began with a long procession of mourners slowly filing past eight white caskets with large photos of the children next to them. Gold crowns and bouquets of white flowers were placed on top of the closed caskets. A choir…

Model minority. Perpetual foreigner. The centuries-old stereotypes of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as passive bystanders in American culture and politics still persist, despite U.S. history being full of examples to the contrary. The way to change that, scholars believe, is by teaching younger generations that history. A free, digital textbook overseen by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center aims to be a high-caliber guide to help high school and college educators nationwide teach more effectively about AAPI experiences. “Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook” is the culmination of years of work by 100 contributors, from…

Utah Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen resigned Friday amid a looming state investigation into allegations she carried on an improper relationship with an attorney who argued before the court, citing the toll further scrutiny would take on her family. Justice Hagen submitted her resignation letter to Gov. Spencer Cox effective immediately, according to the governor’s office. She has served on the Utah Supreme Court since 2022. “It is with deep sadness that I tender my immediate resignation as a justice of the Utah Supreme Court,” Justice Hagen wrote, adding that she regretted “the disruption my sudden departure will cause the…

The pedestrian who was hit and killed by a Frontier plane at the Denver International Airport Friday night breached airport security and ran onto the runway, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Saturday. The plane hit the unidentified person during takeoff at high speed, he said. “DEN can confirm the pedestrian jumped the perimeter fence and was hit just two minutes later while crossing the runway,” the airport said on social media. “The pedestrian is deceased and [was] not believed to be an employee of the airport. … We are extremely saddened by this incident and express our sympathies to those…

DENVER — A Frontier Airlines plane hit a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during takeoff, airport authorities said, sparking an engine fire and forcing passengers to evacuate. The plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday,” the airport’s official X account wrote. Neither the airport nor the airline has disclosed the pedestrian’s condition. “We’re stopping on the runway,” the pilot tells the control tower, according to the site ATC.com. “We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire.” The pilot…