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Thom Browne closes out NY Fashion Week with a black-and-white flourish and a nod to Edgar Allan Poe 02/14/2024 11:35pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Thom Browne, ever the master showman of American fashion, closed out New York Fashion Week on a blustery day with his own wintry landscape, blanketing the floor with fake snow and presenting his latest inventive designs to the words of Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling “The Raven.” Flowers, chocolates and flash mobs: Valentine's Day celebrations around the world 02/14/2024 05:33pm • Flowers, chocolates, handwritten cards — and flash mobs. People around the world expressed their love in myriad ways on Valentine's Day: hanging hundreds of paper hearts in the streets to honor a recently deceased “Valentine's Day Bandit" in Portland, Maine; vowing to cherish and obey democracy Threats to federal judges have more than doubled in 'alarming' spike, US Marshals director says 02/14/2024 05:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of threats targeting federal judges has more than doubled over the last three years amid a surge in violent and harassing messages directed at public officials around the U.S., the head of the U.S. Marshals said in congressional testimony Wednesday. Threats to prosecut Republican Michigan elector testifies he never intended to make false public record 02/14/2024 04:51pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election testified Wednesday that he did not know how the electoral process worked and never intended to make a false public record. “We were told this was an appropriate proce Hoax bomb threats, fire alarms will now come with a price tag in Alexandria 02/14/2024 11:20am • People in Alexandria, Virginia, who call in hoax active shooters and fake bomb threats will now be footed with the bill for the police response. The Alexandria City Council passed an ordinance on Tuesday that would seek reimbursement for the cost of responding to "swatting" incidents. "The Cit 24 investigated in Italy for promoting fascism at a gathering in Ferrara's Jewish quarter 02/14/2024 09:58am • MILAN (AP) — Italian police on Wednesday raided the homes of 24 people under investigation for promoting fascism during a gathering at a restaurant in the Jewish quarter of Ferrara during which they lauded dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. The suspects were all residents of the northern TikTok prepares to combat misinfo, AI fakes and influence ops ahead of European Union election 02/14/2024 06:34am • LONDON (AP) — TikTok is taking measures to combat misinformation about the upcoming European Union elections, including setting up fact-checking hubs inside the app, the video-sharing platform said Wednesday in a blog post. TikTok plans to launch local language in-app “election centers” next Putin signs law to confiscate assets of those convicted of discrediting the Russian army 02/14/2024 06:32am • Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law Wednesday that will allow authorities to confiscate money, valuables and other assets from people convicted of spreading “deliberately false information” about the country's military. The bill sailed through the lower and upper houses of the Russian Manjon's desperate shot attempt finds bottom of basket and Vandy sinks Texas A&M 74-73 02/13/2024 10:16pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ezra Manjon scored 19 points and his last field goal of the night came at the buzzer to send Vanderbilt to a thrilling 74-73 win over Texas A&M on Tuesday night. The game featured 21 lead changes and neither team led by more than four points. Vanderbilt (7-17, 2-9 SEC) Fake Michigan Certificate of Votes mailed to U.S. Senate after 2020 presidential vote, official says 02/13/2024 04:30pm • A fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election, an official testified Tuesday during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and other charges for allegedly serving as false electors. The “purported” Certificate of Votes Germany's top security official wants easier ways to track right-wing extremist financing 02/13/2024 07:41am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany's top security official said Tuesday that she aims to make it easier to trace right-wing extremists' financing and plans to set up an “early recognition unit” to detect far-right and foreign disinformation campaigns as early as possible. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser's p France accuses Russia of a disinformation campaign in a key election year 02/12/2024 07:27pm • PARIS (AP) — France condemned “hostile” disinformation maneuvers after the country's authorities on Monday accused Russia of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign against Ukraine’s Western backers, in the lead up to the second anniversary of Moscow’s military invasion of it Mexican police arrest members of drug gang behind the alleged killing of 8 people in Cancun 02/12/2024 03:39pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Prosecutors said Monday they have arrested six members of a drug gang in the Mexican resort of Cancun that allegedly killed and hacked up five people with a machete, and dumped three other victims in a shallow grave. The gang, which prosecutors say also engaged in extortion, was 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan experiences third Super Bowl heartbreak 02/12/2024 12:48am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Coach Kyle Shanahan's third trip to the Super Bowl ended up just like his first two — a major disappointment after another blown late lead. The San Francisco 49ers coach has developed an offense that teams around the league try to mimic and has a vast coaching tree that makes hi Youngster with server to 'rival the National Security Agency' pleads guilty to Northern Va. swatting incidents 02/11/2024 08:57am • A juvenile has pleaded guilty to "numerous" swatting incidents in Stafford County, Virginia, last year with what the sheriff's office called "a server we imagine would rival the National Security Agency." A "swatting" incident is one in which a person makes a fake call to a 911 center in order to