Monthly Archives: August 2022

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace blasts restrictive abortion laws, saying they could hurt the GOP in the midterms

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina speaks to supporters at her election night event after defeating former state Rep. Katie Arrington in the 1st District GOP primary on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Meg Kinnard/Associated Press Rep. Nancy Mace said she thinks extreme abortion restrictions could hurt the GOP. Mace said…

How SOCOM’s secret ‘knife bomb’ became the prime weapon for killing hard-to-reach terrorists

US Army soldiers load an AGM-114 Hellfire onto an AH-64E Apache helicopter in northern Afghanistan, May 31, 2017. US Army The US killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a precision airstrike this month. The circumstances of the strike suggest the US used the R9X variant of its Hellfire missile. The R9X is basically a…

Liz Cheney says she favors serving with Democratic women with national security backgrounds over GOP lawmakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Cheney says she favors serving with national security-minded female Democrats over MTG and Boebert. The GOP lawmaker told the NYT she was well aware of the ideological differences the women tackle. “They are people that are trying to do the right thing for the country,” she…

Hackers might have figured out your secret Twitter accounts

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A security vulnerability on Twitter allowed a bad actor to find out the account names associated with certain email addresses and phone numbers (and yes, that could include your secret celebrity stan accounts), Twitter confirmed on Friday. Twitter initially patched the issue in January after receiving a report…

Procter & Gamble responds after TikTok user claims she found a mysterious object inside odd-looking tampon

Boxes of Tampax tampons. Richard Levine/Corbis via Getty Images. A TikTok user called out feminine care giant Tampax after finding a strange object inside a tampon. “My brain instantly said tracker,” one commenter said on the issue. “We want to reassure you this was an isolated issue,” P&G told Fox News in a statement. A…