It looks like victims are saying screw the WannaCry hackers..and refusing to pay the ransoms. The New York Times is reporting that despite a week of disruption, an online tracking system showed that the amount sent in the electronic currency Bitcoin to accounts listed by the attackers had reached about $90,000 as of this afternoon in Europe. Early estimates of what the virus could ultimately earn have ranged into the tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Trump Administration is cutting almost one-billion dollars from federal funding for California’s high-speed rail.
http://images.tritondigitalcms.com/6616/sites/320/2019/05/16144006/Rail-Cash-V1-KT.mp3 By Kevin Tripp, KABC The US Department of Transportation says they’re cutting the funds because California is failing to make progress on the project. They’re halting a 929-million dollar grant that’s part of a 2010 agreement. Governor Gavin Newsom says the decision is illegal. The Trump Administration is also considering asking California to…… Continue Reading
Alabama governor signs nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion bill into law.
By Caroline Kelly, CNN Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed into law a controversial abortion bill that could punish doctors who perform abortions with life in prison. “Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, a bill that was approved by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the Legislature,” said Ivey,…… Continue Reading
SF journalist’s home raided over confidential source
Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody found himself the target of San Francisco police after he refused to identify a confidential source in the death of the city’s longtime public defender, Jeff Adachi. “They seized 55 items from my home while they were in the process of searching my home,” Carmody said on 790 KABC’s The Morning…… Continue Reading
A woman played dead to save herself from attacker on Appalachian Trail
By Emanuella Grinberg and Chuck Johnston, CNN A woman played dead so she could fend off a knife-wielding man accused of killing a hiker and threatening others in two separate incidents along the Appalachian Trail, according to law enforcement. The woman trekked six miles through a stretch of the trail in southwestern Virginia to report…… Continue Reading
Not-So-Happy Mother’s Day
Just in time for Mother’s Day, here are some stories making the news this week of some bad Mom’s & some bad kids getting in trouble.… Continue Reading
