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Fired Cybersecurity Chief Responds After Trump Campaign Lawyer Says He Should Be Shot
Christopher Krebs, who was recently fired by President Donald Trump as the head of the federal government’s election cybersecurity efforts, suggested Tuesday that he might take legal action against one of Trump’s lawyers who said that Krebs should be shot.
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Trump's Firing of Top Election Security Official Is Like ‘Losing a General at the Battlefront,' Says R.I. Secretary of State
President Trump fired Chris Krebs, who headed election cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, on Tuesday after he debunked claims of fraud and hacking in the election. Nellie Gorbea, the Rhode Island secretary of state and an expert on election security, told LX News that his firing poses a danger to our country that goes beyond the election.
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Trump Fires Agency Head Who Vouched for 2020 Vote Security
President Donald Trump has fired the nation’s top election security official, a widely respected member of the administration who had dared to refute the president’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.
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Trump Tweets He's Fired Head of CISA
President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday he had terminated the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA).
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Broken Machines, Long Lines Among Voting Problems Across US
Voting machine glitches, long lines and misinformation were among the problems that voters faced at the polls on Tuesday. The cause of the problems ran the gamut from human error to threatened violence to technological errors to Mother Nature as storms pummeled several states in the South. The issues added more chaos to a bitterly fought election that will decide...
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City Council Speaker Calls for BOE Executive Director's Resignation Amid Widespread Voting Problems
Election Day got off to a rocky start for some across the tri-state area, with a number of voters reporting widespread issues at the polls — from broken scanners to missing names to locked doors, huge lines and mass confusion.
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NYC Voters Frustrated by Broken Machines and Long Lines
The lines to vote this Election Day have been the longest in recent memory, according to so many voters waiting in the lines across New York City. The wait’s been compounded by machine problems and the weather. Ida Siegal reports from Manhattan and John Chandler reports from Brooklyn.
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Poll Worker Accidentally Locks Self In at NYC School
You don’t normally see people breaking INTO educational buildings in New York.
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International Porn Site Kicks Off Free Leaf Removal Campaign in New York
An international website that bills itself as “the world’s leading free porn site” wants to help you get rid of your leaves for free this fall. Really. That’s it.
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Firefighters Break in to Voting Station
Firefighters were forced to break in to a Brooklyn polling station Tuesday. Credit: Twitter / @SwankyGT
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Trump, Obama Make Final Push as Dems Lead With 7-Point Edge
President Donald Trump and former president Barack Obama are making late-round appearances for candidates ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. Trump will campaign in Ohio, Indiana and Missouri, after riling up Republicans in Georgia and Tennessee on topics like the economy and immigration. Meanwhile, Obama is urging voters in Illinois and Indiana not to be distracted by false claims about migrants...
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States and Feds Unite on Election Security After 2016 Clashes
Weeks before the 2016 election, federal officials started making mysterious calls to the head of elections in Inyo County, California. They asked her to contact them if she noticed anything unusual. But they wouldn’t elaborate. “I asked them: ‘How am I going to be able to protect against it if I don’t know what it is?'” said the official, Kammi...
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US Suspects Cellphone Spying Devices in DC
For the first time, the U.S. government has publicly acknowledged the existence in Washington of what appear to be rogue devices that foreign spies and criminals could be using to track individual cellphones and intercept calls and messages. The use of what are known as cellphone-site simulators by foreign powers has long been a concern, but American intelligence and law...