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True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht and election data security analyst, Gregg Phillips, were previously in contempt of court and placed in jail for failing to outline the participants in a 2020 hotel discussion that revealed the Konnech election data compromise that was transmitted to Chinese networks. {Go Deep} Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested for exploiting access to U.S. election data, including election worker information, and transferring the files to China. Eugene Yu and Konnech sued True the Vote and are using the U.S. civil judicial system to find out who told the FBI about the Chinese data harvesting...

An environmental activist who pled guilty this month to poaching elk during a November hunting trip will resign his position as the Idaho director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Marv Hoyt, a leading critic of mining activities on the health of sheep and cattle, killed three elk and left the carcasses of two behind to rot in the field. Hoyt had only one tag for one elk, and initially denied to fish and game officers he had killed the other two cows and tried to hide the carcasses with tree branches. Although the protection of elk is a central goal...

When Dick Cheney assailed President Obama’s plan to close the prison at Guantánamo last month, he used ammunition plucked right from that morning’s [NY]Times. The front-page headline that day, May 21, read: “1 in 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds.” The article reported in the first paragraph that an unreleased Pentagon study had concluded that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from Guantánamo had “returned to terrorism or militant activity.” It was big news on a morning when Obama and Cheney would deliver dueling visions of how to keep the nation safe. “One in seven...

Here’s a little game for you on this post-holiday Tuesday. See if you can identify which phrases, taken from New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt’s column this weekend, describe Times journalists—and which describe bloggers. 1. “those outside” A. bloggers B. Times journalists 2. “ready to pounce on transgressions by Times journalists” A. bloggers B. Times journalists 3. “aflame with charges of plagiarism” A. bloggers B. Times journalists 4. “burned to illuminate a national crisis through his personal experience” A. bloggers B. Times journalists 5. “the star columnist” A. bloggers B. Times journalists 6. “roughed up” A. bloggers B. Times...

SOME FAMILY MAN: Asse Sam Hoyt ALBANY - A married assemblyman got caught with his virtual pants down - busted by XXX-rated e-mails to a 19-year-old intern.....In one sex message Hoyt made it embarrassingly clear they shared not only an interest in the people's business, but in lusty sex and personal hygiene. Titled "what i wish," the Democratic assemblyman's list included: ". . . that i could be painting your toenails right now . . . that i could see you do that little cheerleader move . . . that i could be your human lollipop . . ....

A touching story about a father and his son. Twenty years ago Rick Hoyt ran a 5k while pushing his disabled son in a wheelchair. After the race his son told him that while racing he did not feel disabled. They have since competed in over a hundred triathlons and marathons together.

Sharon Cantillon/Buffalo News The H.H. Richardson complex will be transformed under a measure passed by the State Legislature. ALBANY - The historic but crumbling H.H. Richardson complex in Buffalo will be rehabilitated into a facility for educational and cultural activities under a state budget plan legislators agreed to Tuesday. The $100 million renovation also would include about $20 million for a new home for the Burchfield-Penney Art Center on the grounds of the Richardson complex at Buffalo Psychiatric Center near Buffalo State College, lawmakers said. The funding is part of a massive, five-year borrowing plan for public colleges across...

TAHOE CITY, Calif. - The son of late folk and country singer Hoyt Axton was arrested on suspicion of trying to kidnap a 9-year-old girl at Lake Tahoe, authorities said. Placer County sheriff's deputies said Michael Axton, 39, of Tahoe City, allegedly tried to abduct the girl during a July 29 outing with her family on the Truckee River. He's accused of kneeling down beside her and grabbing her after she floated on an inner tube 40 to 50 yards down river. The girl screamed and ran back to her family, deputies said. Hoyt Axton, who died in 1999, wrote...