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Beaver Medical Group Files Notice of Data Breach Leaking Patient’s PHI
On March 8, 2023, Beaver Medical Group (“BMG”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of California after discovering that a successful email phishing attack provided an unauthorized party with access to files containing confidential patient information. Based on the company’s official filing, the incident resulted in an unauthorized party gaining access…
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True Liberation Eludes Kherson as Russian Shelling Intensifies in Ukraine
Months after Ukrainian forces pushed out Russian occupiers, the city of Kherson remains very much a war zone.
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Flood of Russians Alters Life for Countries That Took Them In
Russians, fleeing their country and its war, have quickly reshaped the societies of nations like Georgia and Armenia.
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Cyclone Freddy Leaves Nearly 200 Dead in Malawi
The record-breaking storm barreled across southeastern Africa into landlocked Malawi, where rescue workers searched for survivors as rain kept falling.
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Who Was Leonardo’s Mother? A Novelist Has Evidence She Was Enslaved.
An author has a theory that the artist’s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.
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An Oil Rush Threatens Natural Splendors Across East Africa
A multibillion-dollar oil drilling and pipeline project is displacing thousands of people in Uganda and Tanzania, and ravaging pristine habitats. Environmentalists are fighting to stop it, but the governments are all in.
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The Lucas Museum Finds Your Lack of Faith Disturbing
George Lucas’s billion-dollar museum, which has faced delays, is finally coming into focus in Los Angeles. Officials say it should be fully operational by 2025.
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Back to the Drive-in
The drive-in theater was a staple of post-World War II American life, especially teenage life. It even showed up in horror films where teenagers necking in their cars by the flickering light of movie screens were menaced by monsters and aliens. The drive-in was on the decline for many decades, but had a brief resurgence during the coronavirus…
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Oscars 2023: What It’s Like to Attend Hollywood’s Biggest Night
“This is a good show,” Guillermo del Toro told me inside the Dolby Theater, holding the third Oscar of his career, which he won alongside collaborators Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, and Alexander Bulkley for the masterful stop-motion animation “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.” “You know, it’s dignified, no stupid jokes or anything,” he jubilantly added, sharing my…
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SXSW 2023: If You Were the Last, Upon Entry, Scrambled
“If You Were the Last” grabs two photogenic stars, Zoe Chao and Anthony Mackie, puts them into space, and presents them as cozy and appealing as they can possibly be. Their characters are astronauts in a NASA shuttle that has been floating through space for over 1,000 days with no successful communication. A question lingers between…
