Friday, Sep 22nd
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Domestic Glance
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal agencies and departments to stop using software produced by Russian firm Kaspersky Lab, citing potential risks to U.S. national security.
The department says it's concerned about ties between certain Kaspersky employees and the Russian government.
Elaine Duke, the department’s acting secretary, issued a binding operational directive on Wednesday ordering federal executive bodies to identify any Kaspersky cybersecurity products on their information systems within the next 30 days and come up with “detailed plans” to remove the security software.
One student was killed and up to five other people were injured in a shooting Wednesday morning at Freeman High School south of Spokane.
“The shooter is in the back seat of a patrol car right now,” Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said at the scene, where students, parents and teachers had been corralled into school buildings after the shots rang out shortly after 10 a.m.
Police have evacuated several people from a Hollywood nursing home, where at least five people have died.
According to Hollywood Fire Rescue and Police, 115 people were evacuated Wednesday morning at The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, located at 1200 N 35 Ave., due to intense heat and no power. Broward County Mayor Barbara Sharief confirmed five people have died, but it remains unknown whether the deaths are related to the heat.
The mayor added that three deaths occurred at the nursing home, and three deaths were pronounced on arrival at a nearby hospital.
Her passing was announced by her wife, Judith Kasen-Windsor, and lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who did not offer a cause of death.
The 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Windsor, which struck down the core of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, was credited with laying the groundwork for the court’s 2015 ruling in another case that legalized same-sex marriage.
New Hampshire's Supreme Court has blocked recent changes to the state's voting laws that would have exposed some first-time voters to a fine or jail time if they failed to submit residence paperwork within 10 days of registering.
New Hampshire Supreme Court Presiding Justice Charles Temple granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday against part of the law signed into law by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu in July and known as State Bill 3.
About 400 miles north of where Hurricane Irma first made landfall in South Florida, the coastal city of Jacksonville is being swallowed by water, with heavy rains and a record storm surge turning streets into churning rivers and wind-whipped waves crashing through windows.
The city government issued a flash flood emergency Monday morning, ordering people to go inside and stay there. Mayor Lenny Curry tweeted images of rescue crews heading out in boats. The local sheriff's office asked people to put white flags outside their homes to signal for help.
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