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WHEN TWITTER BANNED Donald Trump and a slew of other far-right users in January, many of them became digital refugees, migrating to sites like Parler and Gab to find a home that wouldn't moderate their hate speech and disinformation. Days later, Parler was hacked and then dropped by Amazon web hosting, knocking the site offline. Now Gab, which inherited some of Parler's displaced users, has been badly hacked too. An enormous trove of its contents has been stolen—including what appears to be passwords and private communications. On Sunday night the WikiLeaks-style group Distributed Denial of Secrets is revealing what it calls calling “GabLeaks,” a collection of more than 70 gigabytes of Gab data representing more than 40 million posts. DDoSecrets says a hacktivist who self-identifies as "JaXpArO and My Little Anonymous Revival Project" siphoned that data out of Gab's backend databases in an effort to expose the platform's largely rightwing users. Those Gab patrons, whose numbers...

Julia Roberts says there's "no one more deserving" of being honored for his work than Anthony Fauci. "You've been tireless and true for all of us and I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart," the "Pretty Woman" actress says while presenting the nation's top infectious diseases expert with amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research's Award of Courage. People on Thursday was first to report details of the organization's virtual event, scheduled to be seen on March 4. Roberts, 53, heaps praise on Fauci and his work fighting AIDS amid the coronavirus pandemic, telling him, "You have been a beacon for us." "Thank you so much Julia, those are such very kind words. I really do appreciate them. Coming from you, that really means a lot to me," Fauci, 80, replies. Saying while it's nice to be recognized, Fauci notes he wants to "make sure that we tip our hat" to COVID-19's unsung heroes, including health care workers who "very bravely, every day put their lives and safety on...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki blamed former President Donald Trump’s administration Thursday for the growing migrant crisis on the Southern border. “We’re in the circumstance we’re in because not only was their approach inhumane, it was ineffective,” Psaki told reporters during her daily press briefing. <p><img src= ” data-mce-resize=”false” data-mce-placeholder=”1″ alt=”” data-mce-src=”https://www.breitbart.com/wp-content/plugins/jw-video-editor-preview/img/play6.png” data-mce-style=”background: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65),rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.65)),url(‘https://content.jwplatform.com/thumbs/wTnGAKoj-720.jpg’);”> The left has condemned President Joe Biden for reopening detention camps for the surge of unaccompanied migrants at the Southern border after the president restored “catch and release” policies. Since Biden won the 2020 election, a surge of unaccompanied minors has been apprehended at the border. In January alone, Customs and Border Protection took almost...

he U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act in a 224-206 vote Thursday to protect LGBTQ Americans from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, though the legislation will not be able to pass the Senate without greater Republican support. The Equality Act would amend federal law, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Fair Housing Act, to explicitly include anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans. Though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of employment protections for LGBTQ people in June and President Joe Biden directed federal agencies to use that ruling as a basis to prohibit discrimination in other areas in an executive order, the Human Rights Campaign notes without the Equality Act, “a future administration may refuse to interpret the law this way, leaving these protections vulnerable.” The legislation would also expand anti-discrimination protections to include all federally funded programs and public spaces and...

WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday carried out an airstrike in eastern Syria against structures belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militias responsible for recent attacks against American and allied personnel in Iraq. The strikes were authorized by President Biden in response to the recent attacks in Iraq and to continuing threats to American and coalition personnel, said John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, who spoke with reporters traveling with Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III in California. A rocket attack on the airport in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil this month killed a civilian contractor with the American-led military coalition and wounded six others, including a U.S. service member and four American contractors. American officials said the military response was essentially a tiny demonstration strike: one bomb dropped on a small cluster of buildings on the Syria-Iraq border used to transit militia fighters and weaponry in and out of...

For the first time, scientists have cloned an endangered U.S. species: a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann, whose donor has been dead for more than 30 years. After the original ferret, Willa, died in 1988, scientists froze her body to preserve her genetic material, hoping to someday perform an experiment like this. While a domesticated ferret carried the cloned embryo, the new ferret, who is being raised at a Fish and Wildlife Service black-footed ferret breeding facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, is still very wild, with all the instincts and aggression that suggests. This is a fresh success story for the black-footed ferret, which has become emblematic of how well conservation and repopulation efforts can work. First, scientists thought the ferret was extinct, after frustrated ranchers poisoned almost all of the animals in the wild. Then, the population grew from a group of just a few, so there are about 1,000 wild black ferrets today—plus populations in wildlife...