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The website of the Texas Republican Party was hacked Saturday by a group that claimed to be protesting the state’s newly enacted abortion law, according to reports.

Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals : Denmark-based Corti, a SaaS startup using AI to help health professionals improve patient consultations on phone or video in real time, raises $27M Series A   —  Copenhagen-based Corti.ai, a healthtech SaaS startup that helps emergency departments to detect critical illnesses like cardiac arrest in real-time …

Lori Loughlin was spotted all smiles while out to dinner with friends Thursday in Los Angeles. The "Fuller House" star and her husband have kept a low profile since getting entangled in the college admissions scandal.

A student senator at Washington University in St. Louis is being accused of stealing American flags from a 9/11 memorial display and throwing them in the trash.

Celebrities took to social media Saturday to show that the victims of the 9/11 attacks have not been forgotten 20 years later.

Alan Jackson opened up about the inspiration behind his 9/11 tribute song "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)." The country music star said he still plays the song at his shows 20 years later because he feels like the fans still connect to it.

Harrison Fields was only five-years-old when his mother, a NYPD detective serving in the Medical Examiner’s office, responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, an event that has left him and many others with a “feeling of fear” 20 years later.

Toby Keith encouraged Americans to never apologize for being patriotic as he honored the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees shows the shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration, threatening productivity and long-term innovation   —  A new study finds that Microsoft's companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside …

Police in Washington, D.C. have detained an individual reportedly in a suspicious vehicle near the Tidal Basin on the National Mall.

President Biden on Saturday again defended the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, arguing that the vast majority of Americans wanted to get out -- and asking "How else could you get out?"

Thousands of American flags lined Art Hill in St. Louis' famed Forest Park, "one for each First Responder and Hero Solider lost in theater in the War on Terror."

Bloomberg : Sources: US officials are considering a Financial Stability Oversight Council review into whether Tether and other stablecoins threaten financial stability   —  - Treasury, other agencies consider launching FSOC examination  — Tokens' fast growth has triggered anxieties among regulators

Financial Times : Number of UK unicorns grew 10x in the last decade, with invested capital growing from €1B/year to €13B/year, but some worry Brexit will counteract the change   —  A decade ago, Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Kaarmann stood before prospective investors at Seedcamp, a start-up event in London, and set fire to a £50 note.

Former President Trump on Saturday hinted that he might run for president again in 2024.

Simon Parkin / The Guardian : How FBI and Australian police built and marketed the An0m chat service for criminals, which cost $1,700 for a handset and $1,250 for an annual subscription   —  Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld.  There was just one problem …

Arizona Republicans are calling for answers from the Biden administration amid a report that it has lost contact with one in three unaccompanied migrant children released to sponsors.

The video features veteran Republican Reps. Michael Waltz and Brian Mast of Florida alongside Texas Reps. Ronny Jackson, Jake Ellzey, and Tony Gonzales.

To mark 20 years since the 9/11 terror attacks, President Biden will address the nation and visit NYC, the Pentagon, and the memorial outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Second Amendment supporters are expressing concern over President Biden’s move Thursday forcing large employers to vaccinate their employees, fearing that the logic behind the federal edict could be applied to confiscating guns or drastically limiting gun rights. 

Davey Alba / New York Times : Facebook says data it provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed   —  More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted with posts …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Epic ruling is a win for Apple as it costs the company just a few billion annually and doesn't force Apple to change its fees or let 3rd-party app stores on iOS   —  - Judge says all apps can bypass the company's purchase fees  — Apple makes majority of its App Store revenue from games

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey was not well-received at a recent star-studded U.K. awards show. A clip from the interview was booed by audience members.

The “American Pie” singer, 75, revealed that he cut off his daughter, Jackie McLean, financially after she gave a tell-all interview accusing him of mental and emotional abuse.

One day after a state judge ruled against a ban on school mask policies, a Florida court has reinstated the stay, preventing rules requiring face coverings from being implemented in schools across the state.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dismissed a question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy on why American businesses with 100 or more employees are required to vaccinate workers but migrants at the southern border are not required to vaccinate.

Despite reports that Americans and Afghan allies are being blocked by the Taliban, the White House is saying it is merely "up to Americans" to choose to take the government's options to evacuate.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be have favorable odds ahead of the state's recall election next week, according to a poll released Friday.

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley called on Department of Labor Secretary Martin Walsh in a Friday letter to block an order by President Biden that would allow for a sweeping vaccine mandate.

Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Toronto-based Cohere, founded by two ex-Google Brain team members to commercialize natural language AI models, raises $40M Series A led by Index Ventures   —  The ability of computers to understand and generate language took a huge leap forward in 2017 when researchers at Google developed …

Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and more are nominated for awards at the 2021 MTV VMAs.

The 20-year-old model, who walked in her first show this week, is getting back to work on the runway after her breakup with the reality TV star.

The U.S. has halted all U.S.-bound flights of Afghan evacuees from two main bases overseas for unspecified “health safety concerns,” a move U.S. officials warn will have a severe impact on the evacuation operation, according to a U.S. government document seen Friday by The Associated Press.

A Florida businessman who gained notoriety for helping Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information on Joe Biden in Ukraine pleaded guilty Friday to a charge alleging he facilitated illegal foreign campaign contributions in an effort to build a marijuana business in the U.S.

Washington, DC’s delegate to Congress, Democrat Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, bizarrely denied letting five zebras loose from a private zoo into the city’s suburbs.

Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Sonos says it is raising prices for a majority of its product range amid the supply chain crunch   —  Its devices will cost from $10 to $100 more  —  Sonos has announced that many of its speakers will be getting a price increase, ranging from $10 more for its portable Roam, to $100 more for its Arc soundbar.

The comedian underwent surgery last month to have half her left lung removed and said doctors are "very optimistic" about her recovery.

She was an unsuspecting radio station intern in 2003 when she pursued what she thought would be a career-making interview with a R&B superstar — R. Kelly.

Annie Palmer / CNBC : Affirm beats in Q4 with $261.8M, up 71% YoY, vs. estimates of $225M, with 7.1M active customers, up from 5.4M in the previous quarter; stock up more than 20%   —  - Affirm reported better-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter after the bell Thursday and gave strong guidance for the current quarter.

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE : Report: since 2004, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter have earned $43.8B in contracts with the Pentagon, mostly in relation to the War on Terror   —  A team of researchers have published a new report detailing how Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter have profited from the global campaign of violence.