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| U.S. succeeds in cracking Apple's iPhone, drops legal action | | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:05 AM | |
|  By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it had succeeded in unlocking an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters and dropped its legal case against Apple, ending a high-stakes legal battle but leaving the broader struggle over encryption unresolved. The abrupt end to a confrontation that had transfixed the tech industry was a victory for Apple, which vehemently opposed a court order obtained by the Justice Department that would have required it to write new software to get into the iPhone. At issue in the Apple case was a county-owned iPhone used by Rizwan Farook, one of the husband-and-wife shooters in the December rampage in San Bernardino, California, in which 14 people were killed and 22 wounded.
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| The SAT test - Frequently Asked Questions | | Tuesday, March 29, 2016 12:04 AM | |
| | A: The College Board, the organization that owns the SAT, told Reuters that it will reuse portions of tests overseas at some point after those tests have been given in North America. Q: Has the College Board recycled tests in America, too? A: Sometimes the College Board recycles one or more sections of tests. |
| Secret Service closed White House fence lines during Capitol shooting | |  The Secret Service temporarily closed the north and south fence lines around the White House complex on Monday as a "routine precautionary measure" a spokesman said, as police reported gunshots were fired at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center. A report that a person tried to gain entry to the White House was incorrect, the U.S. Secret Service spokesman said.
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| Brazil party set to abandon Rousseff, making impeachment more likely | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's largest party will decide on Tuesday to break away from President Dilma Rousseff's floundering coalition, party leaders said, sharply raising the odds that the country's first woman president will be impeached amid a corruption scandal. The fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) will decide at its national leadership meeting on the pace of disengagement from the Rousseff administration, in which it holds seven ministerial posts and the vice presidency. A formal rupture appears inevitable and will increase the isolation of the unpopular Rousseff, freeing PMDB members to vote for her impeachment.
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| Special Report - How Asian test-prep companies exposed the new SAT | |  On the morning of Saturday, March 5, students gathered at test centres around the United States to take the SAT, the all-important college entrance exam. The day was momentous - not simply for the test-takers but also for the College Board, the not-for-profit that owns the exam. East Asian cram schools have repeatedly exploited that practice to breach the SAT, and the College Board has come to see the test-prep industry as a daunting adversary.
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| Man shot by police at U.S. Capitol complex | |  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A man walked into the underground U.S. Capitol Visitor Center on Monday and was shot and wounded by police after he pointed what appeared to be a weapon at officers, police said. The suspect and a female bystander, who suffered wounds, were taken to the hospital, Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa said at a news conference. No police officers were injured, Verderosa said.
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| Clinton warns of possible Trump Supreme Court nominations | |  Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton rebuked Senate Republicans on Monday for denying a hearing to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, accusing them of obstructionism, and warned of dangers if Donald Trump appointed the next justice. In a speech in Wisconsin, Clinton put the future of the Supreme Court at the centre of the election debate, cautioning that any Trump-appointed justices would be likely to roll back workers' and abortion rights and "demolish pillars of the progressive movement." "What kind of justice would a President Trump appoint, or for that matter what kind of attorney general?" she asked, noting the Republican front-runner wants a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country and the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.
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| U.S. drops legal action against Apple over encrypted iPhone | | By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department dropped a high-stakes legal fight against Apple on Monday, saying the government successfully accessed data stored on an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The government had insisted until last week it had no way to access the phone used by Rizwan Farook except to force Apple to write new software that would disable the password protection. The Justice Department obtained a court order last month directing Apple to create that software.
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| Brazil lawyers file new impeachment case against Rousseff | |  The Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) filed a new request on Monday for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for obstructing justice and granting international soccer body FIFA tax-exempt status during the 2014 World Cup. Rousseff supporters tried to physically block the entry of the impeachment request in the lower house of Congress, shouting the left-wing slogan "Não passaram!" (They shall not pass) and pushing and shoving opponents of the embattled president. Rousseff already faces an impeachment process over the alleged manipulation of government accounts that opposition parties maintain helped her win narrow re-election in 2014 by allowing her to boost public spending.
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| Week after attack, Belgium reopens wounds | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Manneken Pis, the cherubic little statue insouciantly relieving himself in the heart of Brussels, has become a cheeky symbol of Belgian resistance to terror in the week since suicide bombers struck the capital. "So it is really a shock to the nation." The government announced measures to combat the threat from local Muslims radicalised by Islamic State in Syria four months ago when it emerged November's attacks in Paris were the work of Brussels militants who had plotted undisturbed by underfunded and loosely coordinated authorities in laissez-faire Belgium. Ministers may find support for tougher action, such as closer surveillance of suspects: "A little bit of Brussels died in me this week," wrote Bart Eeckhout, a commentator in the city's left-leaning, Dutch-language newspaper, De Morgen.
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| Israeli law to allow suspension of Arab legislators passes first hurdle | | | By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's parliament gave initial approval on Monday to a bill that would allow members to suspend from the legislature colleagues whom they believe have supported Israel's enemies or have acted against the state. The proposal was strongly criticised by opposition members who said it was aimed against Israel's Arab lawmakers. Zouheir Bahloul, an Israel-Arab legislator from the centre-left Zionist Union faction, accused the right-wing ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "quietly stealing Arab members' right to a democratic discourse." Lawmakers voted 59-53 in favour of the bill, which now moves to committee but will become law only after two more votes at a later date. |
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