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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has released a detailed report on Russia's efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election by hacking American political sites and email accounts. The report released Thursday by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI says Russian intelligence services were involved in "an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the U.S. government and its citizens." Russian officials have denied any involvement in the hacking.
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obama has sanctioned Russia's civilian and military intelligence services. The sanctions were announced Thursday as a report by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI was released that detailed Russia's efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election by hacking U.S. political sites and email accounts. The sanctions are the administration's first use of a 2015 executive order for combatting cyberattacks.
NEW YORK (AP) — The New Year's Eve celebration on Times Square will be a place of heightened security. Officials say they don't want to see a deadly truck-driving attack like the ones in Germany and France. Officials will have massive 20-ton sanitation trucks and about 100 patrol cars surrounding the site. And there'll also be some 7,000 officers on the scene, including specially armed counterterrorism units and bomb-sniffing dogs.
GRANBY, Colo. (AP) — A woman is dead and her two young daughters are injured after falling from a chairlift at a small Colorado ski area. The 40-year-old Texas mother and the girls, ages 9 and 12, fell 20 feet Thursday from a four-person lift onto snow at Ski Granby Ranch, a 400-acre family-oriented resort about 90 miles west of Denver.
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — A fire at a mobile home in Southern California has killed a 5-year-old girl and left an 11-year-old boy in critical condition. Seven other family members were injured when the blaze broke out shortly after midnight Thursday in Escondido. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that some people were trapped inside and others got out through the home's windows.
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