Global operation brings down hackers leaked data market

WASHINGTON (AP) — Western law enforcement agencies have dismantled an online marketplace that bought and sold hacked and stolen personal information from millions of people and charged the platform’s founder and chief administrator, officials said Tuesday. Authorities say the RaidForums website was trafficked with hundreds of databases of sensitive data, including credit card and social … Read more

Japan’s Honda outlines strategy to push electric vehicles

TOKYO (AP) — Honda will invest 5 trillion yen ($40 billion) in research over the next decade, particularly to realize a large-scale shift to green electric vehicles, the Japanese automaker said Tuesday. Products and services at the plants will account for more than half of the 8 trillion yen ($64 billion) research and development budget … Read more

Farms, fish on the arid California-Oregon border see little water

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Farms that depend on irrigation from a depleted, state-managed lake on the California-Oregon border and a Native American tribe fighting to protect fragile salmon will both receive extremely limited amounts of water this summer, a historic one Drought and record-low reservoir levels drag on across the western United States. More than … Read more

Russia’s war to shrink Ukraine’s economy by 45%, World Bank says

LONDON (AP) – The World Bank says Ukraine’s economy will shrink by 45.1% this year because Russia’s invasion has shut down half of the country’s businesses, choked off imports and exports and damaged a vast amount of critical infrastructure. Meanwhile, unprecedented financial and export sanctions imposed by Western allies in response to the war are … Read more

Elon Musk will no longer join Twitter’s board of directors

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Tesla CEO Elon Musk will not join Twitter’s board of directors as previously announced. The stormy billionaire remains Twitter’s largest shareholder. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted the news, which followed a weekend of Musk tweets suggesting possible changes to Twitter, including making the site ad-free. Almost 90% of Twitter’s 2021 revenue … Read more