Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Deluxe Editions of HEATED RIVALRY Series Plus a New Cover First things first: let me just say that the series isn’t technically called “Heated Rivalry,” it’s actually called Game Changers—Heated Rivalry is the second book
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Ravie LakshmananMay 15, 2026Botnet / Threat Intelligence The Russian state-sponsored hacking group known as Turla has transformed its custom backdoor Kazuar into a modular peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that’s engineered for stealth and persistent access to compromised hosts. Turla, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), is assessed to be affiliated with Center 16
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(L to R) Lisa Edelstein and ‘Long Story Short’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Currently streaming on Netflix is the first season of the animated series ‘Long Story Short‘, which was created by showrunner and executive producer Raphael Bob-Waksberg (‘BoJack Horseman’). Air Date: August 22nd, 2025 The series features the voices of Ben Feldman (‘Cloverfield’), Angelique Cabral
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Texas Children’s Hospital also ordered to pay $10 million following state’s investigation into those “victimized by twisted, morally bankrupt transgender ideology” A Houston, Texas hospital has been ordered to open the nation’s first “detransition clinic” as part of a settlement with the state over giving children transgender treatment. Texas Children’s Hospital must also pay the
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President Donald Trump speaks during a law enforcement leaders dinner celebrating the start of National Police Week in the Rose Garden at The White House in Washington, May 11, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars — including large purchases
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President Donald Trump on Friday said he refused to directly answer Chinese President Xi Jinping when asked if the United States would defend Taiwan if China attacked it. “That question was asked to me today,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as they flew back to the United States from a two-day summit in
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Donald Trump really wants to grift $1 billion from the American taxpayers to pay for his ballroom. PoliticusUSA is 100% unfilitered Independent news. Support us by becoming a subscriber. NOTUS noted that the White House is pressuring Senators to vote for the ballroom money, “The White House’s pressure campaign is accelerating before the Senate presents
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This spring marks five years of escalating attacks on books and libraries in America. Throughout 2026, organizations across the spectrum will be marking this anniversary, both to emphasize how long and complex this battle has been and to champion and celebrate the work being done to protect equitable access to books and libraries. Let’s begin,
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The former General Motors headquarters inside the Renaissance Center in Detroit, April 15, 2024. Jeff Kowalsky | Bloomberg | Getty Images DETROIT — As artificial intelligence expands, it threatens to exacerbate a growing trend for America’s largest automakers: the elimination of white-collar workers. The “Detroit Three” automakers have together cut more than 20,000 U.S. salaried
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The Hacker NewsMay 15, 2026Endpoint Security / Threat Detection In Your Biggest Security Risk Isn’t Malware — It’s What You Already Trust, we made a simple argument: the most dangerous activity inside most organizations no longer looks like an attack. It looks like administration. PowerShell, WMIC, netsh, Certutil, MSBuild — the same trusted utilities your
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