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White Supremacists Share Bomb-Making Materials in Online Chats

Neo-Nazi and White Supremacist groups gather in Shelbyville, Tennessee on October 28, 2017.Wes Bruer/ZUMA This story originally appeared on ProPublica. Right-wing extremists communicating in confidential online chats in recent months have shared scores of documents detailing the manufacture and use of bombs, grenades, mines and other incendiary devices. The documents, which range from instructions on…

Hackers Are Stealing Sensitive Student Data—And Schools are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Get it Back

FOTOKITA/iStock/GettyImages Earlier this month, students and parents in Johnston, Iowa, received a barrage of threatening text messages. “I’m going to kill some kids at your son’s high school,” one said, according to KCCI, a local Des Moines news outlet. The threats eventually caused the school district to shut schools for a day. And just last month, students and parents around…