Hardware and software manufacturers including Apple and Microsoftbegan pushing out patches that protected against attacks making use of the flaw.
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Iran blocks messaging app used by protesters to share info about demonstrations
The messaging app Telegram has been criticized by U.S. officials for offering a way for terrorists to communicate secretly.
Pope likens Mary and Joseph to modern-day migrants
At Christmas Eve Mass, Pope Francis advised to turn fear of migrants into the power of charity.
Miss America CEO Sam Haskell suspended over offensive emails
Suspended CEO Sam Haskell calls the reporting around his offensive emails about winners Mallory Hagan, Kate Shindle and Gretchen Carlson “dishonest, deceptive, and despicable.”
Ranked: The 50 biggest songs of 2017
USA TODAY looked at the biggest tracks released in 2017, by sales and streaming numbers, to see which have staying power.
What is Boxing Day and why that weird name?
Back at work on the day after Christmas? Your Canadian neighbors likely won’t be.
Oprah Winfrey alerts fans to financial scam: ‘Don’t believe it’
Oprah Winfreywarned her social media followers of “a fraud” Thursday.
Package theft hits nearly one-third of Americans. Is video surveillance the answer?
More than half of Americans say they know someone who’s had a package stolen from outside their home, and 30%say they’ve experienced it themselves.
Bows, glitter, ribbon are not recyclable. Here’s how to recycle your Christmas wrapping paper
China has set strict new limits on the contamination it allows in the mixed paper bales American trash companies ship there for recycling.
Civil rights chronicler Simeon Booker dies at 99
Simeon Booker, a longtime chronicler of the civil rights movement and the first full-time African-American reporter for The Washington Post, died Sunday.