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Voter turnout in 2024 New Hampshire GOP primary eclipses record
Read full article: Voter turnout in 2024 New Hampshire GOP primary eclipses recordMore people cast votes in Tuesday’s contest between former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley than in any previous presidential primary of either party in New Hampshire’s history.
400 years on, Mayflower's legacy includes pride, prejudice
Read full article: 400 years on, Mayflower's legacy includes pride, prejudiceAnnawon Weeden, 46, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, sits for a portrait outside his home in Oakdale, Conn., Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The soul-searching extends across the Atlantic to England, where Mayflower descendants say they, too, are trying to reconcile pride and prejudice. When the Pilgrims arrived at what we now know as Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Wampanoag tribe helped the exhausted settlers survive their first winter. But Native Americans also endured racism, oppression and new diseases brought by the European settlers. “It’s opening up everyone else’s eyes to how unbalanced the world is and unequal,” said Troy Currence, Hazel Harding Currence's son and a medicine man from the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe.
Georgia troopers back to using paper after ransomware attack
Read full article: Georgia troopers back to using paper after ransomware attackAP photo/David GoldmanKINGSLAND, Ga. - A ransomware attack late last week left the Georgia Department of Public Safety and Georgia State Patrol computers offline. The GSP's tech division, the Georgia Tech Authority, which handles network and serves, is now checking every device in all 52 state patrol post locations across the state to see if more devices are affected. Hamer said the attack is an inconvenience to the troopers and it has a financial impact on the state since it doesn't have access to its systems. The state said Georgia Tech Authority is downloading new protective software on all devices, which are purposely offline until further notice. "This ransomware attack has certainly caused DPS to revert to a more traditional way of dispatching and patrolling.