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Almost half of US CDC databases due to be updated at least monthly were instead paused for significant time periods during 2025, the vast majority relating to vaccination-related topics, a new study ...

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

In 2025, CDC databases faced unexplained pauses, affecting public health decision-making and transparency, with vaccination data particularly impacted. Factors contributing to these pauses included ...

Last December, the U.S. Department of Justice released its first batch of files on disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among the thousands of images was one video clip, the ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and computer-generated crystals. The issue raises questions about curation practices at ...

Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged two Virginia brothers arrested on Wednesday with allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive information and destroy government databases after being fired from their jobs as ...

Two Virginia twin brothers were arrested for their alleged roles in deleting government databases hosted by a federal government contractor, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. Muneeb and ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday threatened to withhold SNAP funding from states that don't provide the government with data about the immigration status of recipients. Rollins said ...