Former Timberwolves analyst pleads guilty for stealing hard drive with proprietary data - Yahoo Sports

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A former Minnesota Timberwolves coaching analyst pled guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized computer access, ESPN reported.

Somak Sarkar was fired by the Timberwolves in March and arrested after allegedly stealing thousands of internal files from a team executive which included "strategic NBA information."

The original charges accused Sarkar of taking a hard drive belonging to Sachin Gupta, a Timberwolves executive vice president. The hard drive was connected to a laptop in Gupta's office when he left for the weekend and was missing when he returned on the following Monday.

Security footage showed Sarkar entering Gupta's office twice that Saturday, looking to make sure no one saw him, according to the criminal complaint. Sarkar was fired the following week.

Gupta is in charge of the Timberwolves' analytics department and had proprietary information — including player data, team decision-making, contract details and trade negotiations — that the front office would not want other teams to see, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Another team employee who was a friend of Sarkar got the hard drive back and returned it to Gupta. A subsequent forensic analysis showed that 5,700 files were copied from the device. Investigators also determined that Sarkar's computer was used to open the drive.

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After Sarkar was arrested, a search warrant was executed at his home where police found several hard drives, a computer and three tablets. One of the devices searched had information from Gupta's hard drive, according to ESPN.

Gupta told police that Sarkar was moved to an analyst role with the coaching staff due to issues with his superior. But he was eventually transferred to another department due to poor job performance, the criminal complaint stated. Sarkar had previously worked in analytics with the Houston Rockets, New Orleans Pelicans and New York Knicks.

Sarkar was also charged with third-degree felony burglary, but that will be dismissed as part of him pleading guilty to the misdemeanor charge, according to his attorney. He will be sentenced and spared jail time in Hennepin County on July 9.

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Aileen Cannon in 'Hard Place' Over Donald Trump Ruling: Ex-Trump Attorney - Newsweek

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Judge Aileen Cannon faced criticism from a former Donald Trump lawyer following her failure to rule on whether the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago violated the former president's rights, giving his legal team the right to a full hearing.

Ty Cobb, who served on Trump's White House legal team, told CNN that the ruling by Cannon, a Trump appointee, was "highly irregular."

"She's in a hard place for herself," Cobb said. "She either has to disappoint Trump, which obviously is difficult for her, or she has to make a decision that supports Trump but will get her removed from the case when it goes [on appeal] to the 11th Circuit."

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Cobb said that Cannon has shown bias toward Trump in her allowance of numerous motions that "most judges wouldn't have seen any merit to," including a motion to have Special Counsel Jack Smith removed from the case.

Cobb said it would not make a difference to the case if the Department of Justice sought a new prosecutor to replace Smith.

"To expedite things, they could take that course," he said. "But she [Cannon] has already done her duty to Trump by pushing this case off to the point where it's not going to get tried before the election."

Cannon indefinitely delayed the trial last month, pending the resolution of pretrial litigation issues concerning the classified evidence used by prosecutors. The judge has faced accusations of showing partiality toward the former president, including by choosing to delay the trial until after Election Day in November, as Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for a second term in the White House.

The case against Trump is based on 40 federal charges alleging that he illegally retained classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021 and obstructed the government's efforts to retrieve them. Trump's indictment came after the FBI served a warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in August 2022.

In May, Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime when a New York City jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records regarding hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

He also faces federal felony charges in a Washington, D.C.-based case concerning 2020 election interference, while a separate state-level election subversion case remains active in Georgia.

Trump maintains his innocence in all cases and insists he is the victim of "persecution" and a "witch hunt" that he claims is being orchestrated by Democrats.

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Christina Applegate's 13-Year-Old Daughter Admits It's 'Hard' to See Her Mom Living with MS: 'I Want to Help' - PEOPLE

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Christina Applegate’s daughter Sadie says that since her mom was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, “it’s definitely hard seeing my mom struggle.”

The 13-year-old, whom Applegate calls the “reason I get up in the morning and my joy of my life” is a guest on the new episode of MeSsy, the podcast hosted by Applegate and close friend, actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who also lives with MS.

The "Dead to Me" actress introduced her teen daughter, whom she shares with husband, musician Martyn Le Noble, as “my favorite guest we could possibly ever have.”

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Sadie said coming on the podcast was her idea, and she shared what it’s been like to see MS affect her mom: “When she got diagnosed, it kind of just felt like...not like everything was over but it was hard seeing my mom lose a lot of the abilities she used to have in my childhood, When I was a kid, we would dance in her room for hours at a time.”

Applegate tells Sadie she feels "incredibly guilty" when she has a bad MS day "because I don't ever want you to feel that I'm not capable to be your protector, your mother, you know, I love you," she said. "I want to make you food. I want to bring it to you. I want to do all the things and I do when I can. And I feel incredibly guilty when I can't."

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And though Sadie admitted it's been a "difficult" time for their family, she added, “it’s also been nice being able to help her and support her.” But, she joked, her mom doesn't always want the help on offer.

"Every time we go to a concert, she always is like, 'You cannot push my wheelchair, Sadie, you're going to run into a wall,'" she said. "And I will beg. I'm just like, 'Please, mom, let me push your wheelchair.' Because I want to help her, so that's definitely why I want to do it, but it's also funny because she's always saying, 'No, I want this person to do it'... and it's never me."

Applegate defended her case, telling Sadie, "I just always get afraid that...if there was like a ramp that you would just let go because you thought it was funny!" But, she conceded, "You are darn good at pushing the wheelchair."

Christina Applegate and Martyn LeNoble in 2015.

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On the podcast, Sadie shared that when Applegate first was diagnosed "she made us put on socks with sand or like balloons with sand...to help me understand the pain of walking," she said. "It was a very uncomfortable experience."

Sadie's own health issues have also helped her relate. The teen says she suffers from misophonia, which causes intense, overwhelming emotional and physical reactions to certain sounds ("my two worst are breathing and chewing," she says), and she was recently diagnosed with POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. POTS can cause dizziness, fatigue, heart palpitations and headaches.

Christina Applegate with daughter Sadie in 2011.

"When my mom's like, 'I'm in pain right now. I'm having tremors.' If I didn't have [POTS], I probably would be like...I don't know what you're talking about. But I actually have tremors from POTS," Sadie says. "It's definitely a lot easier to understand what she's going through when I have something I'm going through as well."

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Hail hits hard in Bellevue neighborhood - WOWT

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BELLEVUE, Neb. (WOWT) - Some Bellevue neighborhoods took some big hits from some big hail stones that fell duing Tuesday night’s storms.

For the neighborhood around South 13th Street and Bellevue Boulevard, things looked much better Wednesday morning than they did the previous night. Residents were happy to see OPPD work crews had been in their neighbrhood when they woke up Wednesday.

“I think it’s amazing,” resident Pete Zekauskas told 6 News. “They always do a nice job; OPPD does a very nice job. They tend to be very, very and professional.”

Tuesday night’s storms weren’t nearly as nice.

“Windy. A lot of rain, and two hail storms,” he said.

But the OPPD crews couldn’t help with the big tree that fell.

Residents pick up from the overnight storms.

Rose Mary, Christy, and little Tuesday live next door. All the noise from the storm wouldn’t let them go to sleep.

“I had just started to fall asleep, and I noticed the power went out, and I heard a big crash,” Rose Mary said. “And then we came out to see what happened and found that whole tree — well not whole tree; big chunk of the tree — down. ... The front garden is pretty much gone. We had about three or four bushes under there — they were pretty grown. I’m just glad it didn’t hit the house.”

All of this was too much for little Tuesday; her main concern was for her dog.

“She freaked out, and she was barking and whining and crying. And there was loud hail, and I could not handle that,” she said.

It was more than high winds that kept the family from falling asleep. Big hail stones started to fall.

“You could hear it on the house. I don’t know — we thought fireworks were going off at first. ... And then we came out to look in the yard, and I found a big hail stone. It was, you know, it was a palm-size, ping-pong ball. But then more hail started coming down, and they got to be like baseball-sized.”

Doug Kehm lives down the street. He also couldn’t believe the size of the hail that bounced through the neighborhood.

“I was astonished that they were that big — and to see one so spiked... Just haven’t seen that in the eight years we’ve lived here. It’s all been quarter-size or smaller,” he said.

It will take awhile to figure out exactly how much damage was done to their homes; but right now, some of the neighbors think it was nothing major.

“Nothing broke, cracked, chipped — nothing.”

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SEPTA being hard to fund is nothing new. Here's how we got here - The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Giants 'Hard Knocks' trailer teases Saquon Barkley moment - New York Post

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The first glimpse of the Giants on HBO’s new offseason edition of “Hard Knocks” has arrived, and with it what appears to be a critical exchange between the team’s front office and now-former Giants running back Saquon Barkley.

In the 80-second trailer for the NFL docuseries that dropped Tuesday, general manager Joe Schoen was sitting in his office on the phone with Barkley, who eventually departed in free agency for the loathed rival Eagles.

“Saquon, can you give me your word on that or are you not going to give us a chance?” Schoen asked.

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Although the context of the entire conversation is unclear, HBO cameras started following the Giants in January and captured many pivotal moments this offseason, including the NFL Scouting Combine, the 2024 NFL Draft and of course, free agency.

Barkley, the Giants’ top pick in 2018, agreed to a three-year, $37.5 million contract with the Eagles in March.

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“I’m just ready to get the business side off of it,” Barkley said during his introductory press conference in Philadelphia. “The last two years, so many people would come up to talk to me about me getting [franchise-] tagged or talk about contracts. Now all that’s done. The business side is done. We can keep the main thing the main thing — and that’s winning football games.”

Barkley, 27, will return to MetLife Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 20 — three months after the “Hard Knocks” cameras are set to stop rolling on the Giants.

Elsewhere in the clip, quarterback Daniel Jones — whom the Giants awarded a four-year contract extension worth $160 million last offseason — spoke about his recovery from a torn ACL he sustained in November.

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“I am five months from the surgery, still progressing that,” the former first-round pick said. “I’ve gotten hurt, but not like this.”

When Jones, 27, does return to the field, he’ll have a new toy to play with in the form of former LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers, the sixth overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

“Our team’s not built, we’re still adding pieces,” head coach Brian Daboll said of the Giants, who finished the 2023 season at 6-11 following a surprising run to the Divisional Round of the playoffs a year prior.

Former Panthers edge rusher Brian Burns is among the pieces the Giants added this offseason, with the lead-up to the blockbuster trade captured on “Hard Knocks.”

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“What about Brian Burns, have you looked at Brian Burns?” Schoen said. “We would have to trade like two twos and then you have to pay him 28, 29 million.”

The Giants formally acquired Burns, 26, from the Panthers in March, sending a 2024 second-round pick (No. 39 overall) and a 2025 fifth-rounder to Carolina.

The team subsequently signed the two-time Pro Bowler to a five-year contract worth $150 million.

“I’m a G-Man,” Burns exclaimed from the Giants’ facility after arriving in New York.

The five-part “Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants” premieres Tuesday, July 2, and will conclude on Tuesday, July 30.

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The alarming foreign policies of France's hard right and hard left - The Economist

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EVER SINCE France returned to NATO’s integrated military command structure in 2009, reversing Charles de Gaulle’s decision to quit it  in 1966, it has been a broadly solid partner for America and the Atlantic alliance. Today the French contribute troops and fighter jets to alliance operations and air policing along the eastern flank with Russia; they also patrol the Black Sea with manned aircraft. As president, Emmanuel Macron has turned into one of the European Union’s most outspoken advocates for bringing Ukraine into NATO. He promises a coalition of military instructors to train newly mobilised recruits inside Ukraine, and to send the country French Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets.

Within weeks, however, France’s conduct of foreign policy may enter an uncertain, and even turbulent, period that could call such commitments into question. This is because of Mr Macron’s unexpected decision to call a snap parliamentary election, to be held on June 30^th and July 7^th. An Ifop poll on June 24th confirmed the strong lead for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN), on 36%, followed by the left-wing alliance, New Popular Front (NFP), on 29.5%. Mr Macron’s pro-European centrist grouping is stuck in third place, with 20%.

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