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US military sends drones, alongside 200 troops, to Nigeria amid fears of renewed Boko Haram insurgency
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The U.S. military has sent MQ-9 Reaper drones to Nigeria, a U.S. defense official reportedly told The Associated Press, as fears are growing of a renewed insurgency by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
The drones were deployed after 200 U.S. troops arrived in Nigeria last month to provide training and intelligence. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is battling a complex security crisis, especially in the north of the country.
A spokesperson for AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command, told the AP that U.S. troops “are working alongside their Nigerian counterparts to provide intelligence support, advisory assistance, and targeted training in support of the Nigerian Armed Forces.”
Among the most prominent Islamic militant groups active in Nigeria are Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, which is affiliated with the Islamic State and is known as Islamic State West Africa Province, or ISWAP.
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A U.S. military MQ-9 Reaper drone approaches for landing at Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 29, 2025. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP via Getty Images)
There is also the ISIS-linked Lakurawa, as well as other “bandit” groups that specialize in kidnapping for ransom and illegal mining.
The U.S. troops and the MQ-9 drones are based at Bauchi Airfield, a newly built airport in the northeast of the country, the spokesperson said to the AP. The number of drones deployed remains unclear.
The deployment is part of a new security partnership agreed on after President Donald Trump sounded the alarm about Christians being slaughtered in Nigeria’s security crisis.
The U.S. launched strikes against IS forces on Dec. 26 — the day after Christmas.
Earlier this month, three suspected suicide bombings killed at least 23 people and wounded 108 others in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. No group claimed responsibility, but suspicion quickly fell on Boko Haram, which in 2009 launched an insurgency in northeastern Nigeria to enforce Sharia law.
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Residents and a motorcyclist move between destroyed structures in Offa on Dec. 27, 2025, caused by debris from expended munitions that fell from U.S. strikes on unspecified militants linked to the Islamic State group in Nigeria. (Abiodun Jamiu/AFP via Getty Images)
MQ-9 drones cost around $30 million apiece and have separate models for land and sea. They can also be used to carry out airstrikes, but AFRICOM says they will only be used in Nigeria for intelligence-gathering and training.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says Boko Haram aims to “overthrow the current Nigerian Government and replace it with a regime based on Islamic law.”
A policeman walks among protesters as civil society groups and the Nigeria Labour Congress hold a peaceful protest over insecurity in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 17, 2025. (Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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“The U.S. State Department designated Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organization in November 2013,” it added.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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From Saif Ali Khan-Amrita Singh to Bhagyashree-Himalaya Dasani: 5 famous Indian celebrities who eloped and got married
Bhagyashree was a star with her debut film ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’. But her real heart was with her childhood sweetheart, Himalaya. When her family opposed the match, she didn’t wait for a sequel—she eloped. She famously chose to step back from the spotlight to focus on her family right when she was the most “bankable” star in India. It’s a poignant example of someone who valued the person over the persona.
These stories remind us that while weddings are for the public, marriage is for the two people in it.
Trump admin says SJSU now faces ‘impending enforcement’ for transgender volleyball scandal conflict
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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump’s Department of Education said it has notified San Jose State University (SJSU) that it faces “impending enforcement action” for its “refusal to comply with Title IX.”
SJSU and the California State University (CSU) system filed a lawsuit earlier in March to challenge an Education Department investigation that determined the university violated Title IX in its handling of a biological male transgender volleyball player on a women’s team from 2022-24.
Now, the administration is cracking down against that resistance.
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“We have provided SJSU with multiple opportunities to resolve its Title IX violations with common sense actions: separating male and female athletes based on their biological sex, keeping men out of women’s locker rooms and bathrooms, restoring rightfully-earned titles and accolades to female athletes, and apologizing to the women forced to forfeit competitions to protect themselves,” Kimberly Richey, the department’s assistant secretary for civil rights, said in an announcement.
“Yet, SJSU remains obstinate, choosing a radical ideology over safety, dignity, and fairness for its own students. With today’s action, the Department is putting the university on notice: comply with the law or risk losing its federal funding.”
Fox News Digital has reached out to SJSU and CSU for a response.
Brooke Slusser and Blaire Fleming of the San Jose State Spartans call a play against the Air Force Falcons on Oct. 19, 2024, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
The conflict between Trump’s administration and the school stems back to the 2024 season, when a national controversy involving transgender player Blaire Fleming triggered an election-cycle media firestorm, all during Trump’s third White House campaign.
The Education Department’s investigation has claimed, “SJSU actively recruited and allowed a male to compete on the women’s indoor and beach volleyball teams and reportedly instructed members of the coaching staff not to tell the female players that the athlete was a male.”
The investigation added that “on multiple occasions, the male athlete spiked the ball so forcefully that it knocked females on the opposing team to the ground.”
One of the standout details of the investigation’s findings was that a female SJSU player “discovered that the male student had conspired to have a member of the opposing team spike her in the face during an upcoming match. SJSU did not investigate the conspiracy, but later subjected this female athlete to a Title IX complaint for reportedly ‘misgendering’ the male athlete when discussing this incident in online videos and interviews.”
Former SJSU co-captain Brooke Slusser has included those allegations in her ongoing lawsuit against representatives of SJSU and CSU.
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After SJSU and CSU announced they were suing the Trump administration to challenge the findings, Slusser, and other former NCAA players, came forward about their alleged experience during the scandal, and how it affected them, in recent interviews with Fox News Digital.
Slusser, who shared an apartment with Fleming at SJSU without knowing the athlete’s birth sex, became the subject of viral debate after her interview reflecting on the experience sharing spaces with Fleming.
“You find out you’re just chilling in a bed with a man that you have no idea about… I [was] unknowingly sharing a bed at that time with a man,” Slusser said, also alleging SJSU volleyball coach Todd Kress encouraged her to live in the same apartment as the trans teammate when another group of players was also looking for a final tenant.
Former Utah State volleyball star Kaylie Ray told Fox News Digital that during matches against SJSU and Fleming in 2022 and ’23, before Fleming’s birth sex was known, she had teammates suffer finger injuries from the trans athlete’s spikes.
“I had teammates who had seriously jammed their fingers, luckily not broken, but a handful of girls who had sustained minor injuries from the male player,” Ray said, adding, “We knew that if the male athlete had a phenomenal game, there was nothing we could do to stop that person.”
Ray’s Utah State team became one of five teams to forfeit at least one game to SJSU in 2024, seemingly in protest of Fleming. She says the forfeit impacted her team’s hopes of winning their fourth straight Mountain West championship.
Meanwhile, the University of Wyoming forfeited two matches to SJSU in 2024. Former Cowgirls player Macey Boggs told Fox News Digital that the decisions to forfeit the games “permanently ruined” friendships among her teammates.
“There were some of the girls who I really enjoyed, and we got along great, and then this situation came up, some conflict came up, and ultimately we went in separate directions because of that… as soon as we played in our last game, we all went in separate directions… it was hard to maintain those relationships,” Boggs said.
SJSU was plagued by a separate Title IX violation in sports that it had to resolve with the Biden administration in 2021. The university ultimately came to a $1.6 million resolution with the Department of Justice in 2021.
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The DOJ found that SJSU failed for more than a decade to respond adequately to reports of sexual harassment, including sexual assault, of female student-athletes by an athletic trainer then working at SJSU, beginning in 2009 when female student-athletes reported that the trainer subjected them to repeated, unwelcome sexual touching.
The department and SJSU entered into a comprehensive agreement to address the findings of the investigation, which began in June 2020 during Trump’s first term.
Now, Trump’s current administration is giving the school 10 more days to comply with a series of resolution agreements to resolve the volleyball situation, or face enforcement action, including referral to the DOJ and termination of SJSU’s federal funding.
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Russia launches 948 drones at Ukraine in largest attack over a 24-hour period
Cities across the west of Ukraine were hit, with residential buildings damaged and many injured.
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Epic Games lays off more than 1,000 amid slowing Fortnite engagement
Fortnite publisher Epic Games said Tuesday it is laying off 1,000 employees to save money as it grapples with industry-wide and company-specific challenges.
The Cary, North Carolina-based video game publisher said in a memo to employees that the job cuts are not related to artificial intelligence. Rather, they stem from industry-wide challenges such as slower growth, weaker spending and tougher cost economics. Games like Fortnite are also competing for people’s attention against social media and other forms of online entertainment.
In addition, Epic said it’s had its own company-specific hurdles, for example, it is “only in the early stages of returning to mobile” after court battles with Apple and Google over app store payments.
“This isn’t our first time being here. Epic survived upheavals in 1990s with the move from 2D to 3D with Unreal 1; in the 2000s building console games with Gears of War; and in 2012 moving to online gaming with Paragon and Fortnite,” CEO and founder Tim Sweeney said in the memo.
“Market conditions today are the most extreme we’ve seen since those early days, with massive upheaval in the industry accompanied by massive opportunity for the companies that come out as winners on the other side,” he added.
Epic said it has 4,000 employees after Tuesday’s layoffs, which amount to about 20% of the company’s workforce.
The company’s last large-scale layoffs were in 2023, when it cut 830 jobs. This amounted to about 16% of Epic’s workforce at the time.
Brazil’s Igor Thiago relishing Premier League Golden Boot battle with Erling Haaland
Brentford forward Igor Thiago said his rivalry with Manchester City‘s Erling Haaland in the race to finish as top scorer in the Premier League has given him an extra motivation to represent Brazil.
Uncapped Thiago has 19 league goals this season — three less than leader Haaland — and was named in Ancelotti’s squad for the upcoming friendlies against France and Croatia.
“Our national team squad is massive, so I think that to make it this far, you need to put in performances like these,” Thiago, 24, said.
“To be up there with Haaland, competing for the top scorer spot alongside him — a player of his calibre, a goal-scoring machine — I think that gives me even more motivation to represent my country.
“[It gives me more motivation] to show that I’m ready for this opportunity that has come my way … With such a huge squad, I think you have to have these numbers to be able to represent our country.”
Thiago joined Brentford in 2024 and recently signed a contract extension that will see him stay at the west London club until at least 2031. He has been instrumental in the club’s rise to seventh in the Premier League.
“The work I’m putting in is being noticed by people,” Thiago said. “To be able to represent our country by playing in one of the toughest competitions in the world, and to be putting in the performances and achieving the results is something that fills me with pride. And to be here today is, for me, the greatest dream of my life, the greatest achievement of my life.”
Ancelotti wants Brazil to play like ‘Carnival’
Brazil take on France on Thursday in Boston before facing Croatia on March 31 in Orlando, the last national team friendlies before Ancelotti names his final World Cup squad on May 18.
The former Real Madrid coach has yet to make up his mind on some players.
“There are four or five places left, and in that regard we have a lot of doubts,” Ancelotti said.
“That’s why I’ve called up players I don’t know very well. I want one defender, two midfielders and two more forwards. The competition is fierce. It’s lucky for the national team that the players are so talented.”
Ancelotti insists he will still rely on a four-man front line.
“Up front I want four players, given the make-up of the squad we have,” he said. “We have some very good players up front, so we have to make the most of their quality.”
Ancelotti took over the national team in May 2025 and will attempt to guide Brazil to their sixth World Cup title, they have not lifted the World Cup since 2002 and the closest they have come since was a fourth-place finish in 2014 with the tournament at home.
The Brazil boss also wants his national team to be like Brazil’s famous Carnival, citing what makes it special. “The national team’s DNA is very important,” he said.
“Brazil’s DNA is talent, energy and joy. I want to compare Brazilian football to the Carnival. Carnival was new to me; I realised it has a lot of energy, joy, art and talent. And a lot of organisations.
“Organising all the decorated cars, with the timing just right — we have to bring all of that into the national team. Joy, energy, talent and organisation.”
DocuSign email scam targets healthcare workers
Cyber expert shares tips to avoid AI phishing scams
Kurt ‘The CyberGuy’ Knutsson shares practical ways to avoid falling victim to AI-generated phishing scams and discusses a report that North Korean agents are posing as I.T. workers to funnel money into the country’s nuclear program.
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Most of us sign documents online without thinking twice. A quick DocuSign request appears in your inbox. You click the link, review the document and move on with your day. That convenience is exactly what scammers rely on. Recently, we received a message from a CyberGuy reader that shows how convincing these scams can look. In this case, the email appeared to come from a health licensing authority and asked the recipient to review a document tied to a professional license renewal.
Here is the email we received from Susie, a registered nurse in Florida who nearly fell for the scam.
“I am a Registered Nurse, and my bi-annual renewal is approaching. Last month, I received a surprising (at least to me) email with a document to DocuSign from the state Board of Health. It didn’t feel right, even though I have used DocuSign multiple times in the past. Those experiences were known transactions. I contacted the state board, and they confirmed that it IS a SCAM. I sent them screenshots, etc. and reported the message for phishing. I want to thank you, Kurt, because it was thanks to you that I questioned the veracity of this outreach. Reading the articles and tips you provide saved me a great deal of trouble. Thanks again, and all you nurses out there renewing your license, be wary.” – Susie C, Orlando, FL
Susie did exactly what security experts recommend. She paused and verified the message before clicking anything. That one step likely prevented a phishing attack.
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What the suspicious DocuSign email looked like
Susie also shared a screenshot of the message she received. At first glance, the email looks familiar. The blue layout resembles real DocuSign notifications. There is even a large yellow Review Document button. But one detail stood out immediately.
The email address sending the message was:
info.florida-department-of-health-email-notification@cc.ncu.edu.tw
That address has nothing to do with a U.S. state health department.
Why DocuSign scams work so well
DocuSign is used by millions of businesses and government agencies. Because people expect these requests, they often click without hesitation. Scammers exploit that habit. A typical DocuSign phishing email tries to create urgency. It may claim a license renewal, a contract update, or a payroll form requires immediate action. Once you click the button, several things may happen:
- You may land on a fake login page designed to steal your email password.
- The site may prompt you to download a malicious file.
- The link may redirect you to several phishing pages.
In many cases, the goal is simple. Attackers want your email credentials so they can take over your account or launch more scams.
10 WAYS TO PROTECT SENIORS FROM EMAIL SCAMS
A Florida nurse avoided a DocuSign phishing scam after spotting a suspicious email tied to a fake health license renewal request. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Red flags in the DocuSign scam email
A few warning signs can help you spot a fake request quickly.
Suspicious sender address
Always look closely at the sender’s domain. Government agencies rarely send messages from foreign academic domains like .edu.tw. That alone signals something is wrong.
Unexpected documents
Legitimate DocuSign requests usually follow a known interaction. For example, a contract you discussed or paperwork you expect. An unexpected document should always raise questions.
Pressure to act quickly
Many phishing emails include language that urges immediate action. The goal is to stop you from thinking. Take a moment before clicking any button.
Generic document descriptions
The message shown in the screenshot simply states that a document is ready to review. It provides no real context or explanation. Legitimate documents often include details about the transaction.
How clicking the link could compromise you
Many people assume they will recognize a fake page. In reality, phishing sites look very convincing. Some scams even use cloned DocuSign pages. Once victims enter their credentials, attackers gain access to their email accounts.
From there, criminals can:
- Reset passwords for financial services
- Send phishing emails to contacts
- Search inboxes for sensitive documents
In healthcare professions, that risk can also expose licensing information or patient-related communications.
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Cybercriminals are using fake DocuSign emails to trick users into clicking malicious links and handing over sensitive login credentials. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Ways to stay safe from DocuSign phishing scams
Fortunately, a few habits can dramatically lower your risk.
1) Verify the request separately
If a document claims to come from a government agency or employer, contact them directly using a known phone number or website. Never use the contact information inside the suspicious email.
2) Hover over links before clicking
Move your cursor over the button and check the destination link. If the URL looks unfamiliar or unrelated to DocuSign, do not click it.
3) Don’t click links and use strong antivirus software
If an email seems suspicious, do not click the link or open any attachment. Strong antivirus software can help block malicious downloads, warn you about dangerous websites and catch threats before they spread across your device. Get my picks for the best 2026 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android & iOS devices at Cyberguy.com
4) Use a data removal service
Scammers often gather personal details from data broker sites and public records to make phishing emails seem more believable. A data removal service can help reduce your exposed information online, which may make it harder for criminals to target you with convincing messages. Check out my top picks for data removal services and get a free scan to find out if your personal information is already out on the web by visiting Cyberguy.com.
5) Access documents through official accounts
If you regularly use DocuSign, sign in directly at the official website and check your pending documents there. That approach avoids email traps entirely.
6) Report phishing attempts
Forward suspicious messages to your organization’s security team or the Federal Trade Commission phishing reporting system at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. The FTC also advises forwarding phishing emails to the Anti-Phishing Working Group at [email protected]. Reporting scams helps protect others from the same attack.
Kurt’s key takeaways
Scams succeed because they blend into everyday routines. Signing documents online has become normal for work, healthcare licensing and financial paperwork. That convenience also gives criminals a perfect disguise. Susie’s story shows how a small moment of doubt can stop a phishing attack before it begins. A quick call to the licensing board revealed the truth. The message was never legitimate.
Now the question is one every reader should consider. If a DocuSign email arrived in your inbox right now, would you notice the warning signs before clicking the button? Let us know by writing to us at Cyberguy.com
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6 kg vs 10 kg washing machine: How many clothes can your machine handle at a time
A washing machine is no longer a luxury, it’s more of a necessity. So choosing a product which is your daily necessity is quite an important task. Before you choose, it is important for you to understand your daily washing requirement and then make an informative decision. Because most of the time, people are unaware of how much load or number of clothes a machine can handle, depending on its capacity.
Understand this simply: If the capacity of your machine is 8 kg, and you are stuffing over 50 clothes, it won’t clean for sure and also hamper the performance of the machine.
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