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The Omni Houston Hotel at Four Riverway, Dec. 31, 2020, at in Houston. (Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- In the wake of a recent cyberattack on Omni Hotels & Resorts that prompted a "shut down [of] its systems to protect and contain its data," experts are reminding people of the actions guests can take to preserve their digital safety and weighing in on risks facing the hospitality industry at large."We are currently working to determine the scope of the event, including impact to any data or information maintained on Omni systems," the comp...

Arturo Jimenez/Anadolu via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After months of dodging questions about his abortion position, former president Donald Trump rejected calls to endorse a national abortion ban, saying he believes it should be a states' rights issue, though he declined to say a specific number of weeks bans should be set at."My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land in this case, the law of the state," Trump said Monday...

Connecticut ranks third nationally for the highest property taxes on single-family homes, with Hartford leading the state in property tax mill rates. A study by real estate data firm Attom reveals an average annual property tax bill of $8,022 in Connecticut. Fairfield County residents pay an average of $11,805 annually.

Getty Images - STOCK(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- As many turn their eyes to the skies to watch the solar eclipse, some with vision impairment are turning their ears to a new gadget.The LightSound is a 3D-printed device, about the size of a cell phone, which can register the changing brightness of light. It then turns that information into a variety of sounds using a process known as "sonification.""Sonification is just taking data and converting it into sound," says Allyson Bieryla, an astronomer at Harvard University. Bieryla came up with the idea for the LightSound ahead of the ...

Yulia Drozd/ABC NewsKYIV, Ukraine -- As Ukraine aims to mobilize up to 500,000 troops in the third year of war against Russia, it needs six times more workers driving the economy at home to support the troops."Their salaries are paid by our people, who pay taxes. When we talk about mobilization, we must know that one soldier equals six people in civilian life who pay taxes. Therefore, the government, me, all of us, must find three million taxpayers from the month of January," President Zelenskyy said during a press conference in December last year.But finding a workforce has become a...