--:-- Shamita Basu: Good morning. It's Monday, May 10th. I'm Shamita Basu. And I'm Duarte Giraldino. This is Apple News Today.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Each morning, hear about some of the most fascinating stories in the news and how the world's best journalists are covering them.
--:-- Shamita Basu: A major pipeline that's the main source of fuel to the East Coast is still shut down after a ransomware cyber attack. Politico reports on what this means for gasoline prices and security.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: This is believed to be the largest publicly disclosed successful attack on American infrastructure. Gasoline futures spiked overnight and the U.S. government issued an emergency waiver that allows gasoline to be transported by road.
--:-- Shamita Basu: This attack is a big deal. The Colonial Pipeline carries nearly half of the fuel consumed on the East Coast market. And analysts are saying, if this shutdown lasts more than a few days, you could be paying a lot more to fill up your car.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Politico reports investigators are focusing on a criminal gang called Darkside. Its hackers have a reputation for being skilled and sophisticated in their attacks and for demanding large payments from their targets.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Other hacker groups have gone after small organizations like schools and hospitals. But Darkseid targets the biggest corporations, the ones that can pay large ransoms.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Politico is pointing out this is just the latest example of attacks on infrastructure. Earlier this year, hackers infiltrated a water treatment system in Florida. They essentially tried to poison the water supply there.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Federal prosecutors say Iranian hackers tried to take control of a dam in New York. And if you watch CBS this weekend, you heard Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warning of further threats.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks are becoming more frequent. They're here to stay. And we have to work in partnership with business to secure networks to defend ourselves against these attacks.
--:-- Shamita Basu: This attack presents a fresh new challenge to the Biden administration which is already under pressure to shore up digital defenses after Russian and Chinese cyber attacks.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: A deadly bombing at a school in Afghanistan is raising new questions about security as American forces are leaving the country.
--:-- Shamita Basu: More than 85 people were killed and many more wounded in the explosion over the weekend. Most of the victims were teenage schoolgirls.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: The Washington Post has reporters on the ground and reports from Kabul. This school is in a neighborhood where many members of the ethnic minority group Hazara live.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Militants often target this group, and they've long been persecuted by the Taliban. The presence of the U.S. and NATO troops gave them a sense of security. But that's ending soon.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: The Post explains many Hazaras feel abandoned by the West. They're worried that the latest violence could be just the beginning, that things could get even worse when international troops are no longer there to protect them.
--:-- Shamita Basu: President Biden pledged all American troops are going to be out of Afghanistan by September 11th. That marks 20 years since the terror attacks that led to America's military involvement.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: In that time, more than 2,000 U.S. service members died there, and at least 100,000 Afghan civilians have been injured or killed.
--:-- Shamita Basu: The Post speaks to the family of one of the teenagers who was killed in the school bombing. They say they're worried about further persecution and violence now that American troops are leaving.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: But her mother says she will still send her other daughters back to school when it reopens. She doesn't have the money to move, and she wants a different life for her kids.
--:-- Shamita Basu: She says, "I want my children to be teachers or doctors so they can leave this country."
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: The result of the most famous contest in horse racing is now in doubt. The horse that won the Kentucky Derby failed a drug test.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Medina Spirit was found to have illegal levels of an anti drug. NBC News reports that Churchill Downs has suspended the horse trainer Bob Baffert. He has denied doping the horse.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Next, Derby officials will test another sample from Medina Spirit. If that comes back positive for drugs, the horse will be disqualified. And the winner will be current second place finisher, Mandaloon.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Great white sharks get a whole lot closer to us when we're swimming or surfing than you might think.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: That's the takeaway from a striking set of wildlife videos that's provoking strong reactions.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Don't worry, it's still going to be okay to go to the beach. This reporting comes to us from the LA Times.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: A man named Carlos Gana launched a drone off the coast of California, and he was hoping he would spot a shark, a great white specifically.
--:-- Shamita Basu: For decades, these sharks have been thought to be pretty rare in the area, but less than two minutes into airtime, he found one. And then pretty soon after, he saw another four.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: You see where this is going, right? Turns out, more often than you realize, great whites come pretty close to the shore where surfers and swimmers are.
--:-- Shamita Basu: We just haven't had the right perspective to notice them until we could fly drones over the water to see.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Researchers say drones are helping them to better understand how animals move and spend time.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Now, here's the thing about this story. What sounds like bad news at first is actually good news in this case.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: The fact that great whites get close to humans more often than we thought underscores just how rare shark attacks really are.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Researchers have wondered about this for a long time, but they never had a good way to measure the potential for shark attacks.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Now they can watch hours of drone footage and see plenty of instances where a shark swims right under a surfer.
--:-- Shamita Basu: To see how close great white sharks are getting to you, check out the store in the Apple News app.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Wait till you see the footage, but don't cue up the Jaws music.
--:-- Shamita Basu: From way up high you can see these sharks aren't looking for any trouble with us. They just want to glide on by.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: The market for sports memorabilia is worth billions of dollars. But there are some things that can't be had for any price.
--:-- Shamita Basu: In fact, they can't be had at all. They're literally missing.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: ESPN reports on the mysteries behind some of the most coveted missing items in sports history.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Oh, in one case, the collectibles aren't actually missing. They're just in outer space. More on that in a second.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: One story involves the basketball from the game where Wilt Chamberlain single-handedly scored 100 points.
--:-- Shamita Basu: After the game, a teenager stole a ball, ran out of the arena, and hopped a fence. Wilt saw it unfold and told security guards, just let the team go.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: But the scorekeeper later said that was not the real ball. And it's possible that when the Philadelphia Warriors moved to San Francisco, that historic ball was lost by accident.
--:-- Shamita Basu: The debate goes on and on to this day.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: Another missing item isn't just a sports treasure. It's a piece of American history.
--:-- Shamita Basu: Jackie Robinson was the first black player in Major League Baseball history. But for decades, nobody's been able to find the jersey that he wore for his first Brooklyn Dodgers home game in 1947.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: A jersey from later in that season sold for over $2 million. The one from his debut would be worth much, much more if anyone could find it.
--:-- Shamita Basu: And finally, let's head to the moon. That's where astronaut Alan Shepard famously hit a couple of golf balls during his moonwalk a half century ago.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: As far as anybody knows, the golf balls, they're still there. So next time there's a moon landing, it'd be worth scooping up the balls.
--:-- Shamita Basu: A golf collectibles expert tells ESPN they'd go for a minimum $10 million a piece.
--:-- Duarte Giraldino: You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app. And while you're there, check out some of our audio stories.
--:-- Shamita Basu: We'll talk with you again tomorrow.
