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The release of iOS 6.1.2 came yesterday to help fix issues Microsoft Exchange users were experiencing as well as a widely reported battery drain problem.

If you previously jailbroke your iOS device and updated to iOS 6.1.2, you’re probably bummed to learn your device is no longer jailbroken. Thankfully, Evad3rs has announced it’s still possible to jailbreak your iOS 6.1.2 device with its Evasi0n jailbreak software. It only took Evad3rs a few hours to offer its Evasi0n version 1.4, which has been designed to work with iOS 6.1.2 devices.

Considering how busy Apple has been with its patchwork of iOS 6, it’s good to hear Evad3rs is still working hard on making each version of iOS 6 jailbreak-friendly. So if you’ve been holding out on upgrading to iOS 6.1.2 for fear of losing your jailbreak, you can now jump into the jailbreak pool as lifeguard Evad3rs has given the “all clear” signal.

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WASHINGTON — The prospects of passing an important part of President Barack Obama’s gun control agenda improved a bit on Tuesday when a House Republican announced his support for universal background checks for firearm purchases.

“I think the idea of background checks across the board, I’m not opposed to them,” Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.) told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “And I disagree with people who say that this is going to be the first step to gun registration, which leads to gun confiscation. Look, about 40 percent of folks already undergo background checks when they get their guns. And that information is purged after a short period.”

“Too many people just want to discount everything out of hand. And you can’t. You’ve got to have a thoughtful discussion,” he added. “You’ve got to look at what the definitions of each of these things are and how they will be applied before you say: ‘I’m against universal background checks, or I’m against this, or I’m against that.’ Look, we have a problem. Let’s figure out the best way to address the problem. And to me the problem is…. making sure an individual who shouldn’t have a weapon of any type – because they have a propensity to commit a violent act – doesn’t get their hands on that weapon.”

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The media was in a tizzy recently about Obama’s secretive golf game with Tiger Woods, and they were not going to stand for being shut out of this important political event.

On Tuesday, Stephen Colbert joined his colleagues in decrying Obama’s lack of transparency: “It’s one thing to keep us in the dark about a fleet of flying robo-assassins, but a round of golf on your day off? Where’s the judicial oversight?”

Watch the clip above and let us know why you think President Obama refuses to allow the press corp access to his every waking minute.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says there can be no retroactive application of its ruling that lawyers have to tell their clients if pleading guilty to a crime could cause their deportation.

The high court’s 7-2 ruling came Wednesday in the case of Roselva Chaidez.

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ABU DHABI, Feb 20 (Reuters) – Bahrain has accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guard of setting up a militant cell to assassinate public figures in the Gulf Arab kingdom and attack its airport and government buildings.

Bahraini authorities said on Sunday they had arrested eight Bahrainis in the group, with links to Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.

The kingdom, base for the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has been in political turmoil since protests erupted there in 2011, led by majority Shi’ite Muslims demanding an end to the Sunni monarchy’s political domination and full powers for parliament.

Bahrain has accused Shi’ite Iran of fuelling the unrest, an accusation Tehran has consitently denied.

In a statement published by the official Bahrain News Agency late on Tuesday, Bahrain’s head of public security said the cell was part of a group called the “Imam Army” which included Bahrainis at home and abroad and members of other nationalities.

“Investigation has also revealed that a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard codenamed ‘Abu Naser’ masterminded the whole terror operation,” the agency quoted public security chief Major-General Tariq Hassan al-Hassan as saying.

Abu Nasser supplied the group with $80,000, Hassan said, and instructed it to gather information, recruit and obtain weapons storage in Bahrain.

“MISTAKEN PATH”

The cell’s planned targets included the Ministry of Interior and Bahrain International Airport, he said. The group attended training camps run by the Revolutionary Guard inside Iran, as well as some operated by Iraq’s Hezbollah in Baghdad and the Iraqi city of Kerbala, Hassan added.

Five of the detainees were arrested in Bahrain and three in Oman, General Hassan said, adding another four Bahrainis were being sought by the authorities.

He said authorities had collected evidence in the form of papers and electronic documents, flashcards, phones, computers, cash and images of bank transactions.

On Monday Ramin Mehmanparast, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, dismissed Sunday’s news of the arrests.

“Unfortunately Bahraini officials are following a mistaken path,” Iran’s ISNA news agency quoted him as saying.

He said Bahraini officials were “making accusations against various countries including Iran, and they imagine that in this way they can solve the problem they are encountering”.

News of the arrests emerged after an upsurge in unrest on the island last week. A protester and a policeman were killed in clashes on Feb. 14 as anti-government protesters marked the second anniversary of the uprising.

The violence has clouded the atmosphere around talks that began on Feb. 10 between the mostly Shi’ite opposition and the Sunni-dominated government to find a way out of the impasse over Shi’ite demands for more democracy.

Another round of talks was due to be held on Wednesday afternoon. (Reporting by Raissa Kasolowsky; Editing by William Maclean and Andrew Roche)

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