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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have regained control of a district center close to the northern city of Kunduz that fell to Taliban insurgents earlier this month, officials said on Tuesday.     | ||
| Microsoft Faulted Over Ransomware While Shifting Blame to NSA - SuperSite for Windows | ||
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| Right and Left React to Trumps Sharing Classified Information With Russia, and More | ||
Writers views on the new war on drugs, continued fallout from James B. Comeys ouster, and the presidents commission to investigate voter fraud.  | ||
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How does a leading neo-Nazi website that has railed against Hispanic immigrants expand its audience beyond a loyal base of U.S. white supremacists? By publishing a Spanish-language edition, of course.... | ||
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- One in every 5 middle and high school students has complained of being bullied at school and the number of reports of sexual assault on college campuses has more than tripled over the past decade, according to a federal study released Tuesday.... | ||
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| Amid Puerto Ricos Fiscal Ruins, a New Push for Statehood | ||
As Puerto Rico faces an economic meltdown, residents are preparing to vote in June in a nonbinding referendum on whether to try to become the 51st state.  | ||
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| 'Where I work, . . . it is dangerous to be alive': A slain Mexican journalist's prescient speech - Washington Post | ||
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| President Trump Is Visiting Saudi Arabia to Cement a Friendship - TIME | ||
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| Trump's trampling of political norms spurs strongman comparisons - Politico | ||
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| Disney hack: Ransom demanded for stolen film - BBC News | ||
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| China quietly releases draft of tough new intelligence law | ||
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday quietly released the first public draft of an intelligence law giving authorities powers to monitor suspects, raid premises, and seize vehicles and devices while investigating domestic and foreign individuals and groups.    | ||
| Iraqi military spokesman says only 12 sq km of Mosul held by Islamic State | ||
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have reduced the area of Mosul controlled by Islamic State to 12 square km, military spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool told a news conference on Tuesday.    | ||
| After al Qaeda's Ouster, a Push to Revive Yemen Port | ||
Yemeni fighters backed by the United Arab Emirates ousted al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from the port of Al Mukalla a year ago, and keeping the power on and reviving other basic services could help keep the militants at bay.  | ||
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Can President Donald Trump share top secret information?
BBC News - 1 hour ago
Donald Trump has once again found himself at the centre of a storm - this time for reportedly sharing "codeword classified" information with the Russian ambassador. The information, which related to the use of laptops on aircraft, is understood to have ...
US allies seen cooperating despite alleged Trump secrets leak
Reuters - 44 minutes ago
A television plays a news report on U.S. President Donald Trump's recent Oval Office meeting with Russia's Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak as night falls on offices and the entrance of the West Wing White House in Washington, U.S. May 15, 2017.
Russian Foreign Ministry: no classified information from Trump
Fox5NY - 5 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's foreign ministry spokesman has denied reports that President Donald Trump revealed classified information to senior officials during the Russian minister's visit to the Oval Office last week. Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for ...
Trump's Best Defense on Russia Is Incompetence
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
One way you know the president is in trouble is that, accused of collusion, his best defense is incompetence. Such is the case with Donald Trump's firing of James Comey. And such is the case with the latest scandal to hit this White House, that Trump ...
Trump shared highly classified intelligence about Islamic State with Russians, reports say
Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago
The White House lurched into a new crisis Monday over reports that President Trump had shared highly classified intelligence last week with visiting Russian officials in the Oval Office. In the meeting with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador to ...
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2 dead in plane crash near small airport outside New York City
Fox News Federal investigators will be at the site of a deadly jet crash near a small airport outside New York City on Tuesday, working to determine what caused the aircraft to go down before bursting into flames. Police said two crew members were killed when ... The Latest: Surveillance video shows moment of impactWashington Post all 161 news articles » |
2 Killed When Private Jet Crashes In Carlstadt, NJ While Attempting ...
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CARLSTADT, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – Two crewmembers were killed when a small private jet crashed in an industrial area near Teterboro Airport ...
2 dead as jet crashes on approach to Teterboro
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Two dead after small plane crashes at N.J.'s Teterboro Airport
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2 Killed as Jet Crashes While Landing at Teterboro Airport in New ...
New York Times-1 hour ago
Emergency workers near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where a Learjet crashed while trying to land on Monday. Credit Gregg Vigliotti for ...
Two dead after small plane crashes at N.J.'s Teterboro Airport
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2 Killed as Jet Crashes While Landing at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey
New York Times - 1 hour ago
Emergency workers near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where a Learjet crashed while trying to land on Monday. Credit Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times. A Learjet crashed near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey as it attempted to land on Monday ...
The Latest: Surveillance video shows moment of impact
Washington Post - 8 hours ago
CARLSTADT, N.J. — The Latest on a jet crash near a New Jersey airport (all times local):. 10:40 p.m.. Surveillance video from a nearby business shows the moment a jet crashed near a small airport outside New York City and burst into flames. The ...
2 killed when plane crashes at small airport outside New York City
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A police officer walks near the site of a deadly small plane crash near Teterboro Airport in Carlstadt, N.J., just west of New York City, Monday, May 15, 2017. ( Seth Wenig | AP ). By The Associated Press. CARLSTADT, N.J. (AP) -- Federal investigators ...
Teterboro Airport plane crash kills 2 near NYC
USA TODAY - 12 hours ago
BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. — A Learjet that had been on its way to Teterboro Airport plunged from the sky and struck two buildings in Carlstadt, N.J., Monday afternoon, causing a loud explosion and multiple fires as workers scrambled to safety and the plane ...
Federal Investigators Head to Deadly Plane Crash Site
NBC New York - 2 hours ago
Federal investigators Tuesday will sift through plane wreckage in New Jersey to determine the cause of the crash. Tracie Strahan reports. (Published 2 hours ago). What to Know. A plane crashed into an industrial neighborhood in Carlstadt Monday and on ...
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Can President Donald Trump share top secret information?
BBC News - 1 hour ago
Donald Trump has once again found himself at the centre of a storm - this time for reportedly sharing "codeword classified" information with the Russian ambassador. The information, which related to the use of laptops on aircraft, is understood to have ...
Report: Trump shared secret info about ISIS with Russians
Fox5NY - 33 minutes ago
The anonymous officials told the Post that the information Trump relayed during the Oval Office meeting had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement. They said it was considered so sensitive that details have been ...
Trump's Best Defense on Russia Is Incompetence
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
One way you know the president is in trouble is that, accused of collusion, his best defense is incompetence. Such is the case with Donald Trump's firing of James Comey. And such is the case with the latest scandal to hit this White House, that Trump ...
Trump shared highly classified intelligence about Islamic State with Russians, reports say
Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago
The White House lurched into a new crisis Monday over reports that President Trump had shared highly classified intelligence last week with visiting Russian officials in the Oval Office. In the meeting with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador to ...
Report: Trump revealed highly classified info to Russia
<a href="http://WRAL.com" rel="nofollow">WRAL.com</a> - 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to senior Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week, putting a source of intelligence on the Islamic State at risk, The Washington Post reported. The disclosu
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Here's How to Protect Yourself From Ransomware Attacks
New York Times - 1 hour ago
Ransomware, a decade-old form of malicious software that is often transmitted by email or web pop-ups, involves locking up people's data and threatening to destroy it if a ransom is not paid. Credit George Etheredge for The New York Times. A decade-old ...
The next ransomware attack will be worse than WannaCry
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
Ransomware isn't new, but it's increasingly popular and profitable. The concept is simple: Your computer gets infected with a virus that encrypts your files until you pay a ransom. It's extortion taken to its networked extreme. The criminals provide ...
Waah! WannaCry shifts the blame game into high gear
InfoWorld - 1 hour ago
Every security crisis presents the opportunity to point fingers, but that's just wasted energy. The criminals are at fault—and we need to work together to stop them. Email a friend. To. Use commas to separate multiple email addresses. From. Privacy ...
Microsoft's President Reflects On Cyberattack, Helping Pirates And The NSA
NPR - 2 hours ago
Microsoft has had a whirlwind last few days. The company's operating system, Windows, was the target of a massive cyberattack that took down hundreds of thousands of computers across 150 countries. While it's too soon to say the worst is over — there ...
"WannaCry" ransomware attack losses could reach $4 billion
CBS News - 2 hours ago
Global financial and economic losses from the "WannaCry" attack that crippled computers in at least 150 countries could swell into the billions of dollars, making it one of the most damaging incidents involving so-called ransomware. Cyber risk modeling ...
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Can President Donald Trump share top secret information?
BBC News - 1 hour ago
Donald Trump has once again found himself at the centre of a storm - this time for reportedly sharing "codeword classified" information with the Russian ambassador. The information, which related to the use of laptops on aircraft, is understood to have ...
Trump's Best Defense on Russia Is Incompetence
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
One way you know the president is in trouble is that, accused of collusion, his best defense is incompetence. Such is the case with Donald Trump's firing of James Comey. And such is the case with the latest scandal to hit this White House, that Trump ...
Report: Trump shared secret info about ISIS with Russians
Fox5NY - 27 minutes ago
The anonymous officials told the Post that the information Trump relayed during the Oval Office meeting had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement. They said it was considered so sensitive that details have been ...
Trump shared highly classified intelligence about Islamic State with Russians, reports say
Los Angeles Times - 9 hours ago
The White House lurched into a new crisis Monday over reports that President Trump had shared highly classified intelligence last week with visiting Russian officials in the Oval Office. In the meeting with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador to ...
Report: Trump revealed highly classified info to Russia
<a href="http://WRAL.com" rel="nofollow">WRAL.com</a> - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to senior Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week, putting a source of intelligence on the Islamic State at risk, The Washington Post reported. The disclosure ...
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Trump and Putin exchanged top secret information through Russian FM Lavrov
Pravda US President Donald Trump handed over secret data to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak during the visit of the Russian delegation to Washington, reports The Washington Post. The information ... Trump gave Russia classified intelligence: what we know so farVox Rubin: Trump is playing into Putin's handsMason City Globe Gazette Trump Reportedly Revealed Highly Classified Information To Russians During White House VisitBuzzFeed News New York Daily News -Jalopnik all 1,005 news articles » |
Microsoft's president blames NSA for WannaCry attack
New York Post - 20 hours ago
A top Microsoft executive partly blamed the US government for the WannaCry ransomware attack, saying hackers found a crucial Windows vulnerability in data that had been stockpiled by the NSA. First noticed on Friday, the WannaCry attack has affected at ...
Hospitals and health boards in Wales NOT affected by huge cyber attack on NHS
WalesOnline - May 12, 2017
Health boards, trusts and hospitals across Wales say they have NOT been affected by a cyber attack which has led to widespread IT problems in England. NHS England says it has been hit by an IT failure which has affected hospitals and trusts in London, ...
UK hospitals turn away patients after cyberattack cripples computers worldwide
Stuff.co.nz - May 12, 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May responds to the NHS cyber attack, reassuring the role of The National Cyber Security Centre. A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed to have been developed by the US National Security Agency hit ...
How to protect yourself from ransomware - everything you need to know to stop YOUR computer getting virus that ...
The Sun - May 13, 2017
A CYBER attack bought some NHS hospitals to a standstill this week with patients being turned away from A&E and operations being cancelled. The ransomware virus affected computers across nearly a hundred countries with Europol describing the attack ...
Cyber security expert blames breakdown in US intelligence protocols for Ransomware attack
Financial Express - May 13, 2017
A cyber security expert has said the attack, which temporarily crippled the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain and other parts of the world a day before, reveals the failure of the United States Government's "protocols for warning software ...
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Trump's trampling of political norms spurs strongman comparisons
Politico - 2 hours ago
On a recent visit to Washington, members of an official Chinese delegation told their congressional hosts that Jared Kushner, with his murky mix of business and political interests, reminded them of a wealthy young communist “princeling” in their own ...
Turkish opposition urges Trump to prod Erdogan on rights
Washington Post - 2 hours ago
ISTANBUL — Turkish opposition members and human rights defenders are urging President Donald Trump to raise the issue of Turkey's deteriorating human rights and democracy in talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday. Erdogan is ...
Turkish Leader Visits Trump Looking For 'New Beginning' With US Despite Obstacles
NPR - 1 hour ago
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is visiting the White House Tuesday, looking for a "new beginning" to U.S.-Turkey relations, even as the two countries clash over the Trump administration's decision to arm Kurdish forces in Syria. U.S. military ...
Trump and Turkey's president will seek to improve ties but are unlikely to resolve key disputes
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
President Trump will meet his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at the White House on Tuesday, hoping to forge friendlier ties between Washington and Ankara after the tense Obama years. The two leaders are unlikely to find common ground, ...
Commentary: How Trump's moves in Syria threaten US-Turkey alliance
Reuters - 1 hour ago
Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) stand near a U.S military vehicle in the town of Darbasiya next to the Turkish border, Syria April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said. By Mohamad Bazzi. After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won ...
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Behind the Scenes as Another Crisis Hits the Trump White House
<a href="http://NBCNews.com" rel="nofollow">NBCNews.com</a> - 8 hours ago
The Trump administration, already in near-perpetual crisis management mode, scrambled again Monday night to respond to yet another explosive allegation. This time it was reports that President Donald Trump had disclosed highly sensitive classified ...
Shouting reportedly heard near White House office
New York Daily News - 5 hours ago
As the Trump White House continues to endure yet another evening in crisis mode, this perhaps its darkest night of the soul yet, reporters assigned to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue say tensions are running high. Following the briefest of briefings in which ...
CBS: Big White House shake-up coming … sometime
Hot Air - 21 hours ago
Stop us if you've heard this before. In fact, White House correspondent Major Garrett has heard this almost since Inauguration Day — that Donald Trump has grown unhappy with the performance of his executive team, and that big changes are coming.
Read This: White House staffers manipulate Trump by giving him fake news
A.V. Club - 9 hours ago
We all know what Trump thinks about the press, but that apparently doesn't stop him from voraciously devouring whatever articles come across his desk or whichever news anchors penetrate his beady, thousand-yard stare. A new piece from Politico draws ...
Trump surrogate who is cool, calm and collected under fire
The Straits Times - May 14, 2017
More and more people are criss-crossing US President Donald Trump's path in the ongoing flap over possible Russian involvement in his election. US correspondent Paul Zach takes a look at two who took their turns in the White House "hot seat" last week ...
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A group of cybersecurity experts say they have unearthed ties between an American hacker who maintains a neo-Nazi website and an internet campaign to smear Emmanuel Macron days before he was elected president of France.
AP News in Brief at 6:04 am EDT
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
Analysis: Trump intel sharing likely to leave allies anxious. WASHINGTON — For months, U.S. allies have anxiously wondered if President Donald Trump could be trusted with some of the world's most sensitive national security secrets. Now, just a few ...
The Latest: Trump and Jordan's King Abdullah set phone call
Washington Post - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the report that President Donald Trump shared classified information with Russian officials (all times EDT):. ___. 4:30 a.m.. Jordan says King Abdullah II is to speak by phone Tuesday with President Donald Trump. The Royal ...
Can President Donald Trump share top secret information?
BBC News - 46 minutes ago
Donald Trump has once again found himself at the centre of a storm - this time for reportedly sharing "codeword classified" information with the Russian ambassador. The information, which related to the use of laptops on aircraft, is understood to have ...
Report: Trump Revealed Highly Classified Info to Russia
New York Times - 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to senior Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week, putting a source of intelligence on the Islamic State at risk, The Washington Post reported. The disclosure ...
Trump's Best Defense on Russia Is Incompetence
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
One way you know the president is in trouble is that, accused of collusion, his best defense is incompetence. Such is the case with Donald Trump's firing of James Comey. And such is the case with the latest scandal to hit this White House, that Trump ...
US Officials 'Warned Israel' Not to Share Sensitive Intel With Trump
Newsweek - 1 hour ago
U.S. intelligence officials reportedly warned their Israeli counterparts to exert caution in sharing top secret information with Donald Trump's administration for fear of it being passed to Russia and then to Moscow's ally and Israel's arch-enemy, Iran ...
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Can President Donald Trump share top secret information?
BBC News Donald Trump has once again found himself at the centre of a storm - this time for reportedly sharing "codeword classified" information with the Russian ambassador. The information, which related to the use of laptops on aircraft, is understood to have ... Trump's Best Defense on Russia Is IncompetenceBloomberg US Officials 'Warned Israel' Not to Share Sensitive Intel With TrumpNewsweek Report: Trump revealed highly classified info to RussiaNew York Daily News Daily Beast -NPR -Newsday -ABC News all 999 news articles » |
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Российский милиардер Олег Дерипаска подал в суд на агентство Associated Press. Поводом стала статья о связях Дерипаски с главой избирательного штаба Дональда Трампа – Полом Манафортом. AP заявило, что будет отстаивать свою позицию в суде.
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North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test may be nearly as big a deal as the country’s propaganda machine claims.
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At Least Two People Have Been Killed in the Latest Venezuela Protests by Hannah Dreier and Christine Armario / AP
(CARACAS) — A day that began with largely peaceful protests against Venezuela’s socialist government took a violent turn Monday as fierce clashes between state security and demonstrators killed at least two people.
Thousands hauled folding chairs, beach umbrellas and protest signs onto main roads for a 12-hour “sit-in against the dictatorship,” the latest in a month and a half of street demonstrations that have resulted in dozens of deaths.
The protest in Caracas against President Nicolas Maduro was largely peaceful, but outside the capital demonstrators clashed with police and national guardsmen. In the western state of Tachira near Venezuela’s border with Colombia, two men were reported dead in separate demonstrations: Luis Alviarez, 18, and Diego Hernandez, 33.
Witness videos taken in Tachira showed authorities launching tear gas and demonstrators throwing rocks and setting an armored truck on fire. In another video, a young woman stands on a street, her face covered in blood.
Elsewhere, three police officers were shot in the central state of Carabobo, including one left in critical condition after being struck in the head, authorities said. In Lara, a vehicle ran over three protesters.
The violence added to a mounting toll of bloodshed and chaos as Venezuela’s opposition vows to step up near-daily demonstrations and Maduro shows no intention of conceding to opposition demands. Maduro is vowing to resolve the crisis by convening a special assembly to rewrite the nation’s constitution, while the opposition is demanding an immediate presidential election.
Polls indicate the great majority of Venezuelans want Maduro gone as violent crime soars and the country falls into economic ruin, with triple-digit inflation and shortages of many basic foods and medical supplies.
International pressure on the troubled South American nation is continuing to increase, with European Union foreign ministers calling Monday for Venezuela to hold elections and warning that “violence and the use of force will not resolve the crisis in the country.”
The Organization of American States will hold another special session to discuss Venezuela’s spiraling political crisis later this month.
Venezuela announced in late April that it would be leaving the Washington-based OAS, which seeks to defend democracy throughout the hemisphere, and its representative was not present at Monday’s meeting scheduling the upcoming event. Maduro and top administration leaders contend the OAS is meddling in Venezuela’s domestic affairs, infringing on its sovereignty and trying to remove the government from power.
The protests were triggered by a government move to nullify the opposition-controlled congress in late March, but the demonstrations have morphed into a general airing of grievances against the unpopular socialist administration.
As demonstrations take over Caracas almost daily, normal life has continued, but the atmosphere is suffused with uncertainty. At fancy cafes, patrons show each other the latest videos of student protesters getting hurt or defaced statues of the late President Hugo Chavez on their phones. Working class people who have to traverse the capital for their jobs have adjusted their schedules to account for traffic shutdowns and take siestas to wait out clashes between protesters and police.
On Monday, demonstrators assembled a giant rosary with balloons hanging from a Caracas highway overpass. A group of flamenco dancers dressed in black performed for the crowds. Others simply sat and held signs declaring their resistance.
Former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said the opposition would take its protests “to another stage” as Maduro continues his push to convoke a special assembly tasked with rewriting the nation’s constitution.
“We are against this fraudulent process,” Capriles said on his radio broadcast.
Foro Penal, a Venezuelan nonprofit group whose lawyers are representing many of those detained, said there were 35 arrests Monday.
More than three dozen people have been killed, hundreds injured and as many as 2,000 arrested in nearly seven weeks of demonstrations. Those killed are largely young men in their 20s and 30s, protesters or those who happened to be in nearby areas during clashes.
Maduro blames the opposition for the violence, claiming its leaders are fomenting unrest to remove him from power. The opposition maintains state security and civilian-armed pro-government groups known as “colectivos” are responsible for the bloodshed.
Few arrests have been made and the death toll is fast approaching the violence seen during protests in 2014.
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Factbox: Levels of Classification for Government Informationby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
On Monday, U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and other members of the Trump administration responded to published reports that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office earlier this month. What are the levels of classified information? Top Secret Secret Confidential What do the levels mean? The levels indicate the importance of the classified information to national security, including military plans...
Trump again reveals his dangerous incompetence
CNN - 1 hour ago
Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review, and a former CNN producer and correspondent. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. (CNN) The Washington Post published yet another bombshell ...
Another Trump crisis craters GOP agenda
CNN - 1 hour ago
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's governing agenda, which only 10 days ago showed signs of gaining steam, appears to have derailed after he allegedly shared classified information and dismissed FBI director James Comey, both of which ...
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador
Washington Post - 5 hours ago
President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump's disclosures jeopardized a critical source of ...
Trump's trust problem
Politico - 34 minutes ago
President Donald Trump was accused of leaking highly classified information to Russian officials, and White House officials wanted to fiercely rebut the charges. But when senior national security officials strode to a podium on the West Wing driveway ...
Trump Revealed Highly Classified Intelligence to Russia, in Break With Ally, Officials Say
New York Times - 4 hours ago
President Trump met with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, in the White House last week. American journalists were barred, but Russia released photographs. Credit Russian Foreign Ministry. WASHINGTON — President Trump boasted about ...
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'WannaCry' ransomware shares code with Sony hack, raising possibility of North Korea connection
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
Cybersecurity researchers said Monday that the massive "WannaCry" virus that has infected computers around the globe was developed using some of the same code used in the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, raising the possibility that the hackers may have a ...
The Latest: Cyberattack hits schools, hospital in Taiwan
SFGate - 47 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the global extortion cyberattack that hit dozens of countries (all times local):. 10:40 p.m.. Taiwanese state media say the WannaCry cyberattack infected computers in 10 schools, the national power company, a hospital and ...
Trail of global cyberattack could lead to North Korea
ABC News - 1 hour ago
Cyber security researchers tracking the global cyberattack tonight say the trail could lead back to North Korea. Analysts from Google and and at least three major cybersecurity firms have pointed to a piece of code that appeared in both an earlier ...
WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack Slows as Authorities Hunt for Source
TIME - 3 hours ago
(NEW YORK) — The global cyberattack that took computer files hostage appeared to slow on Monday as authorities worked to catch the extortionists behind it — a difficult task that involves searching for digital clues and following the money. Among ...
Signs show possible link between ransomware hacking and North Korea
USA TODAY - 4 minutes ago
Clues point to a link between a hacking group connected to North Korea and the ransomware computer attacks that have crippled computer systems worldwide, according to two cyber security firms. Experts at the global cyber-security firm Symantec found ...
