by Hangyun Kim | Oct 14, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Internet freedom in the United States dropped for the fourth consecutive year amid a global trend of countries using the COVID-19 pandemic as cover for silencing digital platforms, according to the Freedom on the Net 2020 report by Freedom House released...
by Augusta Saraiva | Oct 8, 2020 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Nineteen years after the largest terrorist attack on American soil, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center said Thursday that the U.S. is still at war with al-Qaida. “I personally have my phone on me 24/7 waiting for the alert that something...
by Dalia Faheid | Oct 8, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security finalized a new rule Tuesday that broadens its ability to investigate insider threats by eliminating key Privacy Act protections for all past and current employees regardless of their security clearance. DHS said...
by Cheyanne M. Daniels | Oct 7, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – The head of a House cybersecurity subcommittee warned social media moguls that she is concerned that their platforms are being used to target and spread misinformation to Black voters in the upcoming election, a letter she released Wednesday said. In the...
by Karli Goldenberg | Oct 7, 2020 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON– Just one week after President Donald Trump told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during the first presidential debate, the Department of Homeland Security’s domestic threat assessment identified white supremacist extremism as “the most...
by Arnab Mondal | Oct 5, 2020 | Featured, National Security
New productivity expectations for Department of Veterans Affairs mental health counselors requiring them to see more patients could be detrimental to the quality of care they deliver, a Government Accountability Office report warns. The Veterans Health...
