by Joe Snell | Sep 28, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Despite a significant increase in dollars and manpower, the U.S. has had only “modest success” in encouraging the return of refugees to Iraq’s Nineveh Plain and Western Nineveh, according to an official on the U.S. Agency for International...
by Aishwarya Airy | Sep 26, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Although Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said he takes responsibility for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi a year ago, U.N Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard and 11 Democratic members of Congress demanded complete accountability...
by Kimberly Jin | Sep 2, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Virtually unheard of five years ago, “ransomware” attacks have emerged as a serious and growing risk to governments and businesses operating in the digital age. Ransomware is designed to lock up critical computer data until the victim pays hackers a...
by Kimberly Jin and Apoorva Mittal | Aug 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Tammy Hineline, a Marine Corps veteran, shared her kayaking experience with her father at Sunday’s storytelling graduation show. The show followed a seven-week storytelling class organized by the Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP), a non-profit...
by Dwight A. Weingarten | Aug 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young faced a crisis less than a week into his new job when a ransomware attack hit the city’s computer systems — cutting off emails and shutting down online bill collections for everything from utilities to real estate...
by Noah Broder | Aug 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A wave of ransomware attacks has affected cities across the country, recently hitting more than a dozen Texas towns and last year shutting down Baltimore’s city government. Just this week, there are signs that portions of the technology that...
