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...
by Josephine Chu | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The parents of Christopher Allen, a 26-year-old British-American freelance journalist killed while covering the civil war in South Sudan, said at a vigil Monday on the two-year anniversary of his death that the South Sudanese government should be...
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by Kimberly Jin and Apoorva Mittal | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, National Security
Washington – In World War II, William Walker served in the Navy in the Philippines. It was the last war when black and white servicemen were separated according to their race, and black troops were not accorded the same level of respect as their white counterparts....
by Ebony JJ Curry | Jul 31, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON – With over 250,000 radicalized child soldiers in the United States, violent extremism has become a nationwide issue. Clarion Project along with former extremists Tania Joya hosts their Preventing Violent Extremism Training program in downtown D.C. at...
by Apoorva Mittal | Jul 19, 2019 | National Security
WASHINGTON — When she left the military in 2005, Jodie M. Grenier went from being on a team of intelligence analysts reporting to then-Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis, with a top security clearance, to waiting tables. “It was frustrating. I had a very...
