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 28, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Alysis Morrissey was sitting at her desk last October when she stumbled upon a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “It said we only have 12 years to change our course and prevent a climate catastrophe from threatening life...
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 | Aug 22, 2019 | Health
WASHINGTON – Celebrity activists and members of Congress are using their platforms to call attention to the many mental health issues facing African-Americans. “We’ve got to get to the bottom of this,” said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of...
