TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s intelligence minister has warned the West that his country could push for a nuclear weapon if crippling international sanctions on Tehran remain in place, state television reported Tuesday. The remarks by Mahmoud Alavi mark a rare occasion that a government official says Iran could reverse its course on the nuclear …
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CAIRO (AP) – Sayid Ismael Baraka, a Sudanese-American visiting from Atlanta, was playing with his three children, and his wife was making tea, when the gunmen stormed into his family village in Sudan’s Darfur region. The gunmen went through the village of Jabal, shooting people. The 36-year-old Baraka was shot to death as he rushed …
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HONG KONG (AP) – A Hong Kong court on Tuesday denied bail for government critic and newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai who is facing charges under a sweeping new national security law. The ruling by the Court of Final Appeal comes amid heavy pressure from the Chinese government and state media to keep Lai in custody, …
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Cybersecurity experts fear the SolarWinds hack laid the groundwork for a larger attack that the federal government is not prepared to handle. After attackers exploited vulnerabilities in SolarWinds’ computer network management software to breach federal systems, a race began to fortify cyber defenses before additional attacks damage critical infrastructure and cause economic instability. Some possible …
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WASHINGTON — The Senate has overwhelmingly voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick to oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs. The Senate confirmed Denis McDonough as VA secretary by a vote of 87-7 on Monday. McDonough was President Barack Obama’s chief of staff. McDonough will oversee a sprawling agency that has presented organizational challenges for …
