January 6, 2017 Intel report on Russian interference finds no documents forged No documents related to the hacks of the Democratic National Committee emails or Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta’s emails appear to be altered or forged, according to a declassified U.S. intelligence report on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election released Friday.
January 6, 2017 Intel report says Putin ordered campaign to influence US election A declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday directly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering a campaign to influence the U.S. election and hurt Hillary Clinton’s candidacy – findings made public after officials briefed President-elect Donald Trump.
January 6, 2017 US designates election infrastructure as 'critical' Citing increasingly sophisticated cyber bad actors and an election infrastructure that's "vital to our national interests," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Friday that he's designating U.S. election systems critical infrastructure, a move that provides more federal help for state and local governments to keep their election systems safe from tampering.
January 6, 2017 North Korea's nuclear capability growing every day, top US diplomat warns North Korea's weapons capabilities have shown a "qualitative improvement" in the past year, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat said Thursday.
January 6, 2017 Trump beats the press over his feud with the CIA and alliance with Assange First it was Donald Trump against the CIA.
January 5, 2017 Bin Laden son put on US terror list The Obama administration Thursday added the son of Al-Qaeda founder and September 11th mastermind Usama bin Laden to a terror list, marking the 239th terrorist designation from the State Department since 2012, a State Department spokesperson told Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ.
January 5, 2017 US imposes terrorism-related sanctions against bin Laden son The Obama administration imposed sanctions Thursday on a son of Sept. 11 mastermind Usama bin Laden, saying the younger bin Laden poses a risk to U.S. national security.
January 3, 2017 Sen. Mike Rounds: Time for a real strategy to keep Americans safe from cyber threats It should be apparent to all Americans that the United States is not immune to damaging cyber-attacks from hostile foreign nations and other bad actors. We must update our national security policies to deter such attacks before a future debilitating attack occurs, possibly on civilian critical infrastructure.
December 31, 2016 Official: Cuba terror listing won’t affect US push for embassy, diplomatic ties The Obama administration plans to proceed on forging diplomatic ties with Cuba – and potentially opening an embassy -- regardless of whether the country stays on the list of state sponsors of terrorism.