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A terrorist organization or nefarious nation state decides to derail the global internet by faulting the undersea fiber optic cables that connect the world. These cables, which run along the ocean floor, carry almost all transoceanic digital communication, allowing you to send a Facebook message to a friend in Dubai, or receive an email from your cousin in Australia.
Inside a classroom at a community college in Dallas, about two dozen women took turns sharing their names, hometowns and what they hoped would be their future titles. It was part of a training held by EMILY's List, an organization dedicated to electing women at all levels of government who support abortion rights.
Much of what we learned came from American journalists, who brought us revelation after revelation about how the Kremlin meddled in the presidential election. Through these reporters' domestic sources-in the White House, Congress, and the intelligence community-we learned how Russians bought Facebook ads aimed at sowing division; how Russian government agencies hacked the Democratic National Committee and congressional races ; how Russians loosely affiliated with the Kremlin reached out to the Trump campaign ; and how the Kremlin turned the popular Kaspersky Labs anti-virus software into a spying tool.
Congressional investigators say they are increasingly concerned about threats to the coming midterm election with multiple probes into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election still incomplete with no immediate end in sight. Add Russia Investigation as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Russia Investigation news, video, and analysis from ABC News.
A group of Facebook users plan to ask a federal appellate court to revive a lawsuit accusing the company of violating their privacy by tracking them throughout the Web via the "Like" button. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, Calif.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised concerns about the role of social media in the 2018 Kremlin race as Moscow continues to come under fire for allegedly using platforms including Facebook and Twitter to meddle in last year's White House contest. "We need to look carefully at how some companies work in internet, in social media, and how widely they are involved in our domestic political life," Mr. Putin told Russian lawmakers Monday, Reuters reported .
The Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating Jill Stein and her campaign for possible collusion with Russian state actors during the 2016 presidential race. The Green Party candidate vehemently denied any wrongdoing, and Stein's defenders say this inquiry is just modern-day McCarthyism .
Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the web. Days earlier, the veteran journalist had come out live on air as HIV-positive, a taboo-breaking revelation that drew responses from hundreds of Russians fighting their own lonely struggles with the virus.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers is pushing legislation that he says will maintain a "free and open" internet, but a former member of the Federal Communications Commission said it would do anything but. An industry group representing content giants such as Google, Facebook and Amazon also is criticizing the bill, calling it "net neutrality in name only."
On its Facebook page, CIA's "staff" were fake personalities such as "James Falls O'Brien," whose photo was taken from a hairstyle model catalog, and "Jade Julia," whose image came from a web page called "Beautiful Girls Wallpaper." If a customer showed up looking to buy a car from Cars International A, often referred to as CIA, Abid Awan - who was managing partner of the dealership while also earning $160,000 handling IT for House Democrats - would frequently simply go across the street to longstanding dealership called AAA Motors and get one.
The FCC voted yesterday to turn over the flow of Internet traffic to commercial entities the day after traffic " into and out of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and other companies " was, suspiciously and intentionally, redirected through a Russian node. The FCC vote was 3 to 2 along party lines, with Republicans in the majority.
The tax reform bill now in Congress is a "crime being perpetrated against ordinary people," U.S. Sen. Ed Markey told an audience in Lowell Sunday night. Markey addressed an audience of about 150 people at UMass Lowell, speaking on a wide range of topics, but frequently returned to the tax package and the budget bill, which Congress passed in late October.
Some women, and men, worry the same climate that's emboldening women to speak up about sexual misconduct could backfire by making some men wary of female colleagues. Forget private meetings and get-to-know-you dinners.
The 2017 prize will be handed to ICAN, a global network which campaigned for a United Nations nuclear weapons ban treaty, at an awards ceremony in Oslo this weekend. CND, along with other members of the ICAN-UK network, will host their own ceremony outside the Ministry of Defence to mark the prestigious award and raise awareness about the UN ban treaty.
A gay man who was denied a marriage license in Kentucky two years ago by a county clerk who refused to issue licenses for same-sex marriages will run to unseat her next year, he said on Wednesday. David Ermold, of Morehead, Kentucky, announced his candidacy as a Democrat against Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who drew worldwide attention when she refused to grant the licenses to same-sex couples, citing Apostolic Christian beliefs.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has a challenger in the March 2, 2018 Republican primary, and the race could be one of the most interesting Republican battles next year. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has a challenger in the March 2, 2018 Republican primary, and the race could be one of the most interesting Republican battles next year.
The Trump FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai appears dead set on killing net neutrality. Despite a massive public outcry against the changes, the Republican-led commission seems almost guaranteed to implement new rules allowing internet service providers to throttle and deny access to any online content they want, leading to a whole host of evils including censorship, tiered pricing not only for speed but also for content, shakedowns of content providers, and dedicated fast lanes for big companies that pay the extortionary tolls.
A second woman has accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of inappropriate touching, saying Monday that he put his hand on her bottom as they posed for a picture at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010 - after he had begun his career in the Senate. Lindsay Menz told CNN that the interaction made her feel "gross."
An all-volunteer group of activists has defied the odds by collecting hundreds of thousands of voter signatures for a 2018 initiative to overhaul redistricting in Michigan - without having to pay a dime for a signature. It's a rarity in state politics outside of anti-abortion ballot drives, which have had a large base of support within churches and crucial organizational backing from Right to Life and other organizations.