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A woman walks through an exhibition by American artist and filmmaker Laura Poitras, near the art work "Anarchist" by Laura Poitras in collaboration with Henrik Moltke, at the N.K.B. gallery in Berlin, Germany, on Friday, June 18, 2021. The exhibition by Poitras, known for her award-winning 2014 documentary on former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, is on display at the gallery until Aug. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
NSA to NSO: NY filmmakers explore circles of surveillance

By Frank Jordans Jun. 18, 2021 11:01 AM EDT

This poster provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Maxsim Yukabets. Yakubets, 33, is best known as co-leader of a cybergang that calls itself Evil Corp. Foreign keyboard criminals with no fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered US fuel shortages and, most recently, a now could be responsible for a disruption in global food supply chains. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP)
Global war on ransomware? Hurdles hinder the US response

By Alan Suderman Jun. 05, 2021 08:31 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 19, 2009 file photo, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon with a picture of the late spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini in the background, during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei was among the first and most powerful world leaders to suggest the coronavirus could be a biological weapon created by the U.S. (Meisam Hosseini/Hayat News Agency via AP, File)
The superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories

By David Klepper, Farnoush Amiri And Beatrice Dupuy Feb. 15, 2021 12:10 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Pennsylvania

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2021 09:00 AM EST
Philadelphia Inquirer. Feb. 1, 2021. Editorial: After barely surviving 2020, Pa.’s democracy might not survive the Republican effort to...

In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks from the Senate floor to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Now that the House has impeached President Donald Trump for the second time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must figure out the best strategy for arguing the case before the Senate. Senate rules say the trial must start soon after the chamber receives the article of impeachment, which cites “incitement of insurrection” after an angry mob of Trump’s supporters invaded the Capitol last week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The Latest: Trump declassifies Crossfire Hurricane material

Jan. 19, 2021 04:32 PM EST

Michael White stands for a portrait Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in San Diego. The Navy veteran kept a handwritten document detailing the nearly two years he spent imprisoned in Iran. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the manuscript. In it, he catalogues physical abuse from his jailers and taunts from fellow inmates while held on dubious allegations. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Diary shows how quest for love landed Navy vet in Iran jail

By Eric Tucker Jan. 16, 2021 12:52 AM EST

FILE - The U.S. Treasury Department building viewed from the Washington Monument, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Washington. Hackers got into computers at the U.S. Treasury Department and possibly other federal agencies, touching off a government response involving the National Security Council. Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot said Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 that the government is aware of reports about the hacks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)
Hacked networks will need to be burned 'down to the ground'

By Frank Bajak Dec. 18, 2020 10:42 PM EST

FILE - This Nov. 12, 2020 selfie photo provided by the Renown Regional Medical Center shows Dr. Jacob Keeperman, the Renown Transfer and Operations Center medical director who made the photo on the opening day of the Renown Regional Medical Center's alternative care site located in a parking garage. On Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting this photo at an auxiliary care site for COVID-19 patients proves that the coronavirus pandemic is a hoax. The photo, which shows empty hospital beds, was taken the day the site was opened, and patients had yet to arrive. (Jacob Keeperman/Renown Regional Medical Center via AP)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Dec. 04, 2020 02:31 PM EST

President-elect Joe Biden attends a national security briefing at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden's DIY transition proceeds without Trump assistance

By Steve Peoples, Deb Riechmann And Zeke Miller Nov. 18, 2020 12:17 AM EST

President-elect Joe Biden attends a national security briefing at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden's DIY transition proceeds without Trump assistance

By Steve Peoples, Deb Riechmann And Zeke Miller Nov. 17, 2020 05:40 PM EST

A man wearing a "Q" mask walks past city hall on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)
Hawaii Democrat Kahele wins to succeed Gabbard in US House

By Audrey Mcavoy Nov. 04, 2020 06:04 AM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2019, file photo, Palantir CEO Alex Karp arrives for the Tech for Good summit in Paris. Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, Palantir Technologies is finally going public. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
Secretive, never profitable Palantir makes its market debut

By Frank Bajak Sep. 30, 2020 06:00 AM EDT

Democratic state Rep. Gael Tarleton, a candidate for Secretary of State, poses for a photo Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Seattle. Tarleton faces two-term Secretary of State Kim Wyman, the fifth Republican to hold the office since 1965 and one of only three statewide elected Republicans on the West Coast. Tarleton, of Seattle, is leaving the Legislature in December after serving four terms. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Secretary of state: GOP incumbent vs. Democratic lawmaker

By Rachel La Corte Sep. 24, 2020 12:26 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2019, file photo, Palantir CEO Alex Karp arrives for the Tech for Good summit in Paris. Palantir Technologies Inc., a data-mining company with deep ties to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, has shed a good deal of its trademark secrecy about its business in filing for a Wall Street stock offering, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
Secretive Palantir lifts veil before Wall Street stock sale

By Frank Bajak Aug. 25, 2020 09:07 PM EDT

FILE - In this July 23, 2020, file photo James Robson, a biomedical engineering graduate student, holds a swab and specimen vial in the new COVID-19, on-campus testing lab at Boston University in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
US jabs Russia over claim of spreading virus disinformation

By Eric Tucker And Daria Litvinova Jul. 29, 2020 08:34 AM EDT

FILE - In this July 10, 2020, file photo healthcare workers test patients in their cars at a drive-thru coronavirus testing site in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
US officials say Russia is spreading virus disinformation

By Eric Tucker Jul. 28, 2020 06:04 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Jul. 08, 2020 03:56 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ July 7 The Washington Post on...

Ivan Safronov, an adviser to the director of Russia's state space corporation, stands behind bars in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Safronov, a former journalist who worked as an adviser to the director of the Russian state space corporation, pleaded innocent to the treason charges against him. Ivan Safronov, a former journalist who served as an adviser to Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin, was detained in Moscow by agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main KGB successor agency. (Sofia Sandurskaya, Moscow News Agency photo via AP)
Russian space official, ex-journalist, charged with treason

By Vladimir Isachenkov Jul. 07, 2020 02:57 PM EDT

AM Prep-Cooler Copy

By The Associated Press Jun. 29, 2020 03:05 AM EDT
TRUMP DENIES BEING BRIEFED ON RUSSIAN BOUNTIES ON U.S. TROOPS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has denied that he had been briefed...

President Donald Trump speaks as he receives a briefing on the 2020 hurricane season in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Chinese grad students may be next hit by US-China tensions

By Matthew Lee May. 28, 2020 05:35 PM EDT