FBI Director Says China's Hacking Aimed at U.S. Infrastructure to 'Induce Panic'

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Chinese government hackers are constantly trying to infiltrate the computer systems of U.S. water treatment facilities and energy grids in a bid to be “pre-positioned” for inducing panic, according to an alarming new speech from FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Remember When the U.S. Secretly Built a Social Network to Destabilize Cuba?

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The House of Representatives passed a law this week that would force China-based ByteDance to divest from the US version of its popular app TikTok or face a ban in the country. And while the bill’s fate in the Senate remains uncertain, plenty of politicians and members of the U.S. military establishment insist this…

TikTok's Campaign to Stop U.S. Ban 'Backfires,' Enraging Congress

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TikTok sent a push notification to United States users on Thursday morning asking them to call their local representative to “Stop a TikTok shutdown.” The app refers to a bipartisan bill gaining momentum in Congress this week which could ba

FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself

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Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that an unknown federal agency had breached official White House policy and used secretive methods to conduct a business deal with the NSO Group, a

Chairman of the House panel probing Covid's origins says lawmakers haven't 'seen all that we want to see' but they're following 'the breadcrumbs'

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Rep. Brad Wenstrup
Rep. Brad Wenstrup

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China spent years angrily trying to shut down the theory that COVID-19 came from its labs. It failed.

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This aerial view shows the P4 laboratory in Wuhan which conducts research on the world's most dangerous diseases.

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