'Section 702 is indispensable in keeping Americans safe from a whole barrage of fast moving foreign threats,' Wray insisted. FISA Section 702 has been credited for helping intel officers thwart terror attacks on U.S. soil, but has also been prone to abuse with spying on U.S. citizens
Europe is getting a little more serious about challenging China’s vast espionage campaign against the West. On Monday, the United Kingdom charged two Britons, Christopher Cash, a 29-year-old parliamentary researcher, and Christopher Berry, a 32-year-old former teacher, with spying for China. The two men were first arrested more than a year ago, but U.K. prosecutors […]
Chinese firms are racing to set up factories in Mexico to bypass US tariffs and sanctions.
The main suspect, named as Thomas R, is accused of spying for the Chinese Ministry of State Security.
The Netherlands remains an important target for Russian espionage thanks to its defence industry, the high-tech sector and the international organisations based here, the military security service MIVD said on Thursday in its annual report. “The threat from Russia is major,” director Peter Reesink said. “The Netherlands is an attractive target, partly because it is an important military hub. There are also many data hubs in the North Sea, which are of interest for possible sabotage.” The...
Rates of violence towards teachers and between students have doubled since the pandemic. These videos of brutality and scorn are the norm, not outliers.
In 2010, Noah Wilson-Rich was juggling several jobs while earning his PhD in biology at Tufts University: He taught classes at several nearby universities, and one day a week, tended bar at a cafe in the lobby of the Hult International Business School. On one of his shifts, he overheard customers discussing a competition for entrepreneurs. The next day, he entered, pitching a company that would gather insect health data at beehives. “They were like, ‘The bartender won?’ said Wilson-Rich....
Thanks to near-monopolies in many industries, corporations are seeing record profits as consumers struggle with high pricesWe learned this week that the Consumer Price Index climbed 3.5% in March from a year earlier, up from 3.2% in February, and faster than most economists anticipated.This poses a conundrum for central bankers who have made it clear they want to see further evidence that inflation is cooling before they cut interest rates.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a...
Recent satellite data underscores a growing environmental challenge for China: significant land subsidence threatening urban areas.
Many Chinese Americans have signaled that they could be done with progressive candidates in San Francisco ahead of upcoming elections. Several local positions are up for grabs this November, including mayor, city Attorney, district attorney, sheriff and four seats on the Board of Education. While Chinese Americans have previously been a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, many are spearheading or supporting efforts to return to the political center over issues like crime and education. The Wall...
FBI Director Christoper Wray suggested efforts from Chinese hackers to infiltrate U.S. infrastructure are motivated by something “even more sinister” than an economic incentive. Wray spoke at the Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats on Thursday to deliver the latest update on Volt Typhoon, a group that, according to the FBI, is sponsored […]
The House voted last week in favor of reauthorizing the surveillance bill that has been exploited by the FBI hundreds of thousands of times to spy on American citizens.Blaze News previously noted that it was this legislation that elements of the intelligence community exploited to spy on members of the Trump campaign in 2016 without probable cause. It was also used to violate — without warrant — the privacy of multitudes of Jan. 6 protesters, congressional campaign donors, and BLM...