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Aid groups helping Ukraine face both cyber and physical threats
CNN
Employees at Insecurity Insight, a Switzerland-based nonprofit, received a string of malicious links and pornographic material on their cell phones after publishing a report last month on Russian attacks on hospitals in Ukraine.
The phishing messages were "on a scale we had never experienced" and came as staff members spent late nights documenting the war's destruction, Christina Wille, the director of Insecurity Insight, told CNN. She suspects it was an (unsuccessful) attempt to deter her team from reporting on Russia's war in Ukraine.
It's just one example of a range of digital threats facing humanitarian-focused organizations as Russian President Vladimir Putin shows no sign of ending his brutal war on Ukraine.
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An Arizona man was indicted by a federal grand jury this week on several firearms charges, having been accused by the US Justice Department of planning a mass shooting targeting Black people and other minorities at a May Atlanta concert in hopes of inciting a race war before the upcoming presidential election.
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House Republicans voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified material and declined to bring charges.
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UAW members in Michigan don’t think the union’s endorsement of Biden will sway their pro-Trump peers
Walter Robinson Jr. bets about 40% of his Ford Motor Company co-workers are for Donald Trump. He doesn’t get it.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday expressed frustration that Hamas has submitted “numerous changes” to a US-backed proposal for a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza – a development that casts further doubt on the prospects of quickly securing the deal the US hopes will bring “an enduring end” to the war.
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The US and Ukraine are expected to sign a bilateral security pact on the sidelines of the G7 in Italy on Thursday, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN, in a deal that lays out a path for the US’ long-term security relationship with Kyiv but that could also be undone by future US administrations.