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U.S. suspects Iranians created website threatening U.S. election officials Reuters 12/23/2020 By Mark Hosenball © Reuters/POOL FILE PHOTO: FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks during a press conference on a national security matter at the Department of Justice in Washington
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. security agencies said on Wednesday they had highly credible information indicating that Iranian cyber actors were responsible for creating a website earlier this month featuring death threats aimed at U.S. election officials.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Homeland Security Department s Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a statement that the Enemies of the People website, which surfaced after the U.S. election but now appears dormant, demonstrated an ongoing Iranian intent to create divisions and mistrust in the United States and undermine public confidence in the U.S. electoral process.
U.S. charges Kenyan militant with researching 9/11-style airplane hijacking Reuters 12/16/2020
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged a Kenya-born militant with terrorism-related offenses, including conspiring to hijack aircraft for a 9/11-style attack on an American target on behalf of the Somali-based al-Shabaab militant group.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the U.S. Justice Department said that Cholo Abdi Abdullah, aged 30, was arrested in the Philippines in July 2019 and transferred to the United States on Tuesday to face six federal charges related to alleged terrorism.
At a hearing held via electronic link on Wednesday morning, Abdullah told a U.S. magistrate judge he was pleading not guilty to all of the charges. His defense lawyer agreed with the judge that Abdullah should remain in custody pending a hearing in January.
U.S. lawmakers press prison authorities on inmate COVID-19 vaccination plans Reuters 12/16/2020
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than two dozen members of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday called on federal prison and health officials for details about how inmates will be vaccinated for COVID-19, questioning whether the most vulnerable prisoners will have priority access.
In a letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons director Michael Carvajal and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Dr. Robert Redfield, 26 lawmakers, led by Democratic Representative Bobby Scott, expressed concerns about the prison system s existing plan for vaccine distribution. We are deeply concerned that the current plan places the most vulnerable incarcerated individuals . behind incarcerated individuals in minimum security facilities the Congress members letter said. It said that under present plans, prisoners who are in open bay housing would get the virus before prisoners under ti
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