Month: January 2023

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Casey Gannon, CNN Former Trump-era Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli is testifying before a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, on Thursday. Cuccinelli headed into the grand jury area just before 10 a.m. ET at the federal courthouse, where prosecutors looking at efforts to undermine the 2020

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The FBI has seized the computer infrastructure used by a notorious ransomware gang which has extorted more than $100 million from hospitals, schools and other victims around the world, US officials announced Thursday. FBI officials since July have had extraordinary access to the so-called Hive ransomware group’s computer networks, FBI Director

By Sugam Pokharel, CNN The United States has announced visa restrictions on individuals believed to be “undermining the democratic process” in a recent election in Nigeria. “These individuals will be found ineligible for visas to the United States under a policy to restrict visas of those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining

By Jeff Zeleny and Gabby Orr, CNN A fresh family feud is boiling inside the Republican Party. As the GOP begins looking ahead to the 2024 presidential campaign — and following a disappointing midterm election and a disorderly race to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — members of the Republican National Committee are set to

By Nectar Gan, CNN A former graduate student in Chicago was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for spying for the Chinese government by gathering information on engineers and scientists in the United States. Ji Chaoqun, a Chinese national who came to the US to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology