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A virtual conference hosted by the White House includes 'like-minded' nations that are all facing challenges with ransomware.

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White House brings together 30 nations to combat ransomware

10:38am October 13, 2021

by Jenna McLaughlin

The White House is hosting a virtual conference with countries from Ukraine to the United Arab Emirates to look for ways to fight ongoing ransomware attacks across borders.

News brief: inflation watch, ransomware summit, e-cigarette authorization

7:56am October 13, 2021

The Labor Department reports consumer prices data. The White House hosts a virtual global summit to discuss ransomware. The FDA allows a brand of e-cigarettes to stay on the market.

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White House organizes virtual global summit to tackle ransomware

7:56am October 13, 2021

by Jenna McLaughlin

The White House is hosting a virtual meeting for more than 30 countries — from Ukraine to the United Arab Emirates — this week to find ways to fight ransomware together.

This county arrested and detained children more than anywhere else in Tennessee

5:00pm October 12, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with reporter Meribah Knight about her investigation into Rutherford County, Tenn., where children were arrested and detained at a higher rate than elsewhere in the state.

Will Cobbs and Pete Simpson play FBI agents interrogating Emily Davis's Reality Winner, in Is This a Room.

This new Broadway play doesn't have a script — but it does have a transcript

7:21am October 12, 2021

by Alexandra Starr

Is This a Room is based entirely on the transcript of the FBI interrogation of Reality Winner, the former NSA contractor who was imprisoned for leaking classified information.

In this 2011 photo, then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden walks with then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in southwestern China. Both are now presidents of their countries at a time when U.S.-China relations have been growing increasingly tense.

Is China a threat or an opportunity? Depends which Americans you ask

4:27pm October 11, 2021

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Midwestern farmers and Wall Street investors all see China as a business opportunity. Yet in Washington, China is first and foremost a security threat.

The Virginia-class attack submarine USS California (SSN 781) underway during sea trials in Atlantic Ocean on June 30, 2011.

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A former Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been arrested on espionage charges

11:42pm October 10, 2021

by Dave Mistich

The Department of Justice says Jonathan Toebbe and his wife, Diana Toebbe, allegedly sought to sell sensitive military secrets about submarines to a foreign entity.

What's next for Louisiana's LaPlace Parish residents after weathering repeated storms

5:37pm October 08, 2021

by Sarah McCammon

Residents of LaPlace in Louisiana have stayed hurricane after hurricane due to their deep ties to their community. State and federal officials are trying to deal with the area's repeated devastation.

What it's like to migrate from Central America as a 15-year-old girl

5:28pm October 08, 2021

by Marta Martinez

Women and children are requesting asylum at higher rates than men. Knowing that men prey on girls like her, 15-year-old Honduran Amaya cut her hair to avoid standing out after joining a group of boys.

The USS Connecticut, seen near the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 2016, collided on Oct. 2 with an unspecified underwater object in international waters in the South China Sea.

A U.S. Navy submarine collides with an underwater object in the South China Sea

4:08pm October 08, 2021

by Scott Neuman

A Defense Department official says nearly a dozen sailors were injured in the incident aboard the USS Connecticut. The U.S. 7th Fleet says the sub's nuclear power plant was not affected.