Four cyber concerns looming in the new year
Cyberattacks have surged in recent years, with the health care system and other critical sectors increasingly coming under digital assault as the threat of malware like ransomware and foreign spyware continues to evolve. Last year in particular saw officials and lawmakers renew their focus on cybersecurity and seek to secure the country's critical sectors from rising cyber threats. The issue is expected to continue to take center stage in the coming year, as many of those threats are still escalating while the cyber s
Read MoreBiden faces questions over whether he can beat DeSantis
President Biden is entering the new year riding high off a better-than-expected midterm election performance for his party that has improved his political standing while damaging his chief GOP rival — former President Trump. Yet Biden also enters the new year with lingering questions over his age and his overall political strength — most notably whether he can defeat a different Republican in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis if he is the GOP nominee in 2024. DeSantis has said he’s focused on his job in Florida and, unlike Trump, he’s not officially in the 2024 race. But he’s ex
Read MoreGOP lawmaker teases 'true' conservative alternative to McCarthy ahead of Speaker vote
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Read MoreFormer GOP aide on Speaker vote: ‘Self-serving’ Republicans would make ‘mockery’ of Congress
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Read MoreHope Hicks to aide on Jan. 6: ‘We all look like domestic terrorists now’
Former White House aide Hope Hicks told a fellow aide in text messages during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that “We all look like domestic terrorists now” as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Texts released by the House select committee investigating that day show Hicks texting with Julie Radford, former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump, as the violence unfolded. “In one day he ended every future opportun
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