An exclusive for your Sunday morning -- Peter Beck breaks the news of the arrest of a Syrian man accused of hacking some of the most prominent media organizations, including The New York Times, WaPo, ABC News, Forbes, CNN, NPR, USA Today, the AP, and Reuters. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

The purported leader of a Syrian hacktivist group with ties to the Assad regime that targets dozens of media organizations was quietly arrested last month. We have an exclusive story this morning about one of the FBI's Most Wanted facing federal charges. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

This is one of the excellent Jason Leopold's wildest #FOIA stories yet. Has one of your record requests to the United States federal government gone missing? Well, here is maybe why...

During the breach, Sohaib said to his brother “they’re gonna probably raid this place.” “I’ll clean this shit up,” Muneeb replied. “We also gotta clean stuff up from the other house, man,” Sohaib said. A week later, Muneeb, who lives in Virginia, drove to Texas.

NEW FOIA Files is out! In May, I published an investigative report about twin brothers who hacked into Opexus, a govt contractor that handled #FOIA docs & other govt records. On Wed, the brothers were arrested & charged with computer crimes www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Behind the Curtain: Trump bets his presidency and GOP's future on AI https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/trump-ai-policy-gop-united-states #axios #news #usnews

Another felony case by Homeland Security in Charlotte to be dropped. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

The Trump administration is violating a court order to keep Voice of America alive. Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

UPDATE: “Trump’s closure of Voice of America is coming back to bite him - As the president threatens Venezuela, Russia and China are filling the information vacuum.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Georgia legislators passed a law requiring that QR codes be removed from election ballots. But lawmakers didn't allocate any money for doing that. Now, it's too late to switch before midterms, with some warning that it nothing changes "it could be a recipe for chaos." www.ajc.com/politics/202...

“If the land exchange is finalized, Resolution Copper would obtain about 2,400 acres of public lands where a 1.4 billion metric ton copper ore body sits. This site, known as Oak Flat, is culturally significant to nearly a dozen tribes in the Southwest.”

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

Salute to Nancy Cordes of CBS; Mary Bruce of ABC; Katie Rogers of the New York Times; Kaitlin Collins of CNN; Catherine Lucey of Bloomberg; Weijia Jiang of CBS; Yamiche Alcindor of PBS; April Ryan of CNN; and more. They endured Trump’s insults for doing their jobs.

Trump bashes yet another female journalist, this time one from CNN. ew.com/donald-trump...

Russia praises Trump’s new National Security Plan, saying it is consistent with Moscow’s vision. youtu.be/a5Puajn55FA?...

MTG bashes Trump for bringing in the Saudi crown prince and Syrian president and meeting with the new mayor of New York City at the same time he was fighting release of the Epstein files www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Rep. James Clyburn says redistricting push is making a 'mockery out of this democracy' www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

For the first time this century, the number of children worldwide who die before their fifth birthday is projected to rise, according to a new study published by the Gates Foundation.

With Trump’s tariffs in place, countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America are increasing imports from China. www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/c...

The White House now is using her image without permission, manipulating a clip to make it seem she is calling a SNL cast member illegal.

Low lease rates attracted people looking for affordable housing. Then, when they were about to sign a lease, the company added hundreds of dollars in charges each month for pest control, administrative costs for utility bills, trash, verification and more. www.ajc.com/news/2025/12...

AJC's political columnist opines on the Georgia election interference case: "...we shouldn’t all walk away from the events of 2020 and 2021, deciding that there was nothing to see here. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Some people in Germany want to ban the Alternative for Germany, a far-right party, to prevent a repeat of Nazism. “We cannot be unserious about preventing this kind of thing,” Ralf Stegner, a social democrat, said.

Experts worry cheetahs may one day be on the brink of extinction and need artificial reproduction to save them.

«The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”» www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Heartbreaking: coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...

For small businesses hit by soaring costs, layoffs are painful and personal www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

ICYMI: Putin authorized 2018 Novichok poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal, U.K. inquiry says www.nbcnews.com/world/united...

This number does NOT include arrests made by Border Patrol. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

AP: Trump’s claim is false. Individual income taxes provide 54% of federal revenue; tariffs now less than 8%. apnews.com/article/fact...

Many reporters went to Albany, Georgia, when it became one of America's first COVID hotspots. But @propublica.org's Ginger Thompson kept returning, kept reporting. What she uncovered reveals some ugly truths about American healthcare. Read her new 5-part series, Sick in a Hospital Town:

The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...

AP investigation: Russia defies rules of law, terrorizing and targeting civilians at will. apnews.com/article/mali...

ICYMI: Trump administration alters national parks' free-entry days, cutting MLK Day and Juneteenth but adding Trump’s birthday. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Russia destroyed medical warehouses amid "peace" talks. On 6 December, Moscow destroyed warehouses stocked with gauze, bandages, and medical splints. These attacks reveal Russia’s strategy: to make access to basic medical care impossible for civilians and soldiers t.me/borys_filato... 📸 DSNS

Swedish Navy Chief of Operations Capt. Marko Petkovic warns of Russian submarines spotted "almost weekly" in the Baltic Sea, with sightings rising in recent years as Moscow "constantly increases" its presence. Even post-Ukraine ceasefire, Russia is expected to further bolster Baltic forces.

American support for larger US military and NATO grows, survey says

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Parallels of history on a nation divided: Why did more Northerners come to oppose slavery? Anger over the Fugitive Slave Act. It put the federal government on the side of slave hunters. Those captured, slave or free, were denied due process rights. Other people,... apnews.com/today-in-his...

Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA are among the producers of the program, which some parents decry for “overt political messaging.” The program will be presented at schools in every state to “showcase examples of high-quality history.” flip.it/vLC6iG

Transgender health leader’s name changed on her official HHS portrait www.npr.org/sections/sho...