Experts expect a flood of disinformation and deepfakes, but federal officials feel limited in what they can do. “The FBI is not in the truth detection business,” one official said.
The action would shield about 500,000 immigrants living in the U.S. from deportation. “This is the biggest thing since DACA,” an immigration advocate said.
“These two groups have discovered that they have mutual interests,” U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said of the Mexican cartels and the Chinese money launderers.
The U.S. announced May 31 that it killed three militants in a Somalia airstrike. Officials now say the target was ISIS leader Abdulqadir Mumin, but also say they aren’t certain he is dead.
Brad Smith told Congress that after a spate of major security lapses Microsoft is carrying out “the single largest cybersecurity engineering project in the history of digital technology.”
One intel official said a decision to warn the public would hinge on whether a foreign disinformation campaign was serious enough that it “could affect the election outcome.”
The executive action was supposed to make illegal border crossers ineligible for asylum, but officials are still releasing migrants into the U.S. because of limited options.
A House Oversight Committee subcommittee launched an inquiry after 20 service members died in four separate crashes of the twin-rotor aircraft in less than two years.
Cases linked to Tren de Aragua, including sex trafficking and a shooting, show how hard it is for border agents to vet migrants from nations that won't provide criminal background info.