WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump forced his controversial Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign on Wednesday, setting the stage for a potential showdown with newly energized Congressional Democrats over the investigation of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Sessions, in a letter to Trump, wrote that he was resigning at “your request,” accepting a fait […]
The White House said Monday that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday, following news reports that the Justice Department’s No. 2 official was expecting to be fired. The announcement came days after The New York Times reported that Rosenstein last year suggested secretly recording Trump and that he raised the […]
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced criminal charges against a North Korean hacker they said was involved in a string of brazen cyber attacks in recent years, including the 2014 invasion on Sony Pictures and a 2016 heist at the central bank of Bangladesh. Prosecutors identified the hacker as Park Jin Hyok, a computer programmer and […]
The cyberthieves who stole millions of credit and debit card numbers from major U.S. retailers and restaurant chains in recent years have been caught. U.S. law enforcement authorities announced Wednesday the arrests and indictment of three leaders of FIN7, a notorious Eastern European cybercriminal group long suspected of carrying out several waves of attacks on […]