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Soldiers line up before leaving to patrol the streets in Bogotá, Colombia, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. 
Critical State
Use the force: Part II
In this June 19, 2017, file photo, a person types on a laptop keyboard in North Andover, Massachusetts. 
Cybersecurity
‘Ransomware Diaries:’ Going undercover with the leader of LockBit
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, is escorted from his plane on his arrival in Honiara, Solomon Islands
Global Politics
China’s foreign minister starts Pacific tour in the Solomons
Riot police detain a man during clashes in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, March 11, 2021.
Technology
Greek police roll out new ‘smart’ devices that recognize faces and fingerprints
Hands fold a sheet of paper
History
Researchers ‘virtually unlock’ a sealed 17th-century letter
Pentagon officials speak at a hearing
Global Politics
Russian bounty allegations shine spotlight on what Trump admin knew and when
A poster depicting the former government adviser and political analyst Husham al-Hashimi, who was killed by gunmen, is seen in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, July 8, 2020.
Global Politics
Iraqi security expert’s assassination in Baghdad has left many in shock
A close-up photo of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wearing headphones
Critical State
Illiberalism isn’t just rising — it’s spreading (Part I)
People stand in voting booth casting ballots
As 2020 US presidential election nears, voter systems are still vulnerable
workers install US steel beams against sunlight in construction of building
Conflict
Don’t ignore serious nonmilitary threats to US national security
Man holds laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in an illustration picture.
Science & Technology
A cyberattack could wreak destruction comparable to a nuclear weapon
Image of young Vladimir Putin with Russian text
Global Politics
Learn how to be a spy from previously unpublished KGB training manuals
A man in a crowd wearing a white T-shirt holds up a sign saying 'Russia get out of Georgia."
Conflict
NATO agreed Georgia would join. Why hasn’t it happened?
US President Donald Trump is shown walking back to the Oval Office wearing a dark blue overcoat.
Global Politics
Trump policies unite allies against him at European security forum
A set of hands type on a keyboard
Technology
Clean up your cyber-hygiene — 6 changes to make in the new year
Recent released information about Russians hacking into American power systems has raised several concerns about the overall security of the U.S. energy grid as a whole.
Conflict
Can the US protect its power grid from hackers?
Arts, Culture & Media
Art Guard
Passengers walk past Air Canada planes on the runway at Pearson International Airport in Toronto April 13, 2012.
Global Politics
The US has been expanding the role, number and power of its border agents abroad
Passengers wait to undergo security checks at Sydney's Domestic Airport in Australia.
Conflict
New airport security measures add the human element back into screenings
A ship docked at the Port of Boston, New England’s busiest container port.
Economics
As global shipping explodes, it presents a logistical and security challenge
phone in hand
Technology
How to make biometric technology more secure
Lieutenant Commander Christian Medick on the bridge of US Coast Guard Cutter
Culture
Meet the Coast Guard protecting America’s East Coast
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says President Trump's disclosure of classified information to Russian diplomats has put the national security bureaucracy on its back foot.
Global Politics
It’s not like Trump’s ‘whispering this to Theresa May,’ laments a former CIA chief
Rumana Ahmed at the White House during the last year of the Obama administration.
SHORT: Rumana Ahmed lasted eight days in Trump’s White House
Full Episode
TSA Pre-check sign in front of escalator
Justice
My dad was strip-searched at the airport last weekend — and it’s a wake-up call for us all
Immigration Ban: The Republican Response, the Christian Response, and the Complexities of Digital Security
Full Episode
Trump’s Immigration Ban, Security Council Shakeup, NATO Reckons With Russia
Full Episode
Deadly truck attack
Conflict
In the wake of deadly truck attack, Germany grapples with security and a ‘culture of openness’
A woman and young girl in a church look at sheet music
Religion
Helping Syrian refugees is the Christian thing to do, say these church leaders
Environment
More countries, organizations seeking to use aerial drones for peaceful, nefarious purposes
Family walks through airport, man in front hold infant
Conflict
It’s now clear that most of the Syrian refugees coming to the United States are women and children
Global Politics
White House issues guidelines for 9/11 commemorations
Denver Airport Security Lines
Conflict
2-hour lines at the airport? Brutal – and a security risk, experts say
Euro 2016 gets underway in France from June 10 to July 10.
Sports
Expect tight security at the upcoming Euro 2016 soccer tournament in France
Protestors gathered at a small rally in support of Apple's refusal to help the FBI access the cell phone of a gunman involved in the killings of 14 people in San Bernardino, California in February.
Justice
Did an Israeli digital forensics firm unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s cellphone?
Apple Vs. The FBI: What You Need to Know
Full Episode
A view of sensor arrays at a former NSA monitoring base in Bad Aibling in Bavaria, Germany.
Justice
The NSA’s bulk collection program may soon end, but they may not care
Municipal police officers watch screens in the video surveillance control room of the municipal police supervision centre in Nice February 9, 2015.
Technology
The French government’s new surveillance law opens the door to NSA-style mass surveillance
Brazilian activists hold Snowden masks
Technology
‘Privacy isn’t dead:’ Snowden’s South American legacy grows as Brazil’s crypto movement marches on
Security personnel stand along Boylston Street near the finish line of the 119th Boston Marathon, held on April 20, 2015.
Justice
The Boston Marathon bombings changed the race — but not necessarily the security conversation
Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Daniel Norris throws against the Tampa Bay Rays in the fourth inning at the Rogers Centre.
Sports
Canadian sports join in the post-Boston Marathon security buildup
Kayleb Moon-Robinson — who is diagnosed as autistic — had barely started sixth grade last fall in Lynchburg, Virginia, when a school resource officer filed charges against him. Kayleb was charged with disorderly conduct for kicking over a trash can and th
Justice
UPDATE: How kicking a trash can became criminal for a 6th grader
French police officers pay respects at a national tribute in Paris to the three officers who fell during last week's attacks by Islamic militants.
Justice
France is ‘at war’ with Islamists, says prime minister
Police officers secure access to a residential building during investigations in the eastern French city of Reims on January 8, 2015, after the shooting against the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper.
Conflict
How the Kouachi brothers fell through the cracks
A hospital security guard
Global Politics
America’s armed security guards are lightly regulated — if they’re regulated at all
The Leaker - Edward Snowden
Media
I’m not Edward Snowden, I just play him on TV
A cyber security analyst works in a watch and warning center at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Books
A huge intelligence screw-up turned the government and private companies into cyberwarfare partners
Riot police block demonstrators during a protest against the 2014 World Cup, in Sao Paulo June 12, 2014.
Justice
How police violence in the US could help spark racial justice in Brazil
Stenbock House
Global Politics
The ‘Estonian Express Card’ offers a glimpse of the future of digital citizenship
A demonstrator sits in front of a street fire during a demonstration following the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, in Oakland, California on November 25, 2014.
Justice
Just like in Ferguson, police shootings in South Africa prove nothing is ‘post-racial’ just yet
A protester shouts with both his hands in the air while marching through a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, on November 23, 2014.
Conflict
Black communities in England know what Ferguson is going through
An anti-government protester kicks a surveillance camera during clashes with police in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on February 7, 2014.
Conflict
What keeps you awake at night?
A police officer patrols the street as a little girl watches from her doorstep in the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica, on May 27, 2010.
Justice
As Ferguson unfolds, a death in Jamaica resurrects the island’s history of police brutality
A researcher at Hauri
Technology
Even your medical records aren’t safe. Chinese group hacks into hospital’s patient records
French youth take part in a protest against the government's handling of recent urban unrest in France, at Place Saint Michel in Paris, November 16, 2005.
Justice
In France, Ferguson protests stir memories of suburban riots
A police officer holds his riot gun while demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 13, 2014.
Justice
‘Municipal shock and awe’ comes to the streets of Ferguson
Riot police stand guard as demonstrators protest the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 13, 2014.
Conflict
Why are police using military gear in Ferguson and how did they get it?
A protester in Russia waves a Facebook flag.
Global Politics
As Snowden looks on, Russia cracks down on Internet freedom
Representatives from various African nations gather at the opening session at the AGOA Forum during the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington August 4, 2014.
Global Politics
A summit of African leaders in Washington tries to move beyond ‘speed dating’
National Guard troops patrol along the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, in 2010. Texas is authorizing a similar call-up on its border.
Global Politics
Why Rick Perry is sending the National Guard to the Texas border