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In a new book, author Scott Anderson chronicles the formative years of America’s spy agency by focusing on four soldiers who became intelligence agents after World War II.

11 suspects to be indicted on Wednesday in case that shocked the country and sparked nationwide protests

Facebook on Tuesday said that it has caught a budding Russia-linked campaign to fuel political chaos in the US, working off a tip from the FBI in its latest take-down of coordinated inauthentic behavior at the leading social network. The

In a new report to Congress, the Pentagon says it expects China over the next 10 years to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads, which it says currently numbers in the “low 200s.”

Today is the first day of the payroll tax deferral. It’s complicated, here’s what we know  CNBC Payroll Tax Delay Begins, But Some Employers May Not Carry It Out : Coronavirus Live Updates  NPR 1.3 million federal workers will have payroll taxes

  The Chinese military is pressing to double its 200-plus nuclear warheads within a decade with the ability to launch them aboard ballistic missiles by land, sea and air, the Pentagon said in a report Tuesday. Aside from aiming for

Last week TechCrunch sat down virtually with Jeff Lawson, the CEO and co-founder of Twilio as part of our long-running Extra Crunch Live series. As I expected, the chat was a good use of time. Why? Lawson was early on

Chicago shootings: 52 shot, 9 fatally in weekend violence; 5 shot, 1 fatally at Morgan Park pancake house  WLS-TV Man critical after exchange of gunfire with Chicago police in Pilsen  WGN News Man shot, killed in Homan Square: police  Chicago Sun-Times Chicago weekend

India, the world’s second most populated nation, sees more than 20% of the global flood-related fatalities each year as overrun riverbanks sweep tens of thousands of homes with them. Two years ago, Google volunteered to help. In 2018, the company began

Google launched a few updates to its Contact Center AI product today, but the most interesting one is probably the beta of its new Custom Voice service, which will let brands create their own text-to-speech voices to best represent their