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U.S. NEWS Friday 23 august 2024
From cybercrime to terrorism, FBI director says America faces

many elevated threats ‘all at once’

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG including against election
Associated Press infrastructure, candidates
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. or campaigns, require help
(AP) — The country is facing from the private sector.
heightened threats from “One of the things that we
many corners at a time have been doubling down
when law enforcement on with every passing day
agencies are struggling, is, is on partnerships, be-
FBI Director Christopher cause ultimately you’re
Wray said in an exclusive talking about the ability to
interview, adding that he connect the dots, whether
is “hard pressed to think of it’s against some kind of
a time in my career where election influence threat or
so many different kinds of some other kind of threat,”
threats are all elevated at Wray said. “You need to
once.” have partners sharing in-
Wray spoke Wednesday formation with each other
with The Associated Press to put the two pieces to-
while visiting the Minneap- gether to see the bigger
olis field office to talk about picture.”
partnerships between law Law enforcement officers
enforcement agencies are being killed in the line
and also with other entities. of duty at a rate of about
His remarks come as the FBI Director Christopher Wray answers questions during an interview, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, one every five days, Wray
FBI confronts heightened in Brooklyn Center, Minn. said, noting that four first re-
concerns over terrorism, Associated Press sponders have died in Min-
both domestic and inter- nesota alone in 2024. They
national, as well as Chinese es is partnerships. That’s ago.” FBI and other federal agen- include a Minneapolis offi-
espionage and intellectual how we get through. It is by The FBI has also scrambled cies announced Monday cer killed in May while trying
property theft and foreign all working together.” to deal with security con- that Iran was responsible to help someone, and two
election interference. Wray’s assessment of an el- cerns related to the United for a hack targeting the officers and a paramedic
“I worry about the combi- evated threat landscape is States’ southern border, Trump campaign and for who died in Burnsville in
nation of that many threats consistent with alarm bells with officials revealing in an attempted breach of February when a heavily
being elevated at once, he has sounded for months. June that eight people the Biden-Harris campaign, armed man opened fire.
with the challenges fac- Soon after the Oct. 7 attack from Tajikistan with suspect- part of what officials por- Such violence “breaks my
ing the men and women by Hamas in Israel, Wray ed ties to the Islamic State trayed as a brazen and ag- heart every single time,”
in law enforcement more began warning that the group were arrested and gressive effort to interfere in the director said.
generally,” Wray said at rampage could serve as an were being held on immi- American politics. The FBI has not been spared
the office in the suburb of inspiration to militants, “the gration violations. Wray declined to talk about such attacks: Days after
Brooklyn Center. “And the likes of which we haven’t Officials are also dealing any specific investigation agents searched Donald
one thing that I think helps seen since ISIS launched its with the specter of foreign or threat but said investi- Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-
bridge those two challeng- so-called caliphate years election interference. The gations into cyberattacks, a-Lago, to recover clas-

California announces new deal with tech to fund journalism,

AI research

By TRÂN NGUYỄN million the first year, and a robust and dynamic Cali- percentage of advertising panies for linking to their
Associated Press the majority of the money fornia press corps for years revenue to media com- content.q
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) would go to news organi- to come, reinforcing the vi-
— California will be the first zations, said Democratic tal role of journalism in our
U.S. state to direct millions Assemblymember Buffy democracy.”
of dollars from taxpayer Wicks, who brokered the Wicks’ office didn’t imme-
money and tech compa- deal. diately answer questions
nies to help pay for journal- “This agreement represents about specifics on how
ism and AI research under a major breakthrough in much funding would come
a new deal announced ensuring the survival of from the state, which news
Wednesday. newsrooms and bolster- organizations would be
Under the first-in-the-nation ing local journalism across eligible and how much
agreement, the state and California leveraging sub- money would go to the AI
tech companies would stantial tech industry re- research program.
collectively pay roughly sources without imposing The deal effectively marks
$250 million over five years new taxes on Californians,” the end of a yearlong fight
to support California-based Gov. Gavin Newsom said between tech giants and
news organization and in a statement. “The deal lawmakers over Wicks’ pro- Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, smiles after measure
create an AI research pro- not only provides funding posal to require companies that would force Big Tech companies to pay media outlets for
gram. The initiatives are set to support hundreds of new like Google, Facebook and using their news content was approved by the Assembly at the
to kick in in 2025 with $100 journalists but helps rebuild Microsoft to pay a certain Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, June 1, 2023.
Associated Press