Masood Farivar is a Senior Analyst in VOA’s South and Central Asia Division.
Five cases were brought by new 'strike force' created earlier this year to deter foreign adversaries from obtaining advanced US innovation
Proud Boys deny being racists or violent, but extremism researchers say they have a violent agenda and harbor virulently hateful views of women, Muslims, transgender people and immigrants
Officials say a unit within Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, used malicious software called Snake to steal sensitive documents from hundreds of compromised computer networks in at least 50 countries
The convictions bring to 14 people from two groups convicted of the Civil War-era charge
$10 million reward offered for information on alleged mastermind of a network that verified stolen credit card numbers for cybercriminals
Nearly 300 suspects have been arrested, and a large cache of drugs, cash, virtual currency and weapons seized in the largest international operation of its kind
The US Border Patrol collects DNA samples from migrants detained at the border as well as US citizens and permanent residents arrested there on federal criminal charges
Number of deaths and injuries was higher than in 2021
Agreement caps a long-running US investigation into British American Tobacco’s sales of tobacco products to the North Korea
Five Proud Boys leaders are on trial for seditious conspiracy in connection with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol
So far, US has transferred $5.4 million to Ukraine, 1% of the assets it has seized
House committee holds hearing in New York City, but other cities are more dangerous, criminologist says
Two New York City residents are accused of opening and operating a police station for China's Ministry of Public Security
Jack Teixeira, 21, faces charges of leaking classified information under the Espionage Act
Jack Teixeira, 21, was arrested at a residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts, bureau says
The US and 15 countries took down a ‘key enabler of ransomware’
Charges involve 'falsifying business records in the first degree'
Trump faces 34 counts of 'falsifying business records in the first degree'
It could take years for his case to reach a conclusion as the litigious former president fights the charges, extending the case beyond the 2024 presidential election
Trump is the first former president to face criminal charges
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