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··Seven States Continue to See Unusual Levels of Threats to Election Workers
Disturbingly high number of election threats to election workers in seven battleground states
··FBI Got Tip About Oath Keepers’ Plans for Armed Fight in November 2020
Oath Keepers began planning in November 2020 for armed assault on the Capitol
··In New Jersey ‘Hotbed’ for Extremists, Lawmakers Examine Spike in Antisemitic Incidents
Extremists flock to New Jersey
··Future Borders 2030: From Vision to Reality
Border security technology is in an era of compressed transformation
··New Report Shows Significant Improvement in Consumer Cyber Hygiene
Consumers are doing more to improve their cybersecurity
··Deadly Heat Dome Was a 1-in-10,000-Year Event
Last year’s Pacific Northwest heat disaster occur just once every 10,000 years
Seven States Continue to See Unusual Levels of Threats to Election Workers (Jeff Pegues, CBS News)
Seven states across the country continue to see unusual levels of threats to election workers, senior FBI officials said in a briefing Monday.
Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin — all states where the 2020 election results were questioned, officials noted. President Biden won each of those states. FBI officials are discussing how to deal with these threats as state officials in 8,800 election districts prepare for the midterm elections next month.
Since June 2021, the FBI has received more than 1,000 tips concerning threats to election workers, according to the agency. Roughly 11% of those tips have led to FBI investigations.
FBI Got Tip About Oath Keepers’ Plans for Armed Fight in November 2020 (Rachel Weiner and Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post)
An FBI agent resumed testimony in the trial of Stewart Rhodes and others indicted with him in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol
In New Jersey ‘Hotbed’ for Extremists, Lawmakers Examine Spike in Antisemitic Incidents (Bridget Johnson, HSToday)
Director of Rutgers Hillel told House members that “for the first time in recent memory, Jewish students feel unsafe and unwelcome at their own schools.”
Future Borders 2030: From Vision to Reality (Accenture)
Border agencies have shown just how adaptive they are in recent years. They have had to meet new expectations with finite resources—amid disruptive forces that dramatically and unpredictably impacted the flow of people and goods. Agencies have had to fulfill security and revenue generation missions despite a global health crisis, upended global supply chains and damaging cyberattacks.
But here’s the reality.
New demands related to the lightning-fast pace of change continue to strain resources—in some cases, almost to the breaking point. Pragmatic border leaders know it’s an era of compressed transformation. They also know they must evolve faster to lead with impact—and prepare for inevitable disruptions.
New Report Shows Significant Improvement in Consumer Cyber Hygiene (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)
Senior administration officials and cybersecurity leaders marking Cybersecurity Awareness Month weighed in on a consumer survey examining how behaviors have changed over the last three years.
Deadly Heat Dome Was a 1-in-10,000-Year Event (Anne C. Mulkern, Scientific American)
The record-smashing temperatures in the Pacific Northwest last year were an extraordinarily rare occurrence even in the age of climate change
