It looks like victims are saying screw the WannaCry hackers..and refusing to pay the ransoms. The New York Times is reporting that despite a week of disruption, an online tracking system showed that the amount sent in the electronic currency Bitcoin to accounts listed by the attackers had reached about $90,000 as of this afternoon in Europe. Early estimates of what the virus could ultimately earn have ranged into the tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars.
Gift to Putin? Trump considered quitting NATO
Trump said several times he wanted to withdraw from NATO, the NYT reported. How would that play into Putin’s hands? Brian Todd reports
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Theresa May’s Historic Brexit Defeat
[van id=”world/2019/01/15/theresa-may-brexit-defeat.cnn”] UK Prime Minister Theresa May postponed the Brexit vote once before, but after 8 days of fractious debate, there was no avoiding it. … Continue Reading
DC Focuses On Rep. King’s Racist Comments During Shutdown
[van id=”van/ns-acc/2019/01/15/PO-129TU_CNNA-ST1-1000000004f946d2″] Lawmakers focus on Rep. King as crippling shutdown drags on.… Continue Reading
Trump: Keep immigrants who work the farms
During a speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation, President Donald Trump said that we need to build the wall to “keep the wrong ones” out, but Trump says he will make it easier for migrants who help farmers to become citizens.
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China sentences Canadian to death for drug smuggling
A Canadian citizen in China has been sentenced to death after a court convicted him of drug smuggling, a move likely to further inflame tensions between Ottawa and Beijing.
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