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The FBI confirms Minnesota is not alone in finding that hackers have attacked its water
sector.
“Federal investigators say several states have been affected.”
So far, the impacts appear limited as NPR's Genomeclaw Flynn reports. The FBI says cyber attacks are targeting machines responsible for monitoring and controlling water treatment plants across the country. In at least seven states, unidentified hackers have tampered with devices called programmable logic controllers, interfering with water operators' ability to monitor their
systems, and in some cases causing pressure loss and flooding. The FBI recommends operators disconnect these devices from the internet. Cyber security experts tell NPR that there isn't conclusive evidence who's behind it, but the attacks are consistent with activity from Iranian hacking groups. A water cyber security organization notes that threats to water operators might be elevated
right now as Iran could seek retaliation for U.S. strikes. NPR News suggests governments increasingly charging ice protesters with conspiracy, which can lead to years in federal prison. NPR's Meganderson reports many of these conspiracy cases have been dismissed, but some protesters have been convicted.
“NPR looked at the use of one charge, conspiracy to impede or injure an officer over the last”
five years. The statute has been used infrequently, historically. But since 2025, the DOJ has charged more than three dozen people with it in at least ten different states. All of them involve people protesting ice.
Air in turn, with the foundation for individual rights and expression, says some of these cases involve things like property destruction. But some defendants aren't accused of personally engaging in that conduct. So the concern there is that the government may be casting too wide in that. In a statement that DOJ told NPR that federal prosecutors are right to prioritize these
cases, and that people should not mistake impeding officers with peaceful protest. Meganderson and pair news. President Trump says his board of peace has brokered an agreement with a militant group Hamas to disarming Gaza.
“Hamas was circumspecting its response, and then here is Emily Fang with more.”
A Hamas official told NPR after Trump's announcement, they would only give up their weapons if Israel follows a ceasefire agreement from last October, including quote with "draw" from Gaza first.
Israel, meanwhile, has insisted it will not withdraw until Hamas disarms first.
Its military has increased the amount of territory it occupies to about two-thirds of the area of Gaza. And in the near ten months after the ceasefire is really strikes in attacks of killed more than 1,100 people in Gaza. A US broker 20.piece plan also stipulated Hamas when hand its weapons over to an international
police force and a new government of technocrats who would take over the running of Gaza. But neither has fully materialized, Emily Fang and Pyrenees, Tel Aviv. This is NPR News. The State Department is apologizing for miss labeling all six countries it named on
a map of Africa's slide at a global AIDS conference this week, more from Cape Bartlett in Johannesburg. Most on Nigeria is landlocked, Mozambique has been transported from southern Africa to the Horn of Africa, and I recost has shifted from West Africa across the continent to East Africa. Those are among some of the errors on a State Department's slide that was part of a presentation
at an AIDS conference in Brazil. Right as news agency said its analysis found evidence the slide had been made using artificial intelligence. The State Department apologized for the quote unfortunate error and confusion caused. On social media, former State Department officials and some Democrats blamed substantial
personnel cuts at the Department during President Trump's second term for the Bungle Kate Bartlett in Pyrenees, Johannesburg. A set of civil war era cannonballs almost made it on a plane. The transportation security administration details a statement today earlier this month that Gulf shores international airport in Alabama, a passenger check to suitcase containing the
small relics, a TSA agent flagged them during a routine x-ray screening, police later learned that a minor had stolen the cannonballs from a storage area at Alabama's Fort Morgan. Then put the artifacts in his grandmother's check bag. The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office returned the cannonballs to Fort Morgan. I'm Lakshmi Singh NPR News.
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