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This combination of 2017-2018 photos shows from left, a Facebook posting from a group named "Being Patriotic" attributed to Russian agents by the US House Intelligence Committee, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri whose campaign was targeted by Russian hackers and voting machines in Chicago after hackers found a way into the voter registration database at the Illinois State Board of Elections in mid-2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, Jeff Roberson, Kiichiro Sato)
September 2, 2018, 9:04 am
As US midterms approach, what is the risk of Russian meddling?
Despite no evidence of efforts to tamper with electoral rolls or voting machines, experts warn malware could have been planted for later use
By Frank Bajak and ADAM GELLER
This image released by HBO shows Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in an episode of "Game of Thrones," which aired Sunday, Aug. 6. (AP)
August 8, 2017, 11:19 am
Hackers demand millions in ransom for stolen HBO data
Latest dump of stolen files includes what appear to be draft scripts from 5 ‘Game of Thrones’ episodes
By TALI ARBEL and Frank Bajak
In this Aug. 3, 2015 file photo, a photograph of murdered photojournalist Ruben Espinosa sits among flowers and candles in front of his casket inside a funeral home before his wake begins in Mexico City. (AP/Marco Ugarte, File)
August 3, 2017, 4:18 am
High-profile lawyers in Mexico targeted with Israeli-made spyware
Internet watchdog says counter-terrorism software designed by Herzliya-based NSO Group hits human rights attorneys
By Maria Verza and Frank Bajak
In this Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, photo, a carrier delivers mail along a section of border fence in Brownsville, Texas. The idea of a concrete wall spanning the entire 1,954-mile southwest frontier collides head-on with multiple realities, like a looping Rio Grande, fierce local resistance, and cost. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
November 23, 2016, 12:36 am
Americans who live near border say Trump’s wall is unwelcome
A 2,000 mile barrier across frontier with Mexico collides with geology and meets fierce local resistance
By Frank Bajak
Pedestrians talk on their cellphones in Lima, Peru, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
August 3, 2016, 2:26 pm
With cheap Israeli spy tools, nations are ‘monitoring everyone’
Technology enables governments, secret police to eavesdrop on citizens, arrest dissidents and spread fear
By Frank Bajak and Jack Gillum
Jacob Ostreicher in Los Angeles on December 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
January 6, 2015, 10:57 pm
Year after escaping Bolivia, Orthodox Jew struggles to recover
Businessman Jacob Ostreicher credits actor Sean Penn with saving him from Third World prison nightmare, but has yet to rebuild his life
By Frank Bajak
A vehicle from a funeral home is surrounded by journalists as it enters the home of the late Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Mexico City, on Thursday, April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Marco Ugarte)
April 18, 2014, 1:28 am
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87
Colombian writer, a giant of Spanish literature, wrote bestseller ‘100 Years of Solitude’; was friend of Castro
By Frank Bajak and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
This undated family photo released on Thursday shows Timothy Tracy inside a vehicle in Venezuela (photo credit: AP/Courtesy of family)
April 26, 2013, 8:04 am
Venezuela to charge US filmmaker as ‘terrorist’
Authorities nab Timothy Tracy, accused of fomenting post-election violence, on his way out of the country
By Frank Bajak and Michael Weissenstein
Defaced campaign signs of ruling party presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro cover a wall in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 12 (photo credit: AP/Ariana Cubillos)
April 14, 2013, 9:58 am
Venezuelans to elect new president following Chavez’s death
Voters have a choice between continuity with longtime Chavista Nicolas Maduro and a fresh start with Henrique Capriles
By Alexandra Olson and Frank Bajak
New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he was being held without charges (photo credit: AP/File)
December 12, 2012, 5:32 pm
After 28th hearing, Orthodox man jailed in Bolivia calls case a joke
At a proceeding attended by actor Sean Penn, judges refuse to free man seen as victim of extortion conspiracy
By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak
New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he was being held without charges (photo credit: AP/File)
December 11, 2012, 8:50 pm
With Sean Penn’s help, US Jew jailed in Bolivia may be released
A growing extortion scandal suggests a conspiracy to confine Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox agriculture investor from New York
By Carlos Valdez and Frank Bajak
Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox investor from Brooklyn, has been freed from prison in Bolivia but will remain under house arrest after paying $14,000 as bail. (AP/File)
April 8, 2012, 2:55 pm
US Orthodox Jew sits 10 months in Bolivian jail, uncharged
Prosecutors have presented no evidence that the New York businessman was involved in laundering drug money. Jacob Ostreicher plans to begin a hunger strike at the end of Passover
By Frank Bajak and Paola Flores
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