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RNC committee advances resolution to censure Cheney, Kinzinger
Members of the Republican National Committee's (RNC) resolutions committee on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to censure Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), though they declined to call for Cheney and Kinzinger to be expelled from the House Republican Conference.
The RNC's full body will likely vote to approve the censure on Friday at its winter meeting, Politico reported.
According to Politico, the resolution criticizes Cheney's and Kinzinger's involvement in the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, of which they are the only two Republican members.
"This is not about them being anti-Trump," Harmeet Dhillon, a national committee member from California and one of the sponsors of the resolution, told Politico. "There are plenty of other people in the party who are anti-Trump whose names don't appear in the resolution. These two took specific action to defy party leadership."
Dhillon also said that RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel spoke in favor of the resolution as passed by the resolutions committee, Politico reported.
The resolution that advanced Thursday is a weaker rebuke of the two lawmakers than that initially put forward by two-time Trump campaign adviser David Bossie at the RNC's annual meeting this week, which called for Cheney's and Kinzinger's ouster from the House conference.
This comes nearly a year after Cheney was removed from the House GOP leadership last year after she voted to impeach Trump for inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/592788-rnc-committee-advances-resolution-to-censure-cheney-kinzinger
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Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others
The attack, discovered on Jan. 20, affected publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and the company’s U.K. news operation
News Corp was the target of a hack that accessed emails and documents of some employees, including journalists, an incursion the company’s cybersecurity consultant said was likely meant to gather intelligence to benefit China’s interests.
The attack, discovered on Jan. 20, affected a number of publications and business units including The Wall Street Journal and its parent Dow Jones; the New York Post; the company’s U.K. news operation; and News Corp headquarters, according to a person familiar with the matter.
After discovering the attack, the company notified law enforcement and hired cybersecurity firm Mandiant Inc. to support an investigation, the person said.
“Mandiant assesses that those behind this activity have a China nexus, and we believe they are likely involved in espionage activities to collect intelligence to benefit China’s interests,” said David Wong, vice president of incident response at Mandiant.
News Corp disclosed the hack in a securities filing Friday.
Representatives for the Chinese Embassy in Washington couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
News Corp believes the threat activity is contained and has been offering guidance to affected employees, the person said.
The method of the hack and the number of staffers whose email accounts and documents were accessed couldn’t be learned.
Systems housing financial and customer data, including subscriber information, weren’t affected, according to the person familiar with the matter.
Law-enforcement officials and cybersecurity experts say that journalists are often high-priority targets for hackers seeking to gain intelligence on behalf of foreign governments because they speak to sources who might have valuable or sensitive information. Powerful surveillance tools have been used against journalists and human-rights activists.
U.S. authorities have accused China-based hackers for years of targeting a range of American businesses and government institutions. FBI Director Christopher Wray said this week that Beijing is running a “massive, sophisticated hacking program that is bigger than those of every other major nation combined.” The FBI has more than 2,000 active investigations related to allegations of Chinese-government-directed theft of U.S. information or technology, Mr. Wray said.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/cyberattack-on-news-corp-believed-linked-to-china-targeted-emails-of-journalists-others-11643979328