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  • YANTAI, CHINA – JUNE 21, 2021 – Power supply workers inspect photovoltaic equipment at a Huadian photovoltaic power station in Huili Town, Fushan District, Yantai City, east China’s Shandong Province, June 21, 2021. (Photo credit should read Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

    U.S. blocks solar panel materials from China over labor abuses

    By Ben Fox and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 08: Joseph A. Blount Jr., president and CEO of Colonial Pipeline talks to the media following a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack, on Capitol Hill, June 8, 2021 in Washington, DC.Tech

    Colonial Pipeline CEO defends paying ransom amid cyberattack

    By Eric Tucker, Ben Fox, and others
  • Tanker trucks are parked near the entrance of Colonial Pipeline Company Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline has confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. That’s according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Colonial Pipeline’s CEO Joseph Blount told the Journal that he authorized the payment after the ransomware attack because the company didn’t know the extent of the damage. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)Tech

    Colonial Pipeline CEO will testify before the Senate on ransomware hack

    By Eric Tucker, Ben Fox, and others
  • FILE – In this May 12, 2021, file photo, the entrance of Colonial Pipeline Company in Charlotte, N.C. U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive to be issued Thursday in response to the ransomware hack that disrupted gas supplies in several states this month. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)Tech

    U.S. pipelines will soon be required to increase cybersecurity after Colonial Pipeline hack

    By Ben Fox and The Associated Press
  • Tanker trucks are parked near the entrance of Colonial Pipeline Company Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline has confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. That’s according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. Colonial Pipeline’s CEO Joseph Blount told the Journal that he authorized the payment after the ransomware attack because the company didn’t know the extent of the damage. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)Tech

    Colonial Pipeline shutdown prompts new cybersecurity regulations for U.S. pipelines

    By Ben Fox and The Associated Press
  • Then U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, center, on Feb. 26, visiting the USS Donald Cook at the Odessa Sea Port, with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, left. (Man on right, unidentified.)Politics

    Ouster of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Seen in New Light With Impeachment Inquiry

    By Ben Fox, Matthew Lee, and others