Podcast: Ransomware Attack Leaves Baltimore Locked out of City Hall 2019-06-04

The Takeaway

Ransomware Attack Leaves Baltimore Locked out of City Hall

Baltimore is the latest high-profile victim in a long string of attacks on soft targets like city governments and small businesses.

Canadian National Inquiry: Killing and Disappearances of Indigenous Women Is ‘Genocide’

But will the Canadian government actually make meaningful change?

A Look Back at Tiananmen Square, 30 Years Later

Over the past three decades, China has worked to systematically erase the memory of the massacre, of which the death toll is still unknown.

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Rumblings in Federal Oversight Agencies Could Spell Trouble for Big Tech

Amid calls to break up Facebook and Google, the Justice Department and the FTC are changing the way they approach oversight. 

The World’s Banana Supply is Being Threatened by Disease

Can you imagine a world without bananas? Disease and Fungus are causing major threats to the world’s banana market. 

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