Bloomberg US intelligence agencies and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said a major hack of the federal government and some corporations was likely undertaken by Russia — contradicting President Donald Trump’s efforts to suggest China might be responsible — and “will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate.” The FBI is still focused on identifying victims, collecting and ...

Bloomberg Julian Assange was denied bail by a UK judge on Wednesday, two days after the court blocked the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to the US on mental-health grounds. The ruling means the 49-year-old will remain in London’s high-security Belmarsh prison, where he’s been for nearly two years. He will be held while the US government tries to appeal the extradition ...

Bloomberg President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for US secretary of state denounced Hong Kong’s arrest of dozens of opposition figures under a controversial national security law, an unprecedented crackdown that included an American lawyer. Police said they had swept up 53 people in the operation and that around 1,000 officers had been dispatched to carry out the detentions. Those arrested included ...