WASHINGTON
Cybersecurity gaps found
Federal agencies reported 30,899 “cyber incidents” in fiscal 2016 that led to the “compromise of information or system functionality” to the Department of Homeland Security, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s annual report to Congress on federal cyber performance. Incidents included thousands of email phishing attacks; “improper usage” that violates acceptable policies by an authorized user; loss or theft of a computing device or media; or an attack executed from a website or a web-based application, according to the report released by the Trump administration Friday.
Trump, Abbas talk peace
President Donald Trump invited Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House to discuss resuming peace talks in their first contact since Trump took office. Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh said that Abbas would travel “very soon.” The White House said in a statement Friday that they discussed ways to advance peace throughout the Middle East, including a comprehensive agreement that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
PORTLAND, Ore.
Two convicted in standoff
A jury on Friday convicted two men of conspiracy to impede federal officers during last year’s armed occupation of a federally owned wildlife refuge in a protest over control of Western lands. They face possible sentences of years in federal prison. The verdict handed prosecutors some measure of redemption after they failed to convict occupation leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others last fall.
CHICAGO
New docs can work longer
Rookie doctors can work up to 24 hours straight under new work limits taking effect this summer — a move supporters say will enhance training and foes maintain will do just the opposite. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which sets work standards for U.S. medical school graduates, voted to eliminate a 16-hour cap for first-year residents. An 80-hour per week limit for residents at all levels remains in place.
Compiled from wire reports