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Projected 2020 presidential election winner Joe Biden selected Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban American and former Obama administration official, to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Mayorkas helped create the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program but also helped expand family detention. He's the first Latino selected to lead the DHS.

On Monday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed charges against six Russian cyberhackers, who reportedly go by "Sandworm," alleging they were behind several hacks over the last four years. Some of those include allegedly hacking the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the 2017 French elections, and Ukrainian Parliament, finance ministry and electrical grid. Sandworm, who reportedly work for

The Jan. 6 committee’s fifth public hearing this month focused on former President Donald Trump’s efforts to persuade the Justice Department to support his 2020 election fraud claims. 

Following opening statements by committee chairman Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) introduced and began questioning the hearing’s 

Georgia voters will cast their ballots in two special U.S. Senate elections on Jan. 5 that will decide which political party controls the 50-member Congressional body. Incumbent Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are facing challenges from Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff; none of the four candidates gained 50% of the vote in the initial election, so state law requires