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Lost in the showdown between President Donald Trump and James B. Comey that played out last week was a chilling threat to the United States. Comey, the former director of the FBI, testified that the Russians not only had intervened in last year’s election but would try to do it again.

"Overshadowed by Trump-Comey Standoff, a Warning About Russia" is from the June 11, 2017 Domestic section of The New York Times. It was written by Peter Baker and David E. Sanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

All the elements of the North Korean nuclear crisis — the relentless drive by Kim Jong Un to assemble an arsenal, the propaganda and deception swirling around his progress, the hints of a covert war by the United States to undermine the effort, rather than be forced into open confrontation — were on vivid display this weekend.

"U.S. Faces 'Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion'" is from the April 16, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad and narrated by Kristi Burns.

In launching a military strike just 77 days into his administration, President Donald Trump has the opportunity, but hardly a guarantee, to change the perception of disarray in his administration.

For years, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has been derided as an anti-American anarchist, indiscriminate in publishing leaks and far too cozy with Russia. For more than four years, he has been hiding out in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid sexual assault investigators in Sweden.

In one contentious exchange with Rubio, who ran against President-elect Donald Trump last year for the Republican nomination, Tillerson rebuffed an effort to get him to describe Putin as a war criminal for ordering the bombing of civilians in Chechnya. “I would not use that term,” he said.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday will order the construction of a Mexican border wall — the first in a series of actions this week to crack down on immigrants and bolster national security, including slashing the number of refugees who can resettle in the United States and blocking Syrians and others from “terror-prone” nations from entering, at least temporarily.

President Donald Trump on Friday made good on a long-running threat to disavow the Iran nuclear deal that was negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama. But he stopped short of unraveling the accord or even rewriting it, as the deal’s defenders had once feared.

"Trump Disavows Nuclear Deal and Denounces Iranian Leadership" is from the October 13, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Mark Landler and David E. Sanger and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

Jake Williams awoke in April in an Orlando, Florida, hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter, Williams, a cybersecurity expert, was dismayed to discover that he had been thrust into the middle of one of the worst security debacles ever to befall U.S. intelligence.

"Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the NSA to Its Core" is from the November 12, 2017 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Scott Shane, Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger and narrated by Kristi Burns.

When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them. They were digitally looting an account of the Bangladesh Central Bank, when bankers grew suspicious about a withdrawal request that had misspelled “foundation” as “fandation.”

"The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyber Power. No More." is from the October 15, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger, David D. Kirkpatrick and Nicole Perlroth and narrated by Kristi Burns.

A newly drafted U.S. nuclear strategy that has been sent to President Donald Trump for approval would permit the use of nuclear weapons to respond to a wide range of devastating but non-nuclear attacks on U.S. infrastructure, including what current and former government officials described as the most crippling kind of cyberattacks.

"Pentagon Suggests Countering Devastating Cyberattacks With Nuclear Arms" is from the January 17, 2018 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Nearly 18 years ago, one of North Korea’s most senior military officers stepped into the Oval Office and handed President Bill Clinton a letter from the isolated nation’s leader, inviting him to Pyongyang.

"Secret Tunnels, Mobile Missiles and Many Warheads: Verifying North Korean Disarmament Poses Challenges" is from the March 09, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and narrated by Mike DelGaudio.

At the start of Donald Trump’s presidency, U.S. intelligence agencies told the new administration that while North Korea had built the bomb, there was still ample time — upward of four years — to slow or stop its development of a missile capable of hitting a U.S. city with a nuclear warhead.

"U.S. Intelligence Failed to Foresee North Korea’s Nuclear Strides" is from the January 06, 2018 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and William J. Broad and narrated by Kristi Burns.

The Trump administration formally accused North Korea on Monday night of creating the WannaCry cyberattack that briefly paralyzed the British health system and placed ransomware on computers in dozens of countries around the world.

"U.S. Accuses North Korea of Mounting WannaCry Cyberattack" is from the December 18, 2017 Politics section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

A treaty committing the United States and Russia to keep their long-range nuclear arsenals at the lowest levels since early in the Cold War goes into full effect Monday. When it was signed eight years ago, President Barack Obama expressed hope that it would be a small first step toward deeper reductions, and ultimately a world without nuclear weapons.

"U.S., in Footsteps of Russia, Is Moving to Fortify Its Nuclear Arsenal" is from the February 04, 2018 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger, William J. Broad and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

President Donald Trump’s first national security strategy envisions a world in which the United States confronts two “revisionist” powers — China and Russia — that are seeking to change the global status quo, often to the detriment of America’s interests.

"Trump’s National Security Plan Warns of ‘Great Power Competition’ With Russia and China" is from the December 18, 2017 Politics section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and Mark Landler and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Just hours after President Vladimir Putin of Russia boasted last week about producing “invincible” new nuclear arms designed to evade U.S. missile defenses, President Donald Trump’s nominee to command the nation’s military cyberunits was being grilled at a Senate confirmation hearing about another vexing Russian threat.

"A Russian Threat on Two Fronts Meets a U.S. Strategic Void" is from the March 05, 2018 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger, William J. Broad and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

When the “Wannacry” ransomware attack spread across Britain, Japan Russia, Taiwan and places in between in May, it took only a few days for private firms that looked at the code to come to some pretty quick conclusions. The attack almost certainly came from North Korea. The North Koreans almost certainly used computer code that had leaked from the inner sanctum of the National Security Agency. And the ransomware part was a scam: If you paid off the hackers, your data still wasn’t restored.

"Nations Seek the Elusive Cure for Cyberattacks" is from the January 21, 2018 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on sweeping sanctions legislation to punish Russia for its election meddling and aggression toward its neighbors, they said Saturday, defying the White House’s argument that President Donald Trump needs flexibility to adjust the sanctions to fit his diplomatic initiatives with Moscow.

"As Congress Aims to Punish Russia, Trump Faces Bind" is from the July 22, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Matt Flegenheimer and David E. Sanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

North Korea’s success in testing a intercontinental missile that appears able to reach the U.S. was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program, according to an expert analysis being published Monday and classified assessments by U.S. intelligence agencies.

"North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say" is from the August 13, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by William J. Broad and David E. Sanger and narrated by Kristi Burns.

When then-President-elect Donald Trump said on Twitter in early January that a North Korean test of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States “won’t happen!” there were two things he still did not fully appreciate: how close Kim Jong In, the North’s leader, was to reaching that goal, and how limited any president’s options were to stop him.

"For Trump, Threats but Few Options in Confronting North Korea" is from the July 04, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by David E. Sanger and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.