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House Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to investigate the Chinese government’s economic espionage efforts at U.S. research labs following a damning report about Beijing’s apparent extensive efforts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Republicans wrote to “express our serious concerns” about a new report seeming to show decadeslong Chinese government-linked infiltration into New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, a U.S. weapons and nuclear research site, “and to learn what steps your offices are taking to protect our critical research from malign talent recruitment programs.” The Tuesday letter, led by Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and 10 other House...

Report: Aging equipment, faulty phones at missile command By Kyle Balluck - 04/27/14 08:00 PM EDT Crews at a U.S. nuclear missile control center must deal with aging equipment and faulty telephones, according to a report on “60 Minutes.” Correspondent Lesley Stahl visited the underground ICBM complex surrounding F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyo., where she found missileers have trouble hearing what is being said on their phones. Computers there are so “ancient” they use floppy disks, according to the report, broadcast Sunday night. Former missileers contacted the program about problems with analog phone lines. “They’re awful,” one...

A US envoy has suggested the latest round of talks on North Korea's nuclear programme, now in its ninth day, could be nearing some kind of conclusion. Christopher Hill was speaking after China put forward yet another draft of a proposed joint statement. Mr Hill called the latest proposal "a very important text... designed to narrow the differences". The North wants security guarantees and aid before it will scrap its programme, conditions the US has baulked at. Both Mr Hill and North Korean envoy Kim Kye-gwan had earlier expressed doubts that an agreement would be achieved. Six nations - the...