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For weeks on far-right networks across the web, extremists discussed their plans for violence. Is it happening again?

FAST THINKING: How the Capitol riot was coordinated online Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council JUST IN The mob that broke into the US Capitol yesterday was aided significantly by online coordination and planning. The team at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab has conducted exhaustive research into how that happened, combing through social media and other networks frequented by the far r...

FAST THINKING: Will a Brexit deal be home for Christmas? Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council JUST IN The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator said yesterday that a trade deal could come before Christmas. That would be quite the gift for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who faces the prospect of his country “crashing out” of its old trading arrangements with the EU. With a new variant of th...

FAST THINKING: The Fed caps its most important year ever Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council JUST IN We’re kicking off this edition with a financial term: “quantitative easing,” or QE. It’s what the US Federal Reserve does when it buys up assets like Treasury bonds to inject funds into the economy, lowering borrowing costs and boosting consumer and government spending. This was more crucial than ev...

FAST THINKING: Why the new Russian hacks are a game-changer Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council JUST IN The bad news keeps coming about the scope of a suspected Russian hack: The US Department of Homeland Security was compromised, in addition to the State, Treasury, and Commerce Departments and parts of the Pentagon. The breaches, reportedly carried out by an arm of the Russian intelligence services, tar...

Efforts and preparedness efforts. so its -- you know its important that you have a greater police presence at these events. you have what with we call leader security at an event you may have the gates but also security on the other side of the gates. then of course it cant be forgotten the extent to which investments in the first responders are key because that saves lives. we have a horrible, horrible fatality rate right now. but without the sort of fast thinking without you see the pictures o...

Rushing her asthmatic son to the hospital when he stopped breathing in the car. she spotted the officer at a gas station and the two of them rushed him inside. you can see the officer doing cpr until the paramedics arrived. >> revive a human being and give them life again. is truly humbling experience. something i couldnt even begin to describe. its a great feeling. >> officer simmons, with his fast thinking on his feet, he saved him. without him my son would not be here today. >> her son is now...