America's rising crime rate and the future of policing are subjects of political debate, while police agencies across the nation face cyber threats.

Since the pandemic's onset six out of 10 IT security leaders cited their remote workforce as the cause of a data breach. Downloading content from illegal websites can put entire companies at risk for a cybersecurity breach.

"The dimension of cyber enables countries to operate and send a strong signal, but in a much more controlled way," Cybereason CEO Lior Div told Newsweek.

"We're still looking to the federal government on this issue and are not expecting Texas to fix this problem," Russell Boening of the Texas Farm Bureau told Newsweek. Texas still faces several eminent domain cases surrounding the previous building of the wall.

Americans now have more choices than ever before when it comes to upgrading their homes with the latest smart technology. However, recent security breaches across the nation have cybersecurity experts asking which products are worth the risk.

Stuart Madnick, director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan School of Management (CAMS), said that in terms of cybersecurity infrastructure, the higher education sector sits far behind the manufacturing and energy industries, which in turn fall a decade behind the nation's financial sector.

As America celebrates the month of Pride, LGBTQ+ refugees from across the world share their experiences and what it means to be Proud.

With over 359,000 unfilled jobs, the U.S. has the greatest shortage of cybersecurity talent in the western world.

As Texas, Arizona, and California face a historic heat wave, migrants traveling through the desert and awaiting asylum face medical risk.

“It's a moment of reckoning for our industry,” Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Security, said. “(Solar Winds) was one of the most complex attacks we've seen, and that continues.”

With fewer children and more adults crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the trend indicates a shift toward more economic migrants and fewer individuals seeking political asylum.

“There’s never one thing at work,” Tony Payan, Director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, told Newsweek. “Those who were waiting in Mexico are being let in, the flow is less, and the deportees are being processed more efficiently.”

LGBTQ+ individuals living in Central America's Northern Triangle face discrimination and violence. One trans women ventured to the U.S. and uplifted those in her community along the way.

"Those who arrived at the border and are already there in groups or caravans and are stuck there sometimes are so desperate they hire the services of a smuggler...a lot of smugglers visit migrant shelters and find new clients," said Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera of George Mason University.

“Once (migrants are) released from custody, it’s all on the NGOs to provide support,” Shaw Drake a Texas-based staff attorney and policy counsel for border and immigrants' rights at the ACLU, told Newsweek. “CBP facilities are notorious for not providing sufficient medical care.”

Title 42, which allows for the removal of immigrants entering the U.S. from countries where a contagious disease was present, was implemented in March 2020 by the Trump Administration during the COVID-19 pandemic, and remains in effect under the Biden administration.

Texas' Laredo Community College inked a deal with U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) to form a partnership in which CBP will provide instruction at the school to students interested in law enforcement careers.

Border town economies that rely on Mexican tourism struggle as the U.S. and Mexico extend restrictions on crossing at the border.

Instead of being transported to a city like Phoenix with a robust nonprofit support system and steady means of transportation, asylum seekers find themselves in small Arizona towns like Yuma.

The remains of at least 3,356 undocumented border crossers have been recovered in Arizona since 1990, an average of more than 100 deaths a year, a University of Arizona study has revealed.