FBI Director Christopher Wray says masked foreign online campaigns to pit Americans against each other have continued “virtually unabated.” But he says the United States had not seen a “material impact on election” systems from foreign adversaries in the recent midterm elections. Speaking at a cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, he added that the wider cyber threats facing the nation are “unlike anything we have had in our lifetimes,” citing an uptick in threats from Russia, Iran, China and North Korea. [CNN]
Topping the news: The sponsor of a proposed ban on conversion therapy watched colleagues dismantle it with an alternative that he says would do nothing to stop the widely discredited practice of trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ youth.