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Guy Taylor

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Guy Taylor is the National Security Editor at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence coverage and driving the daily Threat Status newsletter. He has reported from dozens of countries and been a guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, C-SPAN and The McLaughlin Group.
A series Mr. Taylor led on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election was recognized with a Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and a Society for Professional Journalists award. In 2012, he won a Virginia Press Association award reporting from Mexico.Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Mr. Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism. He wrote for a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He also served as an editor at World Politics Review, wrote for America's Quarterly and produced videos and features for Agence France-Presse.Mr. Taylor holds an M.S. in Global Security Studies from Angelo State University and a B.A. from Clark University. He was part of a team who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their reporting on the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.

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Articles by Guy Taylor

In this Aug. 30, 2018, file photo, a new citizens holds an American flag and passport during a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Kendall Field Office in Miami.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) **FILE**

Biden administration eases gender requirements on U.S. passports

The State Department said Wednesday it will no longer require Americans to provide medical documentation proving their gender on passport applications, paving the way for individuals to choose a gender they self-identify with regardless of what their birth certificate or hospital records indicate.

June 30, 2021
In this file photo, a Colonial Pipeline station is seen, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Smyrna, Ga., near Atlanta.  (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Fear of doomsday cyberattack yields truce between feds and private sector

The recent surge of cyberattacks has triggered a blame game between private industry and federal agencies over who truly bears responsibility for ensuring such incidents don't cripple critical infrastructure for things like fuel, electricity and water supplies and cause massive damage to the economy.

June 29, 2021
President Joe Biden, right, meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden vows to back Afghan leaders as U.S. pullout accelerates

President Biden hosted Afghanistan's president and top peace negotiator at the White House Friday, vowing to maintain U.S. support for the embattled Kabul government even as the last American and NATO troops leave and fears mount of a major Taliban offensive.

June 25, 2021
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, June 18, 2021. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Biden administration offers to meet North Koreans ‘anytime, without preconditions’

The Biden administration is eager to meet with North Korean officials "anywhere, anytime without preconditions," a top U.S. diplomat said on a visit to South Korea Monday, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signaled that his regime is preparing for dialogue or confrontation -- but more for confrontation -- with Washington.

June 21, 2021
In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. Central and Eastern European nations are anxious about the Wednesday, June 16, 2021, summit meeting between now-U.S. President Biden and Putin, wary of what they see as hostile intentions from the Kremlin. (RIA Novostia/Alexei Druzhinin/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

China’s rise colors Biden-Putin summit

President Biden's high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to be dominated by friction over everything from Russia-linked cyberattacks and election interference to human rights abuses and what U.S. officials see as a meddlesome Kremlin foreign policy aimed at undermining efforts to promote stability and democracy around the world.

June 14, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive on Air Force One at Cornwall Airport Newquay, near Newquay, England, ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, early Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden to stress strengthening alliances before fraught Putin summit

President Biden arrived in England on Wednesday for his first foreign trip, telling U.S. troops at an air base that he's on a mission to reinforce alliances with the world's leading democracies before his showdown next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

June 9, 2021
President Joe Biden salutes as he boards Air Force One upon departure, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is embarking on the first overseas trip of his term, and is eager to reassert the United States on the world stage, steadying European allies deeply shaken by his predecessor and pushing democracy as the only bulwark to the rising forces of authoritarianism. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Full agenda, alliance repair top Biden’s Europe to-do list

President Biden embarked on his first foreign trip Wednesday hoping to revamp transatlantic ties, forge a vaccine strategy for the COVID-19 fight and unite the world's most economically advanced democracies to fight Russian and Chinese geopolitical provocations and a rising menace in cyberspace.

June 9, 2021
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a meeting with the foreign ministers of Mexico and Central American Integration System (SICA) member states at Intercontinental Hotel Costa Rica,  in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday,  June 1, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Blinken pressed on alleged Soros link to U.S. moves in Balkans

A key Republican on Capitol Hill grilled Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday for an explanation of why the State Department has not produced evidence to back up its corruption allegations against former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, a one-time high-profile ally of U.S. efforts to promote democracy in the Balkans.

June 7, 2021
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco is followed by FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate as she arrives to announce the recovery of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from the Colonial Pipeline Co. ransomware attacks at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, June 7, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Intel says Putin supports ransomware attacks on U.S.; Biden admin. caught flat-footed

Organized cybercriminals emboldened by autocrats -- most prominently Russian President Vladimir Putin -- have caught Washington flat-footed with a rising tide of ransomware and other hacking operations that intelligence sources say have the dual aim of weakening the U.S. economy while gaining geopolitical leverage over Washington on the world stage.

June 7, 2021
In this file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, right, and Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne, left, participate in the inaugural Quad leaders meeting with the President of the United States Joe Biden, the Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga and the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in a virtual meeting in Sydney, Saturday, March 13, 2021. (Dean Lewins/Pool via AP)  **FILE**

EXCLUSIVE: Biden not seeking to add countries to Quad to counter China

Biden administration officials say they are not pushing to add other countries to the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia "Quad" group but stress that the future of American policy in the Indo-Pacific region hinges on the deepening alignment among the four powerful democracies to counter authoritarian China's increasingly aggressive rise on the world stage.

June 6, 2021
A demonstrator holds a poster of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack in early January 2020, in a pro-Palestinians gathering in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. Chief of the powerful Revolutionary Guard Gen. Hossein Salami said in the gathering that Israel has become weaker and the Palestinians have become stronger and more powerful. Iran does not recognize Israel and supports anti-Israeli militant groups like Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Recent Mideast clash highlights Iran backing of Palestinian militants

Israeli forces and Palestinian militants issued competing declarations of victory after the horrific 11-day war that shook the Middle East through mid-May, but there are concerns among some in Washington that Iran gained the most from clash on the tactical and strategic levels.

May 30, 2021
In this Wednesday, June 26, 2013, file photo, Prime Minister Sali Berisha of the Democratic Party concedes defeat in front of his supporters at the party headquarters in Tirana. The United States has sanctioned former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, barring him from entering the country after being accused of involvement in significant corruption. Berisha, 76, who was also president in the 1990s, is now a lawmaker in the opposition Democratic Party. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Wednesday that Berisha was involved in corrupt acts, such as misappropriation of public funds and interfering with public processes. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina) ** FILE **

Sali Berisha, ex-Albanian leader, rejects U.S. charges of corruption

Former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha insists there is "zero evidence" behind corruption allegations that Secretary of State Antony Blinken leveled against him recently, asserting the decision to bar him from entering the U.S. was based on "misinformation" from outfits backed by billionaire philanthropist and investor George Soros.

May 28, 2021
In this file photo, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, heads into a Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2020. On May 21, Mr. Risch and fellow Republicans on his committee voted to recommend the Senate confirm Michael Pack to head up the U.S. Agency for Global Media. No Democrat on the panel voted in favor of the nomination. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Hill fight stymies drive to monitor Chinese money in U.S. universities

A backroom fight on Capitol Hill over increased government scrutiny of Chinese gifts to U.S. universities took a fresh twist Wednesday, with a key Republican pushing anew to give a key executive branch panel greater enforcement powers to examine the issue to crack down on abuses.

May 26, 2021