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| Oct 31, 2024 | National Politics | Will we know the next president on election night? It’s more likely than you might think | Arizona election officials also expect it will take several days to tabulate their results, with Maricopa County officials pointing to high interest across the state and an especially long, two-page ballot this election cycle.
But results i... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | National Politics | 1 in 5 voters ready to use mail-in ballots. Is the Postal Service prepared? | “The USPS processes a total of 300 million pieces of mail each day,” Charles Stewart, a professor of political science at MIT, who studies elections, told McClatchy News.
“The total number of mail ballots will be something in the neighborho... |
| Oct 17, 2024 | National Politics | Most regular churchgoers — except one group — back Trump, survey finds | Sixty-five percent of Hispanic voters who seldom or never attend religious services said they’d vote for Harris, while 55% who attend weekly or more said they’d vote for Trump.
The survey also found 56% of white voters said they’d vote for ... |
| Sep 28, 2024 | The Shadow of Deception: How AI and Foreign Influence Shape American Politics | In the digital age, the battlefield of politics has shifted. No longer confined to rallies and debates, it now sprawls across the vast expanse of the internet. Here, misinformation thrives like weeds in a garden. The recent revelation about... |
| Sep 24, 2024 | National Politics | US intelligence says Russians created fake California news site to fabricate Harris scandal | The domain, kbsf-tv.com, was registered through Namecheap on Aug. 20, and the registrant used an address in Reykjavik that had been used in other online scams.
Articles on the site were posted without attribution and appear to take text fro... |
| Sep 23, 2024 | National Politics | Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both say food costs too much. What can they do about it? | And there are questions about whether either candidate’s initiatives are targeted in the right place.
“There is little evidence of price gouging. Reported net profits by food companies over the past couple of years show no evidence that pro... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | National Politics | Do independent voters support Harris or Trump? New poll finds big shift from month ago | Political experts previously told McClatchy News that his endorsement “could potentially boost support for Trump.”
In August, Harris likely also benefited from a honeymoon period with voters, having only been in the presidential race since ... |
| Sep 4, 2024 | National Politics | Donald Trump says he can stabilize prices. Does his plan make sense? | Independent analysts see those ideas as inflationary. For years, they’ve found companies tend to pass the higher tax on to consumers, and the price of getting materials to produce goods also goes up.
Kimberly Clausing and Mary Lovely, senio... |
| Aug 28, 2024 | National Politics | Kamala Harris says she’ll cut taxes for the middle class. Is that realistic? | Harris’ promise not to impose new taxes on people below that income level has been a favorite Biden promise for years, As she explained, her plan is building on Biden administration ideas. But Harris added some of her own wrinkles, notably ... |
| Aug 16, 2024 | National Politics | ‘Meet Kamala for the first time’: How this DNC could be different than past conventions | Biden’s announcement he was ending his campaign came just three days after the Republican National Convention wrapped on July 18.
And on Aug. 5, Harris became the party’s official nominee, without any opposition. She soon announced her runn... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | National Politics | Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, indicted in Arizona election interference case | Danielle Battaglia | (TNS) McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — An Arizona grand jury has indicted Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff and a former congressman, over his involvement in efforts to overturn the 20... |
| Jan 6, 2023 | It's still not clear what the Senate Ethics Committee is doing with a 2-year-old January 6 probe into Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley | Seven Democratic senators asked the ethics panel in January 2021 to determine whether Hawley and Cruz had engaged in “improper conduct reflecting on the Senate.” Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
Democrats lodged an ethics complain... |
| Nov 29, 2021 | The FAA accidentally disclosed more than 2,000 flight records associated with Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets | Insider requested all flight-history data associated with four planes owned by Jeffrey Epstein. The FAA rejected the request but later provided the records in response to an unrelated request.
The new FAA records include hundreds of previou... |
| Aug 27, 2021 | What We Know About ISIS-K, the Group Behind the Deadly Kabul Attack | The two explosions that killed scores of people on Thursday, including at least 13 American service members and dozens of Afghans, outside Kabul’s international airport were directed at the Taliban as much as at the foreign forces controlli... |
| Aug 4, 2021 | Fauci fears a COVID variant worse than Delta could be coming | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Jun 30, 2021 | ‘For the love of God, don’t do that’: Trump’s HHS secretary begged him not to praise the Chinese president’s pandemic response on Twitter, book says | Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar listens as President Donald Trump talks to reporters during a signing of a spending bill to combat the Coronavirus, at the White House, Friday, March 6, 2020, in Washington. AP Photo/Evan Vuc... |
| May 19, 2021 | Rudy Giuliani's son, Andrew, announces run for New York governor: 'I'm a politician out of the womb' | Andrew Giuliani, Republican candidate in the 2022 New York governor's race.
Rudy Giuliani's son announced on Tuesday that he's running for New York governor.
Andrew Giuliani, 35, called himself a "politician out of the womb".
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| May 18, 2021 | Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew, announces run for New York governor: ‘I’m a politician out of the womb’ | Andrew Giuliani, Republican candidate in the 2022 New York governor’s race. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
Rudy Giuliani’s son announced Tuesday that he’s running for New York governor.
Andrew Giuliani, 35, called hims... |
| Feb 9, 2021 | The Biden administration says it will look into veterans and their families who were deported | Mexican national US army veteran Hector Barajas at an event near the US-Mexico border. GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images
The Biden administration will review the deportations of US military veterans and their families.
An official said i... |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Disqualifying Insurrectionists and Rebels: A How-To Guide | In recent days, several scholars and lawmakers have suggested that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment might be used to bar Donald Trump and some of his allies from ever holding federal or state office again. The Section 3 route is a plausible ... |
| Jan 9, 2021 | Covid killing nearly 3,000 in U.S. every day as CDC warns of ‘surge event’ from Capitol riots | The U.S. reported more than 3,400 Covid deaths on Friday, which pushed the seven-day average of daily new deaths to a record-high 2,983.
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, said the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters o... |
| Dec 18, 2020 | States say federal government cutting COVID-19 vaccine allocations | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Oct 28, 2020 | Meet 39 journalists who made political contributions. They're among dozens who've together given at least $110,000 mostly to 2020 Democrats, including Biden, Bernie, and AOC. | Should newsrooms rethink their political-participation policies? Some say yes. Above, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden with reporters on September 18. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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| Sep 20, 2020 | Trump’s Supreme Quandary: Catholics Or Converts? | If the choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy is federal judge and Miami native Barbara Lagoa ... [+] (seen here with Gov. Ron DeSantis), would that be President Trump admitting that he can't win without Florida's 29 electoral votes? (Pho... |
| Sep 3, 2020 | Covid-19 roundup: Albert Bourla says Pfizer PhIII is at 23,000 patients, submission coming end of October | Months ago, public health officials thought it could take several months to prove a vaccine works. Even when continually high coronavirus case counts in the US made trials easier to run, there was still concern about how qui... |
| Aug 16, 2020 | Trump Supports $1,200 Stimulus Check And Unemployment Benefits Combined With Aid To Postal Service | WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 14: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the ... [+] briefing room of the White House on August 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. Later in the day, President Trump is expected to visit his younger... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | Proposal: $5,000 Advance Of The Child Tax Credit In The Next Stimulus Bill? | Last year, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) looked to pass a parental leave plan that would allow parents to receive an advance of $5,000 from their Child Tax Credit when they gave birth or adopted a child. |
| Jun 1, 2020 | Congress Should Investigate the Trump Administration’s Coronavirus Response | Congressional investigations can make a world of difference in humanitarian crises. In 2008-2009, I led the staff of a bipartisan Senate investigation of the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, probing the government’s failu... |
| May 26, 2020 | Cannabis Legalization Is Key To Economic Recovery, Much Like Ending Alcohol Prohibition Helped Us Out Of The Great Depression | Our nation is in the midst of the greatest crisis in generations, with the Covid-19 pandemic impacting Americans’ physical and emotional well-being, while plummeting the nation’s economy into the worst economic downturn in our lifetimes. As... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | New disclosure reveals Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband dumped retail stock and bought shares in a company that manufacturers medical supplies | REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert
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Sen. Kelly Loeffler just disclosed more stock trades, including selling shares in retail companies and buying up stocks in Dupont, which makes medical supplies, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Congress Needs a Coronavirus Failsafe—Before It’s Too Late | Late last Wednesday, March 16, Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ben McAdams became the first members of Congress to announce their diagnosis with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. But they weren’t the last. On Su... |
| Feb 13, 2020 | McClatchy Files For Bankruptcy, Further Signaling America’s Local News Crisis | Almost 50%. That’s how many newspaper jobs disappeared between 2008 and 2018, according to the Pew ... [+] Research Center.Getty |
| Jan 22, 2020 | Ignoring Security Experts, Washington State Eyes Voting by Smartphone | Seattle and other Washington state residents will soon be allowed to vote in an upcoming election via smartphone—even if security experts continue to say that’s an idiotic idea. The King County Conservation District (KCD), a public land man... |
| Nov 22, 2019 | Rational Security: The 'Lonely Amigo' Edition | The House conducts marathon impeachment hearings with key witnesses. And Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted.
Ben wonders, what's the difference between sh-- and ass?
Margaret is making pies.
Susan is concerned about lawsu... |
| Nov 20, 2019 | Shield Compliance nabs $5M for cannabis banking platform | Shield Compliance CEO Noah Carey. (Shield Compliance Photo)
New funding: Seattle-based Shield Compliance raised $5 million in Series A funding to build out its platform that helps pot companies and banks get along.
Lead investor: The round ... |
| Oct 8, 2019 | Opinion: Steven Greenhut: Congress may help cannabis firms play by the rules | By Steven Greenhut
In a free and just society, laws should be clearly designed and easy to follow so that honest people know the ground rules and can live their lives without fear of running afoul of the government. In fact, it’s the mark o... |
| Sep 26, 2019 | Self-Impeaching: On the Trump-Zelensky Conversation | This time it’s different.
The misconduct cannot be dismissed as unproven; it screams off the plain text of the White House’s own memorandum detailing the president’s phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart. It cannot be disparaged... |
| May 7, 2019 | U.S. renews some nuclear waivers for Iran, breaking from hard line | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Apr 8, 2019 | Democrats made a move to be able to drop by ICE detention centers whenever they want | Want the best from VICE News in your inbox? Sign up here.
House Democrats are pushing for the ability to drop by immigration detention centers and check out the conditions — an opportunity that has repeatedly eluded some legislators in the ... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Revolving Doors And Regulatory Capture Are Ensuring E-Voting Remains An Insecure Mess | Despite the long list of bad news generated by electronic voting machines, their market share only continues to grow. Rather than consider them the attack vectors they are, state and county legislators have decided to toss caution and paper... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | IDC predicts China to have 2.76 billion surveillance cameras by 2022 | Market research firm IDC projected China’s public surveillance camera network will keep growing to see a total of 2.76 billion units installed nationwide by 2022, as the country quickens its pace in “smart cities” construction.
However, IDC... |
| Jan 30, 2019 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Following Tuesday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in which U.S. intelligence leaders contradicted some foreign policy statements made by President Trump, Trump rejected their assessments, calling intelligence officials “passive and ... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | A Taliban attack on an Afghanistan military intelligence base outside of Kabul killed more than 40 people on Monday, resulting in another major defeat for the Afghan army, the BBC details.
The Trump administration’s decision to relieve sanc... |
| Nov 11, 2018 | The U.S. Drone War in Pakistan Revisited | Editor’s Note: The armed drone has become the emblem of U.S. counterterrorism, but critics charge that it leads to high numbers of civilian casualties and a popular backlash in places like Pakistan. Asfandyar Mir, a postdoctoral fellow at S... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Trump and Pence say China is hacking the midterms. Facebook and Twitter say they’re wrong. | President Donald Trump insists that China is aggressively interfering in the 2018 midterm elections. It’s a claim that's been echoed by Vice President Mike Pence.
Unfortunately for the White House, Facebook and Twitter officials have found ... |
| Aug 6, 2018 | Court Says Comey And Other DOJ Officials Must Answer BuzzFeed's Questions About The Steele Dossier | Since publishing the urine-soaked “Steele Dossier,” BuzzFeed has been targeted with multiple defamation lawsuits. Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, ultimately dropped his lawsuit against the website after his own legal problems pretty m... |
| Jun 19, 2018 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interview with Megan Stifel | Our interview is with Megan Stifel, whose paper for Public Knowledge offers a new way of thinking about cybersecurity measures, drawing by analogy on the relative success of sustainability initiatives in spurring environmental consciousness... |
| May 25, 2018 | Russian unit, GRU officer linked to 2014 shoot-down of airliner over Ukraine | Enlarge / Eliot Higgins (C), founder of online investigation group Bellingcat, addresses a press conference on findings within research on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, on May 25, 2018. - The Netherlands an... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Michael Cohen Drops Ridiculous Lawsuit Against Buzzfeed After Buzzfeed Sought Stormy Daniels' Details | Donald Trump’s long time lawyer, Michael Cohen has been in a bit of hot water of late. As you no doubt heard, the FBI raided Cohen’s office and home seeking a bunch of information, some of which related to the $130,000 he paid to adult perf... |
| Apr 7, 2018 | Can SaaS principles transform political campaigns as we know them? | In life, they say you get what you pay for. That is no less true in politics, which is fueled by campaign donations and lobbying dollars that move policy on every important issue under the sun. The disclosed expenditures of the DC lobbying ... |
| Mar 28, 2018 | Democratic candidate is using Tinder — to attract voters | Originally Published by:
Hillary Clinton tries to explain her comments on Trump voters after backlash North Carolina father-daughter couple arrested for incest after having love child North Carolina lawmaker told to stop claiming she's a nu... |
| Mar 19, 2018 | Trump Orders Sanctions Against Venezuela's Crypto | Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing new sanctions against Venezuela for its controversial "petro" cryptocurrency.
The U.S. president was previously said to be preparing to sign an executive order imposing additiona... |
| Mar 12, 2018 | Ivanka reportedly makes $1 million a year from family business | More On: ivanka trump
Trump blasts AG James for probing businesses instead of fighting crime Daddy's girl: Trump blasts Jan. 6 panel's 8-hour questioning of Ivanka as ‘harassment’ Ivanka Trump voluntarily appearing before Jan. 6 committee: ... |
| Mar 5, 2018 | Evaluating the Russian Threat to Undersea Cables | Is vital internet infrastructure at risk from new Russian naval capabilities? NATO’s military leadership has warned in recent months that the Russian navy is aggressively probing undersea communications cable networks. These cables form a g... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | Kaspersky Lab v. DHS: The Government's Response and Kaspersky's Reply | In December 2017, the Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security over an order labeling Kaspersky software an “information security risk” and ordering the removal of all relevant sof... |
| Feb 8, 2018 | Commercial Content Moderation And Worker Wellness: Challenges & Opportunities | Last week, Santa Clara University hosted a gathering of tech platform companies to discuss how they actually handle content moderation questions. Many of the participants in the event have written essays about the questions that were discus... |
| Jan 9, 2018 | H-1B visa extensions for workers waiting on green cards are safe for now | The Trump administration appears to be creating distance between itself and rumors that it might end the practice of extending H-1B visas during the green card application process. The rumored change would have a large impact on foreign tec... |
| Oct 27, 2017 | News ways of making and spending money with your phone – China’s latest business and technology news | |
| Oct 24, 2017 | Iraqis and Kurds Compete for Oil Deals, Gulf States Still Fighting PR War in Washington, Deadly Ambush in Egypt | Iraq and Kurdistan Broker Oil Deals in Contested Regions
The pressure is continuing to mount on Iraqi Kurdistan. After Iraqi forces pressed into Kirkuk last week, Baghdad and its regional partners have cinched their cordon around Kurdish ar... |
| Sep 17, 2017 | Intelligence, Politicization, and the Russia Probe | Editor’s Note: The incoming administration's scorn for intelligence professionals is a matter of grave concern to many of us at Lawfare. I, for one, worry that the administration will conduct its foreign policy without understanding the dyn... |
| Sep 11, 2017 | Trump hires Chinese company to build newest golf club | President Trump’s family business hired a construction company owned by the Chinese government to work on his golf club development in Dubai even though he vowed that he wouldn’t engage with foreign entities while in the White House, accord... |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Intelligence Oversight Committees Are Being Stocked With Former Intelligence Agency Employees | RESOLVED: this nation’s intelligence oversight is indisputably useless. It’s about 99% joke and 1% Ron Wyden dog-whistle questions that go unanswered for months or years. Committees on both sides of the legislature are composed mostly of su... |
| Jul 25, 2017 | New Tensions on Temple Mount, CIA Ends Aid to Syrian Rebels, Gulf Crisis Affecting Regional Foreign Policy, and Trump Looking for Excuse to Leave Iran Deal | Attack on Israeli Police on Temple Mount Launches Protests and Clashes
Israel and the Palestinians are lurching through another round of violence. Though it’s always controversial to point to a particular incident instigating a crisis in Is... |
| Jul 10, 2017 | Trump backtracks on his dumb idea to work with Russia to stop hacks | Reactions to President Trump’s idea to create an “impenetrable cyber security unit” in collaboration with the Kremlin were still rolling in Monday morning, ranging from stunned to shocked to baffled. And in the end, even Trump himself didn’... |
| May 17, 2017 | Try this alternative to banning laptops and tablets on planes, airline group says | As U.S. security officials consider expanding a ban on laptops, tablets and other such electronic devices in the cabins of commercial flights, an airline trade group proposed tightening security measures instead.
Passengers on flights to th... |
| May 15, 2017 | Partisan Political Figures Cannot Run the FBI | Rumors are flying that Donald Trump will soon nominate a replacement for James Comey as FBI Director—perhaps even before he leaves on his foreign trip at the end of this week. It’s hard to imagine the universe of people who would both accep... |
| May 5, 2017 | Water Wars: ASEAN Soft-Pedals South China Sea Disputes | Official Statement Omits Land Reclamation and Militarization Activities, Praises “Improving Cooperation”
Photo: Reuters
The annual ASEAN Summit wrapped up in Manila on Saturday and the official closing statement captures a wide-ranging disc... |
| May 4, 2017 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | President Donald Trump will visit Saudi Arabia and Israel later this month in his first trip abroad, the New York Times writes. While in Riyadh, he will meet with leaders of Muslim nations to discuss efforts to combat terrorism in the regio... |
| Mar 21, 2017 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The New York Times reports that passengers on foreign airlines to the United States from ten airports in eight Muslim-majority countries have been barred from carrying electronic devices larger than a cell phone under new flight restriction... |
| Mar 20, 2017 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | At the House Intelligence Committee’s open hearing on Russian interference in the presidential election, FBI Director James Comey confirmed the existence of an ongoing investigation into election interference and possible connections betwee... |
| Mar 16, 2017 | Rep. Devin Nunes' Hypocrisy On Display In 'Concerns' Over NSA Surveillance | We’ve talked about the astounding hypocrisy of Rep. Devin Nunes a few times in the past. He heads the House Intelligence Committee, which is supposed to be conducting “oversight” of the intelligence community, but has generally been a cheer... |
| Mar 8, 2017 | China and ASEAN: A code of conduct for the South China Sea | |
| Feb 23, 2017 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The New York Times reports that the National Security Council may be reorganized yet again now that Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is serving as national security adviser. McMaster, who has made a point of building relations with NSC staff, is weig... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | Trump in 30 Seconds Archive Nov. 2016 – Jan. 31, 2017 | advertisement
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| Feb 19, 2017 | DHS memos signal strict new border enforcement and action on undocumented immigrants | The Department of Homeland Security has drafted two new memos which aim to ramp up deportation efforts against undocumented immigrants in the United States.
The memos, which were signed by DHS Secretary John Kelly and dated Friday, were rep... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | Congressional Republican threats to Caltrain funding could cripple Bay Area’s growth | Alon Levy Contributor
Alon Levy is a Paris-based writer about public transportation design and urbanism.
Caltrain has a problem.
Passenger numbers are exploding thanks to the Bay Area’s tech boom, and service has not kept up with demand. Pe... |
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| Jan 25, 2017 | What Do We Know About Investigations Into Trump Associates’ Ties to Russia? | On Sunday night, the Wall Street Journal broke a story that U.S. counterintelligence officials “had investigated” the communications of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn as part of a counterintelligence inquiry. This set off a storm o... |
| Jan 19, 2017 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Foreign Policy warns us that the Trump national security team continues to be “missing in action” on the eve of the inauguration. The lack of key deputies may hobble the new administration’s response to emergency situations as posts remain ... |
| Jan 6, 2017 | WikiLeaks to US government: Stop leaking secrets! | Enlarge / Julian Assange's Wikileaks is shocked—shocked—that someone would leak secrets for political reasons.
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| Nov 18, 2016 | President-Elect Trump Begins to Assemble His National Security Team | After a jerky start, the Trump transition appears to be well underway. As of this morning the President-elect has selected three key members of his national security team: Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Representative Mike Pomp... |
| Oct 27, 2016 | How Gary Johnson Lost Millennials | October has been a bad month for Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson. As FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten noted on Monday, not only are his polling numbers in a steady decline, he's been overshadowed by independent conservative can... |
| Oct 18, 2016 | Asking you to change passwords makes it easier to hack the system | ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this Wednesday, May 18, 2016, file photo, the Home Depot logo appears on a credit card reader at a Home Depot store in Bellingham, Mass. The Yahoo hack, reported on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, exposed personal details from... |
| Oct 9, 2016 | U.S. taxpayers are paying intelligence contractors to browse Facebook, watch porn, and commit crimes | When contractors and employees who work for America’s most powerful intelligence agencies get bored at work, they sometimes kill time by viewing pornography on their government computers, browsing online dating services, engaging in “sex ch... |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Homicides in Mexico: What Goes Up Does Not Necessarily Come Down | A few years ago, it seemed that Mexico’s security challenges were everywhere. They were featured on CNN, in Time Magazine, and in the agendas of most bilateral meetings.
But over the past few years, the spotlight on Mexico’s security crisis... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Director Of National Intelligence 'Celebrates' National Whistleblower Day… Without Mentioning Snowden Once | In accordance with the new instructions to wrap its arms gingerly around transparency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is following the letter of the law in its tepid celebration of National Whistleblower Day. |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Intelligence Community's Top Whistleblower Protector In Need Of Some Whistleblower Protection | Daniel Meyer is the Executive Director of Intelligence Community’s Whistleblowing and Source Protection. He’s in the best position to fight for the protection of intelligence whistleblowers against retaliation for taking their complaints th... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | California bill to protect surviving homeowners up for vote | California’s Homeowner Bill of Rights went into effect in 2013 and stopped mortgage servicers from engaging in abusive practices that were leading to unnecessary foreclosures on families throughout California.
However, some homeowners, most... |
| May 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (May – July) | Saturday-Sunday, July 30-31 The big news right now Zika cases are surging in Puerto Rico, and health officials fear hundreds of babies could be born with severe brain defects (STAT) A study suggests that all strains of the Zika virus are of... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Islamic State fighters abducted at least 170 workers from a cement factory this week. The New York Times reports that “if confirmed, the kidnapping would punctuate the Islamic State’s penchant for brazen acts even in the face of recent defe... |
| Mar 9, 2016 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Defense officials confirmed today that an Islamic State detainee, who is a specialist in chemical weapons, is currently being questioned by American forces about the pseudo-state’s plans to use the banned substances in Iraq and Syria. The N... |
| Feb 1, 2016 | Historic Day in Myanmar as New Parliament Opens, Ending Decades of Military Rule | Hundreds of lawmakers from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy (NLD) were sworn into Myanmar's parliament on Monday, with enough seats to choose the country's first democratically-elected government since the military took power... |
| Jan 27, 2016 | Ted Cruz under fire for Goldman Sachs connections | GOP Presidential candidate Ted Cruz continues to be criticized for his links to Goldman Sachs, the company where his wife Heidi, is a managing director at the firm in Houston.
While It’s no surprise that politicians need to raise money for ... |
| Jan 15, 2016 | Yosemite Changing The Names Of Popular Park Landmarks Following The Most Ridiculous Trademark Dispute Ever | Yosemite National Park is apparently changing the names of a bunch of famous sites and buildings in the park thanks to one of the most ridiculous trademark disputes you’ll ever hear about. Ever stayed at the famous historic Ahwahnee hotel? ... |
| Dec 18, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Editor’s Note: Lawfare’s Headlines and Commentary will be at the beach next week. We’ll be back in your inbox on Monday, December 28th. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
In an address yesterday at the National Counterterrorism Center, Pre... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Fallout from Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian fighter jet last Tuesday continues. Reuters tells us that Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu dismissed “any suggestion Ankara should apologize for downing a Russian warplane in its airspa... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The suspected architect behind Friday’s attacks in Paris was reportedly killed in a raid involving over 100 security personnel and lasting more than seven hours. Abdelhamid Abaaoud and one other suspect died, and seven others were arrested ... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | More than two weeks after a Russian plane crashed over the Sinai Peninsula, Russian officials have confirmed that a bomb was responsible for bringing down the plane. The head of the FSB, Russia’s security service, stated that they “can uneq... |
| Nov 11, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Meeting for the first time in thirteen months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama sought to put aside their differences of the specifics of the Iran nuclear deal, choosing instead “to highlight their shared... |