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| Aug 8, 2026 | ICE Got Body Cameras; Policy Lets Director Withhold Fatal Shooting Footage | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Aug 08 2026, 7:01 AM EDT
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| Aug 3, 2026 | Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BERNARD CONDON and BRIAN SLODYSKO
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump knows the world hangs on his every word. Now he wants you to pay for it.
The social media posts of the world’s most power... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Presidential Posts for Profit: Truth Social's Market-Moving Access Plan | Trump Media & Technology (TMTG) plans a new service: Truth PSI. It offers early access to high-ranking Truth Social posts. Wall Street traders will gain crucial milliseconds. This includes potentially market-moving posts from President ... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Paying for early access to Trump’s Truth Social could raise big money – and major ethical issues | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BERNARD CONDON
NEW YORK (AP) — America’s first billionaire president may soon be profiting from a new line of business tied to his office: charging access for a first peek at certain posts on hi... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Pentagon Routes Critical Minerals Loans Through Private Funds Under $100B Authority | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jul 16 2026, 2:31 PM EDT
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| May 29, 2026 | Michael Dell courted Trump early. His company has reaped rewards | Michael Dell bought into President Donald Trump’s second term early.
This week, the company was awarded a $9.7 billion Pentagon contract to provide a suite of software to the U.S. military.
Dell Technologies shares have been on a roll since... |
| May 27, 2026 | US will need years to replenish stockpiles of advanced weapons used in Iran war, new analysis finds | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BEN FINLEY
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military contractors need at least three years to replenish stockpiles of three key weapons systems used heavily in the Iran war, according to an analysis relea... |
| Dec 15, 2025 | FDA approved a $250,000 Singapore work trip during government shutdown, records show | SINGAPORE — Sentosa Island boasts the luxury, five-star Ora and Michael hotels, with palm-tree-lined pools, lobbies flanked with luxury stores, and a casino that adjoins both hotels and buzzes with gamblers. The Singapore resort is also whe... |
| Jun 14, 2025 | Exclusive: White House reviews SpaceX contracts as Trump-Musk feud simmers, sources say | Exclusive: White House reviews SpaceX contracts as Trump-Musk feud simmers, sources say
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| Feb 21, 2025 | Yes, You Have The Right To Film ICE | Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already begun increasing enforcement operations, including highly publicized raids. As immigrant communities, families, allies, and activists think about what can be do... |
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| Aug 21, 2024 | Health | The FDA calls them ‘recalls,’ yet the targeted medical devices often remain in use | “It’s very oxymoronic,” said Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco and former editor in chief of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. “A recall makes it sound like it’s recalled. But that is not actually... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Health | Ten doctors on FDA panel reviewing Abbott heart device had financial ties with company | David Hilzenrath, Holly K. Hacker | KFF Health News (TNS)
When the FDA recently convened a committee of advisers to assess a cardiac device made by Abbott, the agency didn’t disclose that most of them had received payments from the company ... |
| Feb 14, 2024 | First US Air Force wing to get operational A-10 attack aircraft nearly 50 years ago starts sending its Warthogs to the boneyard | Military & Defense First US Air Force wing to get operational A-10 attack aircraft nearly 50 years ago starts sending its Warthogs to the boneyard
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| May 17, 2023 | The Lawfare Podcast: Inside the Capitol Police’s Intelligence Dysfunction | The House’s select committee on Jan. 6 may have wound down its work at the end of December 2022, but questions about why law enforcement, including the U.S. Capitol Police, were unprepared for the possibility of an insurrection remain. A ne... |
| May 4, 2023 | CISOs, Don’t Ignore the FISA Section 702 Debate | Chief information security officers (CISOs) in the U.S. and abroad may not realize the stake they have in a congressional battle shaping up this year.
The two of us have spent our careers advising CISOs: the men and women battling hackers a... |
| Mar 5, 2023 | The US Air Force is stripping most of the identifying information off of its biggest planes | A US Air Force KC-135 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey in August 2016. US Air National Guard/Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht
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US Air Mobility Command has ordered its refueling and cargo planes to obscure their identifying m... |
| Dec 16, 2022 | Fintechs are under scrutiny over fraudulent PPP loans and small businesses could suffer. Here are the biggest takeaways from the federal investigation. | Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina is the chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
A federal investigation blames fintechs for rampant Paycheck Protection ... |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Unpacking The 2020 Portland Chaos | In October 2022, an unredacted version of a redacted 2021 report sponsored by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf regarding the 2020 Portland riots was released to the public. The Wolf report was supposed to rev... |
| Nov 7, 2022 | Pentagon Blocks Contractor Push for Inflation Bailout | In a rare victory for taxpayers, the Pentagon announced last week that it will not give special treatment to weapons contractors based on their overwrought and inaccurate claims about the impacts of inflation on the arms industry. |
| Nov 1, 2022 | The Facial Recognition Act: A Promising Path to Put Guardrails on a Dangerously Unregulated Surveillance Technology | On Sept. 28, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)—along with Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Yvette Clarke (D-Mass.), and Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.)—introduced the Facial Recognition Act, a bill that sets broad limits on law enforcement use of facial r... |
| Oct 3, 2022 | Cyber attacks more likely to bring down US’ most-advanced F-35 stealth fighter jet than Russian missiles | The F-35 is the US’ most advanced F-35 stealth fighter jet. It’s a high-tech stealthy fighter jet capable of evading radar while infiltrating enemy airspace to deliver a knockout blow. However, as sophisticated as F-35 is, it has one major ... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | January 6th Committee Once Again Tries To Get The DHS Inspector General To Cooperate With Its Investigation | Joseph Cuffari, addressed as the “Honorable” in this letter [PDF] from the House Committee seeking information on the January 6, 2021 raid of the Capitol building in an attempt to overturn election results, has been anything but honorable s... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Secret Service Wiped Jan. 6 Insurrection Texts And The DHS Inspector General Helped Cover It Up | Congressional hearings into the January 6, 2021 raid of the US Capitol building continue, focusing on the actions of Donald Trump and members of his administration as they sought to have Trump’s loss turned into a win. |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Fresh from controversy, contact center analytics firm Loris raises $12M | While some surveys show that people prefer to talk to a human as opposed to a chatbot, whether they’re shopping online or dealing with a customer service issue, that hasn’t dissuaded companies from adopting them. A 2019 Salesforce report fo... |
| Apr 7, 2022 | The organ procurement system is failing people of color like me. It’s time for reform | I am a Black woman who has been waiting for seven years for a kidney transplant. The organ procurement system has failed me — apparently by design.
In December 2021, a federal judge ordered that official policymaking emails from the United ... |
| Mar 30, 2022 | The real scandal behind billionaire Eric Schmidt paying for Biden’s science office | Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has faced a backlash since Politico reported earlier this week that he indirectly funds and wields unusually heavy influence over an important White House office tasked with advising President Joe Biden’s admi... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele says Air Force suffers from underfunding | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
Hawaii U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele wants the Pentagon to beef up its Air Force funding amid simmering tensions with China and Russia. Read more
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| Oct 26, 2021 | How to Dismantle the Surveillance State After the Patriot Act | Today marks 20 years of the so-called “Patriot Act,” a law passed to “deter and punish” suspected terrorists in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many provisions of the law were unconstitutional, many were ineffective. In fact, in 20... |
| May 24, 2021 | RealLIST Connectors 2021: Meet 20 people making sure DC’s tech community sticks together | In a year where we were torn apart from, well, virtually anyone who didn’t live within our immediate household, connections were more important than ever.
Beyond only seeing others via computer screen, it meant no accidental bump-ins or net... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Law Enforcement Officials Confirm Clearview's Facial Recognition Tech Is Mostly Useless | A stash of public records recently obtained by BuzzFeed shows far more law enforcement agencies have experimented with Clearview's facial recognition software than previously acknowledged. The searchable data shows Clearview is still someth... |
| Apr 21, 2021 | Law Enforcement Officials Confirm Clearview's Facial Recognition Tech Is Mostly Useless | A stash of public records recently obtained by BuzzFeed shows far more law enforcement agencies have experimented with Clearview’s facial recognition software than previously acknowledged. The searchable data shows Clearview is still someth... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | After 20 Years, The F-35 Stealth Fighter Is Still Stuck In Testing | An F-35 assigned to the 6th Weapons Squadron takes off for a training mission at Nellis Air Force ... [+] Base on Jan. 12, 2021.U.S. Air Force photo by William R. Lewis |
| Feb 3, 2021 | The US Navy is planning to ‘recycle’ one of its first supercarriers. Here’s what’s next for USS Nimitz. | USS Nimitz. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Aiyana S. Paschal/ Released
The USS Nimitz joined the Navy in May 1973. It was the second nuclear-powered carrier ever built.
But over the next five years, Nimitz will be r... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | Avoiding Another McGahn: Options to Modernize Congress’s Subpoena Compliance Tools | On Aug. 31, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that the House of Representatives had asserted no valid cause of action in seeking judicial enforcement of a congressional subpoena issued to former White House counsel Don Mc... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Facebook, FARA and Foreign Media | “We’re suing Facebook, bitches!” tweeted In the NOW, an online social media company. Facebook, to In the NOW’s chagrin, had labeled the company state-controlled under a new policy, appending “Russian state-controlled media” to the byline of... |
| Aug 7, 2020 | When the treatment is torture: ICE must stop using solitary confinement for Covid-19 quarantine | After months of social distancing, many of us are feeling its effects. Experts have delineated the mental and physical health impacts of isolation caused by the pandemic, and those who have experienced home quarantine have been particularly... |
| Jun 12, 2020 | Did a Government Drone Flight Over a Protest Violate the Fourth Amendment? | On May 28, protestors in Minneapolis demonstrated late into the night against the killing of George Floyd and police brutality. The next day, on Twitter, Jason Paladino of the Project on Government Oversight noticed a Customs and Border Pro... |
| Jun 10, 2020 | The Pentagon’s Proposal to Fill the Swamp | Why is the Pentagon trying to grease the revolving door between the military and the defense industry?
On Feb. 14, the Department of Defense sent a request to Congress to roll back post-service lobbying restrictions for former general and f... |
| May 31, 2020 | Our grimdark meathook cyberpunk now | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| May 11, 2020 | Paycheck Protection Program Loans And Risk Of Government Investigation: Advice From Former Federal Prosecutors | As government investigations of PPP loans begin, many business-owners who received loans are now ... [+] worried about whether they were truly eligible.Getty |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Trump Can’t Play Politics With Aid to States | The national fight against the spread of the novel coronavirus demands a leader who can take charge of and defeat a grave threat, and who can put partisan politics aside to create a shared sense of national purpose. Instead, President Trump... |
| Feb 13, 2020 | Federal Agencies Are Still Abusing Their Favorite, Super-Vague FOIA Exemption Thousands Of Times A Year | The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to result in, you know, the freedom of information. Obviously, not everything the government produces paperwork-wise can end up in the public's hands, but far more should be turned over to the pub... |
| Feb 13, 2020 | Federal Agencies Are Still Abusing Their Favorite, Super-Vague FOIA Exemption Thousands Of Times A Year | The Freedom of Information Act was supposed to result in, you know, the freedom of information. Obviously, not everything the government produces paperwork-wise can end up in the public’s hands, but far more should be turned over to the pub... |
| Dec 10, 2019 | Exposed Data Shows Where Police Departments Fly Their Drones | Dronesense, a company that sells a platform to government, law enforcement, and private clients for flying drones, exposed a database of customer data, in some cases showing exactly where users programmed their drones to fly.
The exposure n... |
| Sep 24, 2019 | How Companies Can Help Make Police Facial Recognition Systems More Transparent | As facial recognition becomes an increasingly common law enforcement tool, the risks it can pose are becoming increasingly clear. Recently, police in Hong Kong are weaponizing the technology to identify protesters, who are using everything ... |
| Jul 24, 2019 | Eisenhower's worst nightmare: Pentagon merger-mania is back | Isaac Brekken/Getty Images
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A looming merger between Raytheon and United Technologies is poised to produce another defense industry giant.
Such mergers are common, but the influence of those firms and the primacy of the Pentagon i... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Transnational Organized Crime and National Security | Traditional organized crime, ranging from the Italian-American mafia to street gangs, has long been a target of American law enforcement efforts. Unlike purely domestic organized crime, transnational organized crime, defined by the Justice ... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Amazon pitched its facial recognition to ICE, released emails show [Updated] | Enlarge
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| Dec 15, 2017 | Amicus CEO lobbied FDA to reverse FDA’s rejection of migalastat, claiming a delay of up to 7 years | Handwritten Note from John Crowley to Scott Gottlieb.
Five days after Scott Gottlieb was sworn in as head of the FDA last May, Amicus $FOLD CEO John Crowley was personally lobbying him to reverse a stinging rejection of mi... |
| Jan 17, 2017 | A new deal with capitalism requires a revolution in politics and markets | Many people feel that the capitalist economic system delivers wealth to a few and somehow cheats the rest of opportunity.
I agree: our market system is being looted by a small minority and the only real solutions call for courageous measure... |
| Dec 16, 2016 | Snowden's 'Proper Channel' For Whistleblowing Being Booted From The NSA For Retaliating Against A Whistleblower | NSA oversight and whistleblowing through proper channels: both pretty much worthless. |
| Dec 1, 2016 | Why fintech founders need a social conscience as they recreate the market | Around the world, the financial sector is resurgent and is concocting new financial instruments and markets in which to trade them.
In Australia the market for some financial securities has quintupled in only a year, encouraged by the Austr... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | What to expect from FDA nominee Robert Califf’s confirmation hearing | Republicans lawmakers rarely give a warm reception to presidential nominees when a Democrat is in the White House. But President Barack Obama likely has little reason to worry about Tuesday’s confirmation hearing for Dr. Robert Califf, his ... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | Tequila, Painted Pearls, and Prada — How the CIA Helped Produce 'Zero Dark Thirty' | On April 21, 2011, Mark Boal called the CIA to tell them he was going to Afghanistan.
The previous year, the screenwriter had been at a dinner when CIA director Leon Panetta asked Boal to alert the agency if he ever traveled to the country.... |
| Mar 25, 2015 | Money for nothing | By Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC
Imagine paying $4,675 for a piece of paper. It would make the days of $436 military hammers look pretty cheap, wouldn’t it?
Now imagine that piece of paper comes with a promise of having to pay more for your ow... |
| Dec 13, 2014 | “Revolving door” spins between AT&T, GSA | Casey Coleman, client executive vice president for AT&T Government Solutions.
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| Oct 20, 2014 | US Air Force Asked Why It Scrapped $390 Million Worth of Transport Planes in Afghanistan | The United States let 16 military transport planes worth $24.3 million apiece sit idle on the tarmac at Kabul International Airport for more than a year before demolishing them and selling the scrap metal to an Afghan construction company f... |
| Jun 10, 2014 | Veterans Administration Inspector General Demands Whistleblower Documents Submitted To Government Watchdog Group | The ongoing investigation on the Veterans Administration’s ineptitude and abuse may soon be able to add exposed whistleblowers to its collateral damage. The VA’s Inspector General has made the unprecedented move to subpoena documents turned... |
| Dec 9, 2011 | Report: Medicare staffers briefed Wall Street honchos on med-tech reimbursement | About 12 senior staff members at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave five Wall Street investors a private, two-hour hearing in 2009 during which the insiders asked about the reimbursement prospects for medical devices they... |
| Supreme Court will resume in-person arguments this fall after switching to phones during Covid | Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments delivered in person in the courtroom starting in October.
The return to in-person proceedings was announced more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the nation’s top attorneys to... |
| The US military is throttling back on the F-35 as other militaries stock up on the stealth fighter | An F-35A at an airshow in Reno, Nevada, September 19, 2021. US Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Nicolas Myers
The Pentagon's 2023 budget request includes a lower-than-expected purchase of F-35 fighter jets.
US military officials say the reduction in or... |
| Clarence Thomas has accepted undisclosed luxury trips from GOP megadonor for decades, report says | Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted secret luxury trips from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow for more than two decades, ProPublica reported.
The trips appear to violate a law requiring disclosure for private jet flights.
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| A top SEC official was receiving a $1.6 million law-firm pension from Simpson Thacher that was 7 times his government salary. It shows why cracking down on 'golden parachutes' is so hard. | William Hinman, a Simpson Thacher partner who led the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance Securities and Exchange Commission This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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