January 12, 2017 US caught between allies amid pressure to limit NSA The Obama administration is finding itself in a sticky surveillance situation.
January 12, 2017 Did military's gun rules help Navy Yard shooter? As Americans start to digest the full extent of the horror that played out Monday morning at the Washington Navy Yard, the shooting leaves some with a basic question: How was a gunman, for the second time in four years, able to kill so many people at a U.S. military facility?Â
January 12, 2017 White House breach spurs lethal force debate The stunning White House security breach in which an intruder led officers on a chase through the residence earlier this month has raised a basic question from lawmakers and others -- why didn't the officers use lethal force?
January 12, 2017 Agents shocked as cartel boss involved in torture death of DEA colleague slips away Mexican and U.S. authorities are scrambling to find a 60-year-old former drug lord -- who was behind the brutal killing of an American agent nearly two decades ago -- following his recent, and unexpected, release from a Mexican prison.Â
January 12, 2017 'My son might be here': After tragedy, prison guards being allowed to carry pepper spray After a series of attacks on guards, U.S. prisons are now letting many corrections officers carry pepper spray to defend themselves. But the program remains controversial, and some on Capitol Hill are pushing to make it permanent.
January 12, 2017 Shocking violence casts shadow over federal Job Corps program The last minutes of Jose Santos Amaya Guardado’s young life were hell.
January 12, 2017 No carpet rides here: Disney keeps no-fly zone over parks For the past decade, Disney World and Disneyland have benefited from a deal slipped into a 300-page spending bill that designates the air space above both parks as no-fly zones.
January 10, 2017 Pentagon sending sea-based radar to Korean peninsula amid growing nuke threat The Pentagon has dispatched a sea-based X-band radar unit to the Far East in response to recent nuclear threats by North Korea's Communist dictatorship, a U.S. defense official told Ó£ÌÒÊÓÆµ Tuesday.
January 9, 2017 US hits Russia with new sanctions amid hacking feud The outgoing Obama administration on Monday blacklisted five Russians, including a senior law enforcement official close to President Vladimir Putin, as the two nations' feud over U.S. election hacking escalated.
January 8, 2017 Was Friday's declassified report claiming Russian hacking of the 2016 election rigged? I suspect the entire purpose of the Friday report and its timing was to provide President Obama with a supposedly objective intelligence report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that the president could release before he left office to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s election.