Opinion: Why Hollywood security is better than Pentagon’s
It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster: A group of insurgents hack into American military drones, using software they got off the Internet, according to The Wall Street Journal. But, for the benefit of that screenwriter likely pounding away right now to get his idea in first — as well as for the general public — what actually happened?
The murderer of a 16-year-old girl was denied a hearing before the Supreme Court on Monday, after a letter bragging about his crimes got him a cell on Virginia’s death row.
The U.S. Senate on Sunday approved $447 billion in spending for several Cabinet departments and other agencies for the 2010 budget year — money needed to fund the federal government after this week.
Two sheriff’s deputies were shot Monday night in the same Washington state county where four officers were killed last month, authorities said.
A temporary protected status for Haitian nationals who were in the United States as of Tuesday has been designated by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, she announced Friday.
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More than 20,000 pounds of beef have been recalled by a California company amid worries the meat is linked to two cases of salmonella, a federal food safety agency said.
It’s going to be a rough weekend for travelers in the mid-Atlantic. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled in advance of the winter storm expected to wallop the region, and heavy snow and white-out conditions predicted for some areas will make roads dangerous.
Law enforcement officials in Seattle, Washington, vowed Sunday to catch whoever is responsible for fatally shooting a police officer and wounding a student officer as they sat in a parked patrol car.
President Obama huddled with a bipartisan delegation of congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to debate new initiatives designed to spark stronger job growth.
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