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BioWatch faces congressional hearing this week
WASHINGTON — A decade ago, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge oversaw the start of BioWatch, the nationwide system designed to detect airborne releases of anthrax or other biological weapons. In his 2003 State of the Union address,...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Janet Napolitano, U.S. Army, Biological and Chemical Weapons, George W. Bush
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Edward Snowden shows evolution of smuggling secrets
WHITMORE VILLAGE, Hawaii — Sure, Edward Snowden just used a simple thumb drive to smuggle classified information out of the National Security Agency. But one look at the sprawling NSA compound where he is believed to have worked in the mountains...
Tags: Government, Arts and Culture, Missile Systems, Photography Supplies and Services, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A year after Obama grants young immigrants a respite from deportation, the debate continues
Last June, the Obama administration unveiled a special program that grants some young undocumented immigrants protection from deportation. A year later, that program remains in place and so does the controversey surrounding it. Under the program,...
Tags: DREAM Act, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Deportation, Crime, Law and Justice
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Child porn allegedly found in home of ex-Santa Ana teacher
A search of a former Santa Ana teacher’s home in Orange County turned up a large cache of child pornography and charges that the man molested one of his relatives, authorities said Thursday. Robert Ruben Ornelas, 62, is charged with two counts...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Pornography, Sex Crimes, Prosecution, Abusive Behavior
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Officials: NSA data-gathering thwarted terrorist plots
WASHINGTON — Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries....Tags: Education, Al-Qaeda, U.S. Congress, National Security Agency
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NSA leak and armored-truck robbery: the odd Florida connection
A federal judge in Florida said this week that she would review the constitutionality of the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone data after a man accused of masterminding an armed-truck robbery asked for his NSA phone data in hopes...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Government, Ariel Castro, Defendants, Prosecution
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U.S. probe of Central Basin linked to Calderon brother, sources say
A subpoena from federal prosecutors has been served at the Central Basin Municipal Water District, which has come under scrutiny amid an FBI probe of state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon (D-Montebello). Law enforcement sources confirmed issuing the subpoena,...Tags: Lawyers, Gil Cedillo, Justice System, Prosecution, Business Enterprises
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Emmys 2013: Kevin Bacon talks flawed characters, TV violence
Kevin Bacon's character on the crime drama "The Following," former FBI agent Ryan Hardy, doesn't have it easy. Season 1 found him matching wits with an old nemesis — the serial killer who left him with a nasty scar and a pacemaker — while...
Tags: Mindy Kaling, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Williamson, Primetime Emmy Awards, Jon Cryer
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FBI director defends secret surveillance programs
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert Mueller III strongly defended the government’s secret collection of millions of phone logs and emails Thursday, saying federal judges, Congress and the Department of Justice inspector general’s office...
Tags: Police Investigations, Judges, Robert Mueller, John Conyers, Jr., Edward Snowden
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Reputed mobster Whitey Bulger chuckles at bookie's testimony
BOSTON — When it came to business, James “Whitey” Bulger had one basic rule, according to two bookmakers who testified at his racketeering trial Friday: You paid him or you risked getting hurt, or worse. The bookies described being...
Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Punishment, Prosecution, Organized Crime
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Subpoena seeks water agency records involving Sen. Calderon's brother
A subpoena from federal prosecutors has been served at the Central Basin Municipal Water District, which has come under scrutiny amid an FBI probe of state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon (D-Montebello). Law enforcement sources confirmed issuing the subpoena,...Tags: Police Investigations, Gil Cedillo, Lawyers, Justice System, Prosecution
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Facebook releases information on NSA requests for user data
SAN FRANCISCO -- Looking to shield itself from a growing public backlash over damaging revelations that it turned over user data to the National Security Agency's clandestine Internet surveillance program Prism, Facebook said late Friday it had reached an...
Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Father's Day, National Government, Robert Mueller
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