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Arizona sheriff illegally used racial profiling, judge rules
TUCSON — A federal judge has ruled that the immigration enforcement policies of the man who calls himself "America's toughest sheriff" violated the Constitution by using racial profiling. For years, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has ordered...
Tags: Minority Groups, American Civil Liberties Union, Immigration, Racism, Laws
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Bioterrorism consultant's anthrax claims challenged
WASHINGTON — As an example of the ease with which terrorists could produce anthrax, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig has repeatedly cited the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult gained infamy in 1995 by unleashing the nerve agent sarin in...
Tags: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Stranger Than Fiction, Terrorism, University of Maryland, College Park, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Sexual assault in jails
A new government report singles out Los Angeles County's Twin Towers as having one of the worst rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual assault of any men's jail in the nation. One in 20 inmates held there reported that he had been victimized by another inmate...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, Laws
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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter
For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...
Tags: Today (tv program), Interior Policy, Television Industry, Gaming, Media Industry
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, White House, Human Genome Sciences Inc., Anthrax
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Report warned Boston Marathon was vulnerable to terrorism
WASHINGTON — Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that homegrown extremists could use "small-scale...
Tags: Laws, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism, Bombings
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Intelligence report identified vulnerability before Boston bombing
This post has been updated, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line of the race as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that extremists may use "small scale...Tags: Joe Lieberman, Times Square, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Crime, Law and Justice
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Republicans demand changes in Senate immigration bill
WASHINGTON — As a sweeping immigration bill moves forward in the Senate, Republicans are demanding stronger border security measures than those agreed upon during four months of bipartisan negotiation. The process of toughening the bill could...
Tags: Interior Policy, John Cornyn, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Marco Rubio, Republican Party
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Houston airport shooting hot topic at NRA convention
HOUSTON -- When the annual National Rifle Assn. convention opened Friday, the day after an incident in which a gunman died at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, attendees didn't shy away from discussing the incident. In fact, it was a hot topic of...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Politics, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control
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Terror database too vague to flag Boston suspect
WASHINGTON — When a Russian intelligence service told the CIA that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become an Islamic radical looking to join underground groups, the agency put his name in the government's catch-all database for terrorism suspects. The...
Tags: Laws, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Sports
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Houston airport gunman left note citing 'monster within me'
Just before pulling the pistol he would use to shoot himself at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Carnell Moore apparently tried to keep bystanders out of harm’s way, authorities said. In a suicide note quoted by authorities Friday,...
Tags: George W. Bush, Suicide
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Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors
Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...
Tags: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Pakistan, Water Pollution
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Photos
Department of Homeland Security police officers stand w...
(May 1, 2013)
This image from a Federal Bureau of Investigation and D...
(April 16, 2013)
In this undated photo, immigrants walk to hearings at t...
(March 24, 2013)
