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Super PAC forms to fight defense cuts
SAN DIEGO -- A political action committee was started Tuesday in San Diego to fight proposed defense budget cuts. Organizers of the Fight 4 America super PAC unveiled three television commercials that focus on what they believe is deficient defense...
Tags: National Defense Authorization Act, Armed Forces, Dmitry Medvedev, Republican Party, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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G8 leaders tout economic growth, fiscal responsibility
President Barack Obama and fellow leaders at the Group of Eight meeting he hosted Saturday put job creation and economic growth at the top of their to-do list. "(They) must be our top priority. A stable growing European economy is in everybody's best...
Tags: NATO, Chicago Mayor, Kofi Annan, International Organizations, Politics
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Federal judge blocks National Defense Authorization Act provision
In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest...
Tags: Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Trials, Lawyers, Laws, National Defense Authorization Act
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Homeland Security official: Airport employees are potential terror risks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday. There has never been...
Tags: Bennie G Thompson, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Politics, Interior Policy, Justice System
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Newark airport security? Worker used fake ID for years, police say
NEW YORK -- Twenty years ago, a man named Jerry Thomas died in New York City -- murdered in Queens in a case that was never solved. Not long afterward, a man named Jerry Thomas began working at Newark's international airport. The second Jerry Thomas...
Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Transportation Security Administration, New York City, Illegal Immigrants, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Newark airport security worker pleads not guilty to ID theft
NEW YORK -- A longtime Newark Liberty International Airport security worker pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of stealing the identity of a man slain 20 years ago to conceal his illegal immigration status -- a case that has embarrassed an airport...
Tags: Trials, Rutgers University, Frank Lautenberg, Health and Safety at School, New York City
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Balancing cybersecurity and privacy
From the assembly lines of Detroit to the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the oil fields of Houston, our country has been built by an entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation. And despite our recent economic challenges, that spirit is alive and well....
Tags: FBI, Science and Technology, Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Preventative Medicine
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Dead Dog Among Security Breaches at Newark Airport
pix11.com | @murphypixA Department of Homeland Security report released Monday revealed TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, was not funneling enough information about security breaches at Newark Airport and five, other facilities to a national operations center....Tags: Frank Lautenberg, FBI, Rutgers University, Long Island, Transportation Security Administration
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Biden: National security would "not be as strong" under Romney
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday morning that American national security wouldn’t be as strong if Republican Mitt Romney were president, based on his recent assertion that Russia is the country’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”...
Tags: Pakistan, Joe Biden, John McCain, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Politics
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Official: Attempt to blow up U.S.-bound plane thwarted
[Updated at 6:09 p.m. ET] A U.S. official told CNN the plot was disrupted "well before it was ever a threat to the United States.” The official added that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was the group responsible for the plot. "We believe AQAP...Tags: FBI, Explosions, Politics, Justice System, Bombings
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U.S. thinks underwear bomb was built by Al Qaeda in Yemen
World NowThe FBI is analyzing a sophisticated underwear bomb that U.S. officials believe was built by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen in an effort to target Western aviation.... -
FBI analyzing new explosive from Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON — The FBI is analyzing a sophisticated explosive device, similar to the underwear bomb used in an attempt to blow up a passenger jet over Detroit in 2009, that U.S. officials believe was built by Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen in an effort...Tags: FBI, Explosions, Saudi Arabia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Osama bin Laden
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