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Access to U.S. chemical-site records is spotty
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A law Congress passed more than a quarter-century ago to alert the public to chemical hazards is seen today by some government officials as a potential tip sheet for terrorists. As a result, public access to hazardous-chemical...Tags: U.S. Congress, Judges, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
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FEATURE-'Irrational' hackers are growing U.S. security fear
Reuters* Aging control systems vulnerable to attack-experts * Infrastructure malfunctions loom as hackers probe networks * U.S. power grid target of daily cyber attacks By Jim Finkle May 22 (Reuters) - Cybersecurity researcher HD Moore discovered he could...Tags: Henry A Waxman, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Water Supply, Rockwell Automation Inc., U.S. Senate
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'Irrational' hackers are growing U.S. security fear
Reuters(Reuters) - Cybersecurity researcher HD Moore discovered he could use the Internet to access the controls of some 30 pipeline sensors around the country that were not password protected. A hacking expert who helps companies uncover network...Tags: Gerald Henry, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Water Supply, Rockwell Automation Inc., U.S. Senate
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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, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, Anthrax, Science and Technology
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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: Sexual Assault, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Assault
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Orrin Hatch, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Ted Cruz, Elections, Parties and Movements
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U.S. House panel approves spending cuts, assumes more to come
Reuters* $967 billion spending cap approved, lowest in a decade * Republicans shifting limited funds toward defense, security By David Lawder WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - The Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives made clear on...Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Economy, Business and Finance, Harold Rogers, U.S. Senate
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Family of California woman killed by U.S. Border Patrol files suit
ReutersBy Marty Graham SAN DIEGO, May 21 (Reuters) - The family of a San Diego woman killed in an encounter with the U.S. Border Patrol filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on Tuesday alleging a plainclothes agent used excessive force when he opened fire on...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice, Motorvehicle Accidents, U.S. Border Patrol, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Building evacuated in Aberdeen after Congressional staffers find suspicious envelopes
Three envelopes without return addresses were sent to Aberdeen offices of South Dakota's congressional delegation, causing emergency officials to block off streets and a hazardous materials team to investigate Friday. About 20 people were evacuated...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Tea Party Movement, Disasters and Accidents, Politics
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- 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 called a...Tags: U.S. Congress, National Government, U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, National Institutes of Health
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AP CEO calls government seizure of phone records 'unconstitutional,' says chill already felt
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed...Tags: National Government, U.S. House of Representatives, John Cornyn, Corporate Officers, U.S. Department of Justice
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AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal...
Tags: National Government, Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives, John Cornyn, Corporate Officers
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