Edward Snowden downloaded 1.7 million intelligence files from US agencies, the most secrets ever to be stolen from the US government in a single instance in the nation’s history, according to lawmakers who have viewed a classified Pentagon report. Legislators who saw the secret report claimed that many of the documents taken by Snowden regarding military options could put personnel at risk, although they did not delve into specifics.
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Modern automobiles are logging tremendous amounts of information every single second they’re being put to use, and a senior executive at the Ford Motor Company says car manufacturers have access to every last piece of it. At the CES electronic trade show in Las Vegas this week
West Virginia governor Earl Ray Tomblin announced a state of emergency in nine counties on Thursday, following a chemical spill into the Elk River, prompting a water ban that is reported to impact 100,000 customers. Local residents are urged not to drink, bathe, or cook with the water from their taps. Water use has only been permitted for flushing or fire emergencies.
A woman and three children who claimed to be possessed by demons. A 9-year-old boy walking backward up a wall in the presence of a family case manager and hospital nurse. Gary police Capt. Charles Austin said it was the strangest story he had ever heard. Austin, a 36-year veteran of the Gary Police Department, said he initially thought Indianapolis resident Latoya Ammons and her family concocted an elaborate tale as a way to make money. But after several visits to their home and interviews with witnesses, Austin said simply, “I am a believer.”
US military satellites could be disabled or destroyed in the event of a war in space, an American general has said, citing China’s tests of anti-satellite weapons. To protect US space capability, the satellite park should be reformed, he believes. American satellites are defenseless against a possible attack in space, and their destruction “would create a huge hole” in the country’s capability for high-tech warfare
The United States Navy mistakenly sent NBC journalist Scott MacFarlane a strategy memo outlining methods to deny information he had requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and to deter him making further such requests.
US automakers are using the navigation systems installed in millions’ of drivers cars to track their whereabouts and the duration they stay in one place, and there’s no way for an individual to erase this data, a new government investigation has found.
The US government’s use of traffic checkpoints to gather drunk and drugged driving information from motorists has come under fire recently, so much so that some police agencies are withdrawing their participation. These checkpoints, established by a subcontractor for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, are co-manned by off-duty, uniformed officers and intended to ask people about their driving habits.
The Insane Clown Posse (ICP), a Detroit rap duo which enjoys a large and obsessive fan base, has launched a federal lawsuit against the US Justice Department and the FBI in retaliation for classifying their fans as members of a criminal gang. Four fans of the band, which is famous for their flamboyant clown makeup emulated by their followers, known as “Juggalos,”
A group of former National Security Agency insiders who went on to become whistleblowers have written a letter to President Barack Obama, requesting a meeting with him to offer “a fuller picture” of the spy agency’s systemic problems. The group of four intelligence specialists – William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis and Kirk Wiebe – who worked at the NSA for “a total of 144 years
Over 100 retirees, most of them former New York City Police Department employees, were charged Tuesday with defrauding a federal disability program of tens of millions of dollars in a wide-ranging swindle that officials say implicates hundreds more. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said an indictment was filed Tuesday against 106 defendants
Reporters seeking information on US drone safety and crash data were told by Defense Department officials that multiple searches have turned up nothing, indicating the Pentagon is either refusing to turn over records or it has failed to collect them. The Defense Department (DoD) provided a report to Congress in January that promised to address the challenges faced by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
The state of Colorado has survived its first week with legal weed, and the verdict is in: people really like marijuana. Owners of the 37 just-launched dispensaries across Colorado tell the Huffington Post that they’ve already generated a combined total of roughly $5 million in sales since it became legal there on January 1 for adults to purchase and use marijuana for recreational reasons.
Authorities say they found nearly 50 bombs and four guns inside the vehicle of a man stopped for speeding in central Ohio. Police say 43-year-old Andrew Scott Boguslawski was arrested late New Year’s Day on Interstate 70 west of Columbus. He faces a court hearing Friday in Madison County.
The largest Dutch pension fund company, PGGM, has reportedly chosen to withdraw all its investments from the five largest Israeli banks, whose branches are involved in financing construction in the settlements in the West Bank.
The impending release of a new book on Fox News executive Roger Ailes brings allegations that the media executive asked for sex from an employee in exchange for a raise, among other things. The upcoming book, titled “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” is written by New York magazine writer Gabe Sherman and presents a critical look at Ailes, who is described as a powerful figure with an explosive temper.
Biotech titan Monsanto saw its shares surge by more than 2 percent on Wednesday morning after announcing better-than-expected first quarter earnings earlier that day. The company said that for the quarter ending November 30, 2013 it earned $368 million, or 69 cents per share. One year earlier, the company earned only $339 million during that period, the Associated Press reported.
More than 130 used cars from Japan were denied access to Russia last year as consumer watchdog agency Rospotrebnadzor remains concerned about the contaminated water leaks at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Strict control of all cargo, arriving from Japan, will continue in 2014 as well, Rospotrebnadzor said on its website.