By Ashleigh Schmitz When asked to empty their pockets at airport security, travelers are quick to oblige placing wallets, cell phones, and spare change in the baskets. In a rush to collect belongings and quickly head to gates for departure, stray coins can be an afterthought for some passengers. Last year, those afterthoughts totaled $531,395–a substantial increase from the two years prior. In 2011 the TSA collected $488,000, which is up from $409,000 in 2010.
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The US Army has successfully used a vehicle-mounted laser to shoot down numerous mortar rounds and drone aircraft for the first time. Taking place over the course of several weeks, the test involved destroying more than 90 incoming mortar rounds and multiple drones.
The US Senate Intelligence Committee is writing up a report highly critical of the CIA’s past use of torture on detainees, including “waterboarding,” even as the Obama administration has ramped up the use of deadly drone strikes. One of President Barack Obama’s campaign promises was to put an end to torture, euphemistically described as “enhanced interrogation techniques”
By Jack Phillips A photo being circulated around Twitter and Facebook showing the Sphinx covered in snow is not real. The photo was taken in Japan’s Tobu World Square, where a smaller Sphinx replica is located. This week, Egypt was hit by a rare snowstorm, but the Sphinx apparently wasn’t hit. Cairo experienced its first snowstorm in years.
Notwithstanding concerns regarding abuse of power, inefficient oversight and gross mismanagement inside the United States National Security Agency, the White House said Friday that the next head of the NSA will also man the helm of the US Cyber Command. Currently the top roles within both groups are performed by Gen. Keith Alexander, a four-star general appointed by then-President George W. Bush to run the NSA in 2005 and then picked to lead the newly-created Cybercom by President Barack Obama four years later.
Snow coated domes and minarets Friday as a record Middle East storm compounded the suffering of Syrian refugees, sent the Israeli army scrambling to dig out stranded motorists and gave Egyptians a rare glimpse of snow in their capital. Nearly three feet of snow closed roads in and out of Jerusalem, which is set in high hills, and thousands in and around the city were left without power.
By Michaelangelo Conte On Tuesday a professional safe company will “crack” two safes found in Jersey City City Hall that have not been opened in more than 40 years, unveiling the mystery of what’s inside. “We discovered the two locked safes inside of a vault in the mayor’s office,” said Mayor Steven Fulop of the safes, which are believed to have been installed during the administration of Mayor Frank Hague.
By Michael Bastasch If you think the Earth is hot now, try wearing plate armor in the Middle Ages. A Swedish study found that the planet was warmer in ancient Roman times and the Middle Ages than today, challenging the mainstream idea that man-made greenhouse gas emissions are the main drivers of global warming.
Al-Qaeda linked Islamists have kidnapped at least 120 Kurdish civilians from a village in Aleppo province near the border with Turkey, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing its sources.
By Henry Austin The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s birth certificate has died in a plane crash, Hawaiian officials said Thursday. Loretta Fuddy died after the Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft she was travelling on went down shortly after leaving Kalaupapa Airport at around 3:15 p.m. local time (10:15 a.m. ET) on Wednesday.
By Brian Patrick Eha Wall Street is getting ready to dive into Bitcoin, pouring vast amounts of institutional and investor money into the digital currency that has been labeled a “bubble” by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and which not long ago was seen as the sole preserve of crypto-geeks, monetary-theory wonks and anti-government types. So says Barry Silbert, founder and chief executive of SecondMarket, the online platform that allows its users to trade private company stocks.
The state Department of Transportation and contractors building a highway tunnel under downtown Seattle are trying to find out what has blocked their tunnel-boring machine. The machine called Bertha ran into something Friday and was shut down Saturday about 1,000 feet into the 1.7 mile project and 60 feet below South Jackson Street and South Main Street.
By: John Hayward There’s nothing funnier than watching an ObamaCare apologist describe it as a “law,” usually in a tone of high dudgeon that any treasonous saboteurs would even dare think of repealing it. It should be obvious to even the dimmest left-wing partisan by now that ObamaCare is not a “law,” but of course that doesn’t bother them, because they don’t think their beloved all-wise all-knowing super-government should be bound by laws.
The disgraced uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un – Jang Song-thaek – has been executed, the country’s state media reports. This comes after the second most powerful man in North Korea was dismissed for committing “criminal acts.”
By Paul Rincon China says it has successfully landed a craft carrying a robotic rover on the surface of the Moon, a major step in its programme of space exploration. On Saturday afternoon (GMT), a landing module underwent a powered descent, using thrusters to perform the first soft landing on the Moon in 37 years.
By Adam Kredo Iranian negotiators abruptly ended nuclear talks with Western powers in Vienna on Friday just a day after the Obama administration announced tighter sanctions on Tehran. Iran had threatened that new or tighter sanctions would nullify the recently reached Geneva interim deal, which is not yet in effect.
Fifteen people who had been heading to a wedding in Yemen have been killed in an air strike. Local media reported that a drone attack had been responsible, and the party-goers had been hit instead of an Al-Qaeda convoy. “An air strike missed its target and hit a wedding car convoy, ten people were killed immediately