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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: Stranger Than Fiction, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Science and Technology, Bioterrorism, Anthrax
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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: Politics, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Government, Justice System, Local Government
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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: Celebrities, General Electric Company, Rockwell Automation Inc., Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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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: Celebrities, General Electric Company, Petroleum Industry, Rockwell Automation Inc., Gerald Henry
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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: Prisons, Ricardo Lara, Sexual Assault, Immigration, Justice System
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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: Politics, Orrin Hatch, Justice System, Mike Lee, Republican Party
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Despite tight budgets, aid expected to easily flow to Oklahoma victims
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The Oklahoma City area is already home to two of the costliest tornados in the last half a century, and Monday's devastating twister that hit just south of the city is likely to stress federal emergency dollars already under pressure from the...Tags: Barack Obama, FEMA, Washington, DC, Joplin Tornado (2011), Janet Napolitano
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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: Politics, Finance, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, Budget Control Act of 2011
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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: Justice System, Transportation Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Motorvehicle Accidents
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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: Politics, Barack Obama, Corporate Officers, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), The Associated Press
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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: Politics, John Cornyn, Barack Obama, NBC (tv network), Corporate Officers
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What's next for UNLV graduates? You might be surprised
Las Vegas SunAs bright sunny skies beamed down on them, hundreds of UNLV's graduates lingered near the entryway of the Thomas & Mack Center around noon Sunday. UNLV officials said there were nearly 3,000 undergraduate and professional students who were eligible to...Tags: Politics, Online Media Industry, Waste, MGM Resorts International, HIV
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