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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Two Border Patrol agents walked by a patch of brush on a remote ranch and saw nothing. But 19,000 feet overhead in the night sky, a Predator unmanned aircraft kept its heat-sensing eye on the spot.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, long known for settling enforcement actions without having to prove its case in court, is struggling to cope with a a surge in the number of executives and companies willing to go to trial to defend themselves.
Lt. John Ryan's selection follows this week's announcement that three senior officers are being asked to retire after failing to discipline a subordinate commander believed to have sent himself a copy of a promotions exam
Internal affairs commander is accused of taking cell phone pictures of an upcoming police sergeants' exam last June
The Capitol Police Department is facing a discrimination lawsuit after it dismissed one of its officers due to his affiliation with an allegedly racially charged Read more...
The agency is also investigating why the captain's superiors took no action once they learned of the June 2011 incident
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! There have been a number of high-profile cyberattacks on multinationals in the last few years, including Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop-Grumman (NOC), Sony (SNE), Google (GOOG) to Visa (V) and Mastercard (MA), among others. (See: Cyberattacks: A National Security Threat Largely Being Ignored) A new, first of its kind report [...]
In this week’s Q&A, I chat with Jeffrey Carr, the founder and CEO of Taia Global, and the author of ‘Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld’, on the current state of the cyber-warfare threat.
Ed Gillespie served as President George W. Bush's right-hand man and now is a top political adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. R. Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw led Mr. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. Now they are Mr. Romney's economic brain trusts. The same can be said ...
History hangs more heavily than the damask on the walls of the opulent Music Room in the Turkish ambassador’s residence. It was in that room during the swing era that brothers Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun — the then-ambassador’s sons — hosted performances by the prewar jazz greats , a precursor to their founding of Atlantic Records. Tuesday night the room, full of business-suited bureaucrats ...
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Michele Bachmann lives in Stillwater, hails from Iowa and works in Washington, D.C. — and as of March is a citizen of the country of Switzerland. Bachmann’s spokeswoman confirmed that the third-term Republican and some of her family had became citizens of Switzerland. Politico was the first American news outlet to report the news. Bachmann’s three youngest children are also ...
ARLINGTON, Va. | General Dynamics C4 Systems announced today that James Norton is now vice president of business development at the company's new Washington, D.C., location. General Dynamics C4...
The arrests of U.S. Transportation Security Administration employees on charges of accepting bribes from drug-smugglers is escalating calls from Republicans to overhaul an agency under fire for patting down young children and senior citizens.
DALLAS — Millions of dollars worth of security equipment meant for airports across the country was instead shelved in a Grapevine warehouse, according to a Congressional investigation. The scathing report outlining “systemic flaws [that] continue to plague the TSA” will be presented Wednesday at a joint Congressional committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Among the hundreds of pieces of security ...
With a raft of cybersecurity proposals under consideration in Congress, the U.S. business community is making increasingly clear that it opposes new regulations that would require private companies to adhere to minimum performance standards or report all cyber intrusions they experience to the government.