The Federal Bureau of Investigation has used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, at least ten times in the United States, a letter from the agency to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul revealed this week.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is now ripping libertarians, including Sen. Rand Paul, for challenging government surveillance programs and suggesting they don’t understand the dangers of terrorism.
Moscow says its security agency FSB is in talks with the FBI over Snowden but will not extradite Snowden to the US. A Russian spokesman added that he’s sure the fugitive NSA contractor will stop harming Washington if granted asylum in Russia.
Less than two months after the debut of the first almost entirely 3D-printed handgun, a Canadian gunsmith has created the first 3D printed rifle.
The recovery is now officially in its fifth year. Sure, the stock market is back. And housing is getting off the floor. But for middle class Americans, there are little signs of hope.
As violence and political turmoil tear through a war-wrecked Iraq, military experts are warning Congress that Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist cells are regrouping and working together not only in Iraq but in the entire region to undo a decade of US-sponsored stability.
After 7 women have accused him of sexual harassment, San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is once again brushing off new calls to resign, saying at a hastily arranged news conference that he has decided instead to enter what he described as a behavioral counseling clinic for two weeks of “intensive therapy.”
The pictures are supposedly convincing evidence for global warming — a camera at the North Pole Environmental Observatory, sitting in the middle of what appears to be either a lake or open ocean, at the height of the summer sea ice melt season.
The prison population in the United States dropped in 2012 for the third consecutive year, according to federal statistics released on Thursday, in what criminal justice experts said was the biggest decline in the nation’s recent history, signaling a shift away from an almost four-decade policy of mass imprisonment.
Authorities in eastern Turkey have cleared a small bird detained on suspicions of spying for Israel. Seriously.