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Meet the largest aircraft on earth

A U.S. Army mega aircraft – a hybrid of plane, helicopter, hovercraft and airship- is going civilian. Designed by British design company Hybrid Air Vehicles for the U.S. military, this massive piece of next-gen tech can travel through the air…

Outgoing lawmakers make plans for life after Congress

FILE: Dec. 3, 2014: Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (REUTERS) The midterm election now a fading blip on 2014’s radar screen, retiring and defeated members of Congress have made their farewell speeches, packed up their…

North Korea blasts US over CIA report on torture in letter to UN

North Korea is demanding that the U.N. Security Council conduct “a thorough probe into the CIA torture crimes,” according to a letter obtained by Fox News. In the letter, addressed to the president of the Security Council on Monday, Ja…

Family of Iranian woman on death row in dark despite report she could be spared

The fate of the Iranian woman sentenced to die for killing a man she says tried to rape her remains unclear despite reports she could be spared, according to her mother, who told FoxNews.com her daughter is now being pressured…

NSA still wants to collect records without probable cause

Except for the definition and mechanism of proving treason, no area of the Constitution addressing the rights of all persons when the government is pursuing them is more specific than the Fourth Amendment. The linchpin of that specificity is the…

Freedom for me, but not for thee — Dianne Feinstein, the CIA and you

Initially, I was gratified to learn that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was unafraid to take on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the issue of domestic spying. The CIA is limited by its…

NSA Oversteps (Again)

Let me be clear, Edward Snowden will never be a hero or a patriot in my eyes. I will not argue that he is traitor, though he is certainly a criminal. And no amount of revelations as to how the…

Politics Of PRISM: White House In Crisis, Obama Doubles Down

Move up http://i.forbesimg.com tMove down Watch Top U.S. Intelligence Officials Repeatedly Deny NSA Spying On Americans Over The Last Year (Videos) Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff The start of President Obama’s second term has been a difficult one. To be sure,…

After Al Qaeda bomb plot leak, someone needs to be held accountable

The White House would like you to please ignore what I’m about to discuss. ;They’d prefer you fawn over President Obama’s evolving position on gay marriage or protest against the one-percent. But don’t pay any attention to that noise about…

Why hunting and gathering makes us smarter and thinner

The great mystery of the human species is how we got here —how we came out of the trees, stood on two feet, and ended up on the trading floor of Lehman Brothers –how we became so smart…and so dumb.…