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UN benefit boost to outgoing ethics watchdog questioned in light of sex abuse scandal

On April 14, 2015, Joan Dubinsky, the top ethics officer of the United Nations, got a small but important extension of her final two-year employment contract with the world organization. It could be worth about $1,000 a month for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Entire US national security system possibly compromised by year-long cyber-assault

July 21, 2015: Acting OPM director Beth Cobert is shown. (Government Executive Media Group) The prolonged hacking into the White House Office of Personnel Management, which put the personal information of at least some 21.5 million past and current federal…

Hackers stole Social Security numbers from 21.5 million, gov’t admits

Hackers swiped Social Security numbers from 21.5 million people — as well as fingerprint records and other information from background check investigations — in the massive breach earlier this year of federal personnel files, the government acknowledged Thursday. The Office…

Another day, another Clinton black eye

Another day, another Clinton black eye — or two. Both continue the plotlines that threaten Hillary’s Oval Office dreams. First comes more evidence of the family’s sheer greed. The Washington Post reports that the University of Missouri at Kansas City…

Drone swarms join the Navy

Screenshot from the Office of Naval Research YouTube video. Just like how locust swarms can cause devastating natural disasters, the U.S. Navy’s Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) drones could devastate adversaries. A fitting acronym, the Navy’s LOCUST is a new…

Sex and UN peacekeepers: Tens of thousands of Liberian women involved?

United Nations Building New York EXCLUSIVE: A study cited in a just-published evaluation of the ugly problem of sexual exploitation by U.N. peacekeepers calculates that as many as 58,000 women in Monrovia, Liberia, alone engaged in prohibited “transactional” sex with…

China’s hack attack: Will US ever learn?

Upon hearing of the massive data breach of employee information from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — allegedly by hackers working for the Chinese government — Kay Cole James, the former director of OPM under George W. Bush, told…

Calling America ‘Land of Opportunity’ offensive, University of California warns professors

Phrases such as “America is the land of opportunity” and “America is a melting pot” are “micro-aggressions” that could leave some students feeling discriminated against, according to a new faculty training guide put out by the University of California that…

Truth Serum: Congress flying first class

This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” May 27, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! O’REILLY: “Truth Serum Segment”…