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Countdown to 1st GOP Debate

President Obama unveiling strict new controls on pollution today. The rules and regulations are designed to drastically cut the amount of greenhouse gasses being released into the atmosphere. Many corporations and states are poised to file lawsuits to challenge the…

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…

Ban names U.N. sex abuse scandal panel

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives on the eve of the Geneva Consultations on Yemen at the European headquarters of the United Nations, UN, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, June 14, 2015. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP) A former Canadian Supreme Court…

There is no nationwide crime wave (and police killings are not up)

Since 1991, murder and violent crime have plummeted in the U. S. But in a widely discussed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled “The New Nationwide Crime Wave,” Heather Mac Donald recently made a startling claim: “Gun violence in…

BodyWorn, the police-worn camera that aims to reduce crime

(BodyWorn) Should local police wear and use a body camera at all times? That’s the debate many police departments are having after riots broke out in Baltimore in April. Last year, unrest in Ferguson led to continuing racial tensions. Yet,…

A walk to remember: Raising awareness about pancreatic cancer

From left to right: Kerri Kaplan, executive director & CEO of The Lustgarten Foundation, Alicia Rivera, Laura Ingle Kramme, Kenny Kramme, Jackson Kramme and Nick Sabino at The Lustgarten Foundation’s New York City Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk at Pier 84…

Baltimore riots and the price of protest

April 29, 2015: Members of the National Guard stand outside City Hall in Baltimore. Schools reopened across the city and tensions seemed to ease Wednesday after Baltimore made it through the first night of its curfew without the widespread violence…

House panel threatens to cut defense secretary budget over Bergdahl stonewalling

April 16, 2015: Defense Secretary Ash Carter, right, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon. (AP) The head of a powerful House panel is threatening to withhold defense funding over the…