Source: Jake Miller / CBS News FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged that the bureau uses unmanned drones for surveillance on U.S. soil during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, adding that such drone use is done in a “very, very minimal way, and very seldom.” Law enforcement sources tell CBS News’ Bob Orr that [...]
Source: Matt Wilstein / Mediaite A New Hampshire gun control rally turned violent last night, but thankfully the only weapon dispensed was a policeman’s Taser. It all started when 52-year-old Daniel Musso began heckling one of the speakers at the event, John Cantin, who became a gun-safety advocate after he was shot and his daughter was murdered in 2009. Musso [...]
Source: Braden Goyette /The Huffington Post Journalist Michael Hastings died in a car crash in Los Angeles early Tuesday at the age of 33, according to a statement from his employer, BuzzFeed. Hastings, who was also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was perhaps best known for his candid Rolling Stone interview with General Stanley McChrystal, then the commander [...]
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy After the NTSB ruled that an electrical short caused TWA Flight 800 to crash in Long Island in 1996, killing all its passengers, six members of the investigative teams are coming forward in a new documentary to say there was evidence that explosions [...]
Source: Catalina Camia / USA Today Former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. has no money to pay a $750,000 fine and wants to serve his prison time first if he and his wife both go to jail, according to court documents. Jackson, a one-time rising Democratic Party star from Illinois, admitted last year to using $750,000 [...]
Source: Doug Farrar / Yahoo! News Per multiple reports, Wanetta Gibson, the woman who falsely accused linebacker Brian Banks of rape when they were both students at Long Beach (Calif.) Polytechnic High School, has been ordered to repay $2.6 million in damages related to the $1.5 million she received from the Long Beach School District in a 2007 [...]
Source: Kevin Johnson / USA Today WASHINGTON—National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a House committee Tuesday that 50 terror threats in 20 countries have been disrupted with the assistance of two secret surveillance programs that were recently disclosed by former defense contractor Edward Snowden. At least 10 of the plots targeted the U.S. homeland, [...]
Source: AP / CBS News WASHINGTON – Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in elite special operations forces. Details of the [...]
Source: Stephanie Condon / CBS News Edward Snowden, the former government contractor who leaked information about the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance programs, said Monday that the U.S. government “immediately and predictably” destroyed any chance that he’d receive a fair trial by declaring him guilty of treason. “The US Government, just as they did with [...]
Source: Syndey Lupkin / ABC News Sarah Murnaghan, the 10-year-old girl whose family successfully sued to make her more likely to get a pair of adult lungs, may have gotten a boost from public attention before her lung transplant last week, but now that it’s over, some of that attention has turned negative. On Friday, June [...]
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