The CIA Hemorrhages Spies To Top Wall Street Firms
The Central Intelligence Agency is suffering major attrition among officers working closely with the nation's elite financial institutions, reports Jeff Stein for Newsweek.The National Resources...
View ArticleHere Are The First 4 Women In History To Complete Marine Infantry Training
Every Marine knows Opha Mae Johnson, the first woman who ever enlisted in the Marine Corps.Now almost 100 years later, the first four females in history have completed the grueling 59-day infantry...
View ArticleLive Grenade Found At Oregon Thrift Shop
Live grenade found at Roseburg Salvation Army store; bomb squad calledROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The Salvation Army says an employee at the Roseburg store who was sorting donations found a live grenade at...
View ArticleThe Homeless Veteran Who Was Transformed In A Viral Makeover Video Has Been...
The homeless U.S. Army veteran who was shown getting a makeover in an incredible timelapse video earlier this month has been arrested, MLive reports.James Allen Wolf, 54, was arrested Nov. 17 at a...
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg: This Is The Most 'Gratifying' Thing I've Ever Done
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg took the stage Wednesday night to discuss the influence she's had on gender inequality by writing her book "Lean In."She was talking with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff at...
View ArticleRepublican Governor Denies Benefits To All Soldiers To Discriminate Against...
When Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin was sworn into office, she promised in her oath to “offend the Constitution of the United States.” Many at the time assumed it was a blunder. But as it turns out, Gov....
View ArticleThe Army Is Rounding Up All Of Its Sex Offenders
The Secretary of the Army John McHugh has issued an order to immediately discharge convicted sex offenders from service, reports the Army Times.“Purging convicted sex offenders from the ranks is just...
View ArticleAmerica May Have Opened The Pandora’s Box Of Cyberwarfare
"If we were in such danger with SCADA, should we have thrown the first SCADA punch?" Jay Healey, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at Atlantic Council, posed to a packed house at the Defense...
View ArticleInside The Spy Plane That Was At The Center Of Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis
At the time of the Cold War, Russia had nothing that could shoot the U2 out of the sky. Even their MiG jets had a ceiling 10,000 feet below the U2's gliding altitude.One pilot said they'd buzz around...
View ArticleMercenary King Erik Prince Blames Everyone But Himself For Blackwater's Demise
Blackwater founder Erik Prince gives his loudest rebuke yet of a government he says threw him under the bus in a new book, "Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Unveils Its First Strategy For The Arctic
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday the United States will assert its sovereignty in the rapidly thawing Arctic but called on countries to work together to avoid conflict over the untapped...
View ArticleEXPERT: Internet For Our Kids To Be 'Fundamentally Less Awesome'
The Internet has become an increasingly dangerous place and this may only be the beginning, asserts Jay Healey, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at Atlantic Council."I am gravely doubtful...
View ArticleDealers Caught Allegedly Selling 90 Ecstasy Tabs Along With 2.2 Pounds Of...
South African officials seized 2.2 pounds of uranium and 90 ecstasy tablets from two men allegedly trying to sell the items in the city of Durban, reports AFP.Uranium serves as a crucial component in...
View ArticleThe Spoils Of War: Sheriffs, Police Nationwide Getting Armored Vehicles Left...
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) — Coming soon to your local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to roadside bombs...
View ArticleThis Historic Exchange Kicked Off America's Entrance Into The Nuclear Arms Race
Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd knew he had to warn the Belgians.It was 1939, the year after the discovery of nuclear fission.Szilárd, a Columbia University researcher, had found that fission could be...
View ArticleUS May Pull Out Of Afghanistan Completely If Karzai Doesn't Sign Deal
KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security deal with the United States, the White House said, opening up the prospect of a complete withdrawal of...
View ArticleUS Flies B-52s Into China's New Air Defense Zone
The U.S. flew two b-52s along a route that took them over a disputed island chain and deep into China's newly established air defense zone, reports the WSJ.Japan released a statement saying the new...
View ArticleTroops May Lose Historic TV Channel And Newspaper To Cuts
The Pentagon may cut the military's broadcast news and entertainment programs, reports Stars and Stripes.Since WWII, American Forces Network (AFN) has broadcasted 24-hour television programming to...
View ArticleKarzai Holds Afghan Security Agreement Hostage For Release Of Gitmo Detainees
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is holding hostage a multi-billion dollar security agreement with Washington (and NATO) for the release of 17 Afghan citizens from Guantanamo.Though Karzai's demand seems...
View ArticleArmy Officer Who Tried Blaming Twin Brother For Sexual Assaults Pleads Guilty
DENVER (Reuters) - A U.S. Army officer who initially blamed his identical twin brother for a series of sexual assaults on underage girls because they share the same DNA pleaded guilty to the crimes on...
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