Hillary Clinton disregarded State Department cybersecurity guidelines by using a private email account and server, an internal audit found Wednesday. Her staff twice brushed aside specific concerns that she wasn’t following federal rules. The inspector general’s review also revealed that ...
Read More »TSA chief: Help is on the way to address long airport lines
The head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday the beleaguered agency will add 768 new screeners by mid-June to deal with increasingly long airport security lines that have caused passengers to miss flights even before the busy summer travel ...
Read More »Feds: Company hasn’t done enough to end slow-motion oil leak
The Justice Department is urging a federal court to let government regulators decide if a New Orleans company has done enough to end an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began nearly 12 years ago and could last ...
Read More »Smaller cities across US opening high-tech crime centers
Michelle Plante scoured a surveillance video for clues, trying to identify the man seen shooting at someone in a Hartford playground recently in broad daylight. Luckily, no children were there, and the man fled into a nearby house after missing ...
Read More »Attorney general: Civil rights key to suit against LGBT law
Civil rights laws exist for anyone victimized because of a physical characteristic they can’t control, and that’s why the U.S. Justice Department challenged a North Carolina law that blocks some legal protections for LGBT citizens, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch ...
Read More »Senate votes to scrap catfish inspection program
The Senate has voted to scrap a new catfish inspection program that critics have argued is wasteful and unnecessary. The vote Wednesday came just after President Barack Obama visited Vietnam, a major exporter of catfish to the United States that ...
Read More »Missouri Sen. Blunt calls on VA secretary to resign
A Republican senator on Tuesday called for Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald to resign after McDonald compared long wait times at VA health care sites to waiting in line at a Disney amusement park. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri said ...
Read More »Coming soon to Twitter: More room to tweet
Twitter is making some big changes, at least in the context of 140 characters or less. The social media service said Tuesday that in coming months, photos, videos and other media won’t count toward Twitter’s 140-character limit. That means more ...
Read More »Missouri GOP committee backs closed primaries
Only voters registered with a specific party could vote in Missouri primaries under a policy change some state Republicans want to see adopted. The proposal for closed primaries gained momentum this past week after Missouri Republican State Committee members in ...
Read More »US new-home sales jump to highest level in more than 8 years
Americans ramped up their purchases of new homes in April to the highest level since January 2008, evidence of a strong start to the spring buying season. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that new home sales jumped 16.6 percent last ...
Read More »Suspect arrested in death of coal executive Bennett Hatfield
A man has been arrested in the death of a former coal company executive found shot at a West Virginia cemetery where his wife is buried, a sheriff said Tuesday. Mingo County Sheriff James Smith said Anthony R. Arriaga, 20, ...
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