by Paige Leskin | Jan 7, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration needs tougher security procedures and screenings for airport workers following the December discovery of an airport gun smuggling ring, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday. Along with Brooklyn District...
by Tal Axelrod | Jan 7, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Two authors described the perils of homegrown terrorism in the west in a talk to the liberal-leaning New America Foundation Wednesday. The think tank discussion featured Mubin Shaikh and Anne Speckhard and was moderated by New America Foundation Director...
by William Hicks | Jan 7, 2015 | National Security
WASHINGTON — With the mood already solemn because the day’s terrorist attacks in France, two members of Congress Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to release classified information on the terrorist attacks of 9/11. “Just like the tragedy in France today, no...
by Christophe Haubursin | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — There are days when Navy veteran Brian Lewis is in too much pain to get out of bed. Since he moved to the outskirts of Saint Paul, Minn. three months ago, he’s been trying to get a medication consultation at the local veterans hospital. Lewis, a former...
by Christophe Haubursin | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Appearing before a Senate panel, former Lance Corp. Jeremiah Arbogast asked for better healthcare for veterans from a wheelchair stamped with a Marine Corps emblem. But Arbogast’s injuries were not sustained on the battlefield. They were from a 9mm...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security
On a scorching day in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, Shafi Sharifi found himself sitting with an opium farmer in the middle of a brightly colored field of poppies. It was 1999. Sharifi was working for Doctors Without Borders, distributing mosquito nets to...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — After President Barack Obama’s 2015 defense spending plan was unveiled, hawkish Republicans were quick to criticize the president for drawing back military funding as Russia intervened in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. “We are deeply concerned that the...
by Vesko Cholakov | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security, Politics
Explore how the Crimean crisis unfolded, leading to a vote seceding from Ukraine and joining Russia, and what it revealed about President Barack Obama’s diplomatic, economic and military tactics. How would you have played the foreign policy game yourself?
by Mary Kate Hayes | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security joined forces Tuesday with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Postal Inspection Service to identify major players in an international operation involving underground child pornography. In the past few...
by Stephanie Haines | Mar 18, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON—Two years after President Barack Obama removed all U.S. combat troops from Iraq, the al-Qaida threat in the region has grown more menacing, but few analysts or lawmakers agree on what role the U.S. should play in the on-going conflict. “Al-Qaida was...
