by Stephanie Haines | Jan 22, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A Senate bill that would impose more sanctions on Iran could make it more difficult to successfully negotiate a deal to limit the country’s nuclear enrichment program, a group of experts said Wednesday. On Monday the P5+1 countries — the five permanent...
by Jessica Floum | Jan 22, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A panel of security and terrorism experts urged heightened safeguards against threats at the 2014 Sochi Olympics during a news briefing at the Center for Strategic & International Studies Tuesday. Caucasus separatist fighters in the Chechen...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 15, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – American veterans are facing a deadly new threat, according to the results of a Government Accountability Office investigation released Wednesday, but the problems aren’t coming from the battlefield — they’re coming from hospital rooms. In a hearing...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Jan 15, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael McCaul accused the Obama administration Wednesday of endangering national security by downplaying the continued activity of al-Qaida. Tuesday’s hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, built around the Republican theme,...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee members Tuesday raised concerns with proposals by a presidential commission that the National Security Agency no longer collect millions of phone records and other electronic information, relying instead on private...
by Stephanie Haines | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – A workers’ rights group Wednesday filed a complaint with the Department of Labor challenging low pay of food court workers at Washington’s Union Station, then the workers and activists joined together for a protest at the famed railway station to push for...
by Christophe Haubursin | Jan 14, 2014 | National Security
Close to 150 protesters from various human and constitutional rights organizations called for President Barack Obama to make good on his promise of closing Guantanamo Bay on the 12th anniversary of the prison’s opening. The reasons were varied, but the message...
by Stephanie Haines | Jan 8, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Senate homeland security committee focused Wednesday on John Roth’s integrity at his hearing for his nomination Department of Homeland Security inspector general, a post that has been vacant for nearly three years and been the subject of...
by Mitchell Armentrout | Mar 19, 2013 | National Security
WASHINGTON – For three decades, Mike Viterna worked to get members of the military the health care services they needed at bases in the U.S. and around the world. Now he’s fighting to make sure they continue to get fast treatment when they leave the military. “They’re...
by Marshall Cohen | Mar 19, 2013 | National Security
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., (left) and Sen. Bob Casey Jr., D-Pa., (right) announce Tuesday a new bill to provide nonlethal aid and training to vetted elements of the Syrian opposition. They spoke to reporters in the Dirksen Senate Office Building shortly before a...
by Tara Longardner & Olivia Marcus | Mar 18, 2013 | National Security
WASHINGTON — After Jennifer Norris was drugged and raped by her Air Force recruiter, she stayed silent. She also did not file a report after her technical school instructor at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi sexually assaulted her out of fear of losing her...
