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The United States will send an aircraft carrier and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran, national security advisor John Bolton announced on Sunday. NEW: US is deploying an aircra…

From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts reprinted with permission. Volumes for U.S. railroads in April 2019 were far from ideal, but they were much better than in March. Total carloads in April were down 0.9%…

from the some-bad-news,-worse-news,-and-indecipherable-news dept The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released the 2018 Transparency Report . In it, the ODNI covers the government's multiple surveillance programs, detailing (bu…

American server supplier Super Micro is dropping Chinese chips from its products, despite zero evidence ever emerging to support claims of spy chips installed in Apple and Amazon servers and a great deal of evidence to suggest that Bloomberg’s report was wron…

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has signaled in recent weeks that it may seek the permanent renewal of a surveillance law that has, among other things, enabled the National Security Agency to gather and analyze Americans' phone records as part of terror…

All inmates being held in New York City jails will no longer have to pay a fee to make a phone call, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday. The Democratic mayor said waiving the fee for the citys more than 8,000 inmates will keep them better connected to famil…

Starbucks Corp. is voluntarily recalling a coffee press it sold for more than two years after receiving reports about it breaking during use, causing cuts and puncture wounds. The Seattle-based coffee chain is recalling about 263,200 of the presses in the U.…

[Matt Polotsky's new book, The National Security Sublime, is a tour through the look-and-feel of mass surveillance, as practiced by the most unlikely of aesthetes: big data authoritarian snoops and the grifter military contractors who wax fat on them. This is…

Media captionAbu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been seen on video for five years He is the world's most wanted man. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the fugitive leader of the Islamic State (IS) group and its self-styled "caliph", has a $25m (£19m) US government bounty on h…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50 weeks in jail for breaching bail while awaiting extradition to Sweden on sexual assault accusations in 2012. Judge Deborah Taylor on Wednesday said it was hard to envisage a more serious example of th…