U.S. To Create New Cybersecurity Agency: Official
WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – The United States government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks, a senior…
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U.S. Secret Service Deputy Director Steps Down
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service is leaving his post, the agency said on Monday, in the latest top level departure this year…
Overture by Houthis to Ousted Officials
SANA, Yemen — Leaders of the Houthi rebels announced on Saturday that they had appointed four key ministers from the government they ousted to a national security committee. The move…
Argentina Fails To Find Ex-Spy Chief Tied To Dead Prosecutor Case
By Sarah Marsh and Richard Lough BUENOS AIRES, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Argentine investigators failed on Thursday to track down a former spymaster wanted for questioning over the death of…
Argentine Former Spy Called To Testify About Dead Prosecutor: Report
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Investigators into the mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman just days after he made serious allegations against the president have called for a…
Top Republican takes aim at Secret Service reform
The agency lacks leadership and proper training. The No. 2 in command — one of the only senior leaders left after a series of scandals and mistakes led to major…
At least 13 killed as plane hits bridge, crashes in Taipei river
Dozens remain missing. Rescuers scrambled to pull survivors from the submerged wreck of the twin engine turboprop aircraft, which went down shortly after takeoff from the Taiwanese capital. Fifty eight…
At Least 9 Dead After Small Plane Crashes Into River in Taiwan
HONG KONG — A small passenger plane crashed into a river in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, on Wednesday morning, Taiwan’s state-owned Central News Agency reported, citing a local government official. At…
U.N. Concerned About Reports That Food Aid to Syria Is in ISIS Hands
GENEVA — The United Nations food relief agency said it was “extremely concerned” about the possible manipulation of its aid to Syria after images posted on jihadist websites and social…
S.&.P. Announces $1.37 Billion Settlement With Prosecutors
Standard & Poor’s, a rating agency accused of inflating its assessment of mortgage investments that spurred the 2008 financial crisis, said on Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $1.37…
Obama Gets An Incomplete On NSA Reform
President Barack Obama promised to reform the National Security Agency a year ago this month. Interviews and a report released Thursday show just how slow the going has been. The…
Snowden Files Reveal Canada Spy Agency CSE Tracks Millions Of Downloads A Day
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, Jan 28 (Reuters) – Canada’s electronic spy agency has been intercepting and analyzing data on up to 15 million file downloads a day as part of…
White House drone operator worked for U.S. intelligence agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agencya little-known but enormous agency with a broad mission that ranges from supporting U.S. combat efforts to aiding security planning for the Olympicssaid Tuesday that one of…
Amazon Investigated in Japan Over Child Pornography
“We take this investigation seriously, and we are cooperating fully with the authorities,” Amazon said in a statement Monday. “We don’t permit illegal items on our site, and we have…
Argentine Leader Attacks Spy Agency Amid Furor Over Prosecutor’s Death
BUENOS AIRES — With her government badly shaken over the mysterious death of a prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said in…
S.&P. Cuts Russian Debt One Notch to Junk Level
As Russia deals with the heavy toll of Western sanctions and falling oil prices, a major credit ratings agency on Monday downgraded the country’s sovereign debt to below investment grade,…
U.S. Contractor Awarded More Than $1 Billion Is Suspended Over ‘Serious Misconduct’
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – The United States said on Monday it had suspended International Relief and Development, a non-profit aid contractor which won major U.S. contracts in Iraq and…
Once-Classified UFO Files Now Searchable Online
The truth is out there … well, a large portion of the truth, anyway. Approximately 130,000 pages of files from an official 22-year Air Force UFO study, known as Project…
Sony Postpones Earnings Announcement, Blaming Hacking Attacks
As those attacks led to public discussions about cybersecurity and geopolitics, and Hollywood’s relation with the two — and as the story moved from Sony to North Korea to the National…
Hope Solo suspended from U.S. Soccer team for 30 days
Solo’s husband, former pro football player Jerramy Stevens, was charged with driving under the influence during the early morning hours Monday in Manhattan Beach, California, about 12 miles from Carson….
North Korea slams defector over inaccuracies in story
Days after North Korea’s most famous defector revealed some of the details in his accounts about life in prison camps weren’t true, the country’s government fired back Tuesday. Shin Dong-hyuk’s…
No sign or sounds of terrorism in cockpit recording from AirAsia QZ8501
Audio recordings from the cockpit of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 contain no sounds of gunfire or explosions, making it unlikely the plane was brought down by terrorism, Indonesian investigators say. The…
NSA Tapped Into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say
The trail that led American officials to blame North Korea for the destructive cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November winds back to 2010, when the National Security Agency scrambled…
Another alligator seized in Los Angeles
The 2½-foot-long American alligator found Thursday was in a large aquarium, a news release from the agency said. – Criminal investigations are being performed in both cases, but authorities have…
UK’s Beagle 2 lander spotted on Mars
The landercrammed with devices to look for signs of life on Marsnever radioed home after hitching a ride aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter and dropping into the…
Trafficked Chinese boy reunited with family after 24 years apart
On Tuesday, Sun was finally reacquainted with his aging father, Sun Youhong, and a younger sister he had never met. The moment was captured in a moving series of photographs….
ISIS governor of Mosul killed in coalition airstrikes
Hassan Saeed Al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Taluut, was killed 18 miles south of Mosul in the village of Qayyara, according to Maj. Gen. Watheq Al-Hamdani, a senior regional Iraqi…
Astronauts relocate after space station alarm
The U.S. astronauts are safe, the agency said. – It is possible that the alarm was set off by a faulty sensor or some other cause, he said.
David Petraeus Fast Facts
Birth place: Cornwall, New York Birth name: David Howell Petraeus Father: Sixtus Petraeus, Danish-born sea captain Mother: Miriam (Howell) Petraeus Marriage: Holly (Knowlton) Petraeus (July 6, 1974-present) Children: Anne; Stephen…