Pilot: What keeps you safe from terror hijackings
Brooklyn? Who would have thought the latest terrorist threat would have origins in one of the oldest boroughs in New York? My mother grew up in Brooklyn. And the fact…
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New Zealand confirms Iraq troop deployment
Key said ISISalso known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) posed a threat to stability in regions beyond the Middle East and New Zealand had “an…
Reports: Netanyahu, spy agency at odds over Iran’s nuclear program
Privately the same year, the Israeli spy agency Mossad assessed the threat as more remote, according to reports by Al Jazeera and The Guardian newspaper, which both cited leaked intelligence…
Australian Leader Outlines Crackdown on Terrorism
SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Tony Abbott of Australia said Monday that the government would seek to revoke the citizenship or curb the rights of Australians involved in terrorism and…
Stephen Hawking Warns That Aggression Could ‘Destroy Us All’
Forget doomsday asteroids, global plagues and super volcanoes. British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking says we’re facing a much more immediate threat — and it’s our own behavior. “The…
How big of a threat is Al-Shabaab to the United States?
Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and a vice president at the New America Foundation. He is the author of “Manhunt:…
How big of a threat is Al-Shabaab to the United States?
How big a threat is Al-Shabaab to the United States? Despite the Somali terrorist group’s calls over the weekend for attacks on malls in the West, including the vast Mall…
Ukraine official cites heavy losses in Debaltseve siege
Yuriy Biryukov, a presidential adviser and assistant to the defense minister, posted on Facebook that the soldiers had died in the Debaltseve area between January 18 and February 18, when…
DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security earlier this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists, and…
Jared Simpson Accused Of Bomb Scare After Trying To Pay Bar Tab With Rock
A judge has ordered a psychiatric examination for a man who allegedly tried to pay a bar tab with a rock, and then made a bogus bomb threat. Cops in…
UMass Amherst lifts ban on Iranian engineering students
UMass Amherst based its decision on a law Congress enacted in 2012. The “Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012,” restricts Iranian citizens from education in United…
6.9 earthquake hits off Japanese coast
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami threat from the quake.
U.S. Navy unveils robotic firefighter
The English vice-admiral Sir Francis Drake used fire shipsaging hulks set ablaze and allowed to float freely into the Armadato devastating effect, forcing the Spanish ships to break formation. More…
‘Humpback Whales’ Film Is An Important Reminder That Not Every Environmental Story Is Bad News
With so many of the world’s biggest environmental stories dominated by degradation, loss and rapid change, it can be quite relieving to get a little bit of good news. In…
AirAsia: More bodies and plane parts found on 8th day of search
At least four more bodies were recovered on Sunday, bringing the count to 34. The remains were transferred by helicopter to the processing center in Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia, to the…
Obama’s National Security Strategy Lists Climate Change Among ‘Top Strategic Risks’ To U.S.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s new national security strategy, released Friday, puts a top priority on climate change, calling it “an urgent and growing threat.” – National security leaders have…
Putin Spending Big On Military Modernization Despite Russia’s Economic Woes
Hundreds of new Russian aircraft, tanks and missiles are rolling off assembly lines. Russian jets roar through European skies under NATO’s wary eye. Tens of thousands of troops take part…
Google And Uber Are Going To War Over Taxis: Bloomberg
Uber faces an ever-growing cast of adversaries that includes dubious regulators, litigious drivers, hostile members of the press, and some well-funded rivals. But the most significant threat to the app-based…
Drones Spotted, but Not Halted, Raise Concerns
WASHINGTON — As Major League Baseball’s top players took the field at the All-Star Game in Minneapolis in July, a covert radar system scanned the sky above the 40,000-seat stadium…
Airlines get more than 50 online threats since Jan. 17
Since that threat, authorities have received more than 50 threats made online against airlines. The official says most of the incidents are believed to be copycat incidents. None of the…
Patricia Todd, Alabama’s Out State Representative, Says Her Pro-Gay Pledge Inspired Death Threats
Alabama’s only openly gay state legislator, Rep. Patricia Todd (D), expanded on the threat she made over the weekend in a Facebook update in which she said she’d out the…
U.S. military bases in Europe step up security
Hicks said the measures were “prudent” given the threat, but he would not specify the exact steps being taken. The additional measures will cover 90,000 people working for the command…
Big threats, big questions in Europe’s anti-terrorism fight
European security services in recent weeks have received indications that the extremist group ISIS may have started directing European adherents in Syria and Iraq to launch attacks back in their…
Is the U.S. at risk of a Paris-like attack?
One day after Cornell’s arrest Belgian authorities took down a group they believed was plotting imminent attacks, resulting in a battle with the suspects who opened fire with military weaponry…
Muslim lawmaker: Violence ‘doesn’t represent’ religion
“It’s not any different than those who claim to be Christians or Jews or Hindus and commit atrocious acts,” Democratic Rep. Andre Carson said on CNN’s New Day of the…
European counterterrorism officials scramble to identify potential threats
European security services in recent weeks have received indications that the extremist group ISIS may have started directing European adherents in Syria and Iraq to launch attacks back in their…
Boehner: Surveillance program helped foil U.S. terror plot
“The first thing that strikes me is that we would have never known about this had it not been for the FISA program and our ability to collect information on…
Sen. Angus King: ‘The real weapons of mass destruction today are unemployed 22-year-olds’
King, a member of the Senate’s intelligence and armed services committee, echoed intelligence assessments that “lone wolf” terrorists are the “toughest” threat to counter, but disagreed with his Republican colleagues,…
ISIS video claims to show boy executing two men accused of being Russian spies
He stands behind the two men, who are kneeling, and shoots them in the back of the head in a theatrically produced video with slow motion. The boy stands over…
Following the tangled and treacherous trail after France terror attack
That picture looks much more complex one week later. The final death toll was 17, plus three suspects killed. The threads that investigators have followed from the newsroom of the…