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Purdue students use Indy 500 to study homeland security
Purdue University is using the Indianapolis 500 as an opportunity to teach. Students studying homeland security are getting the chance to see what it takes to keep people safe at a large event like the race. As people lined up to get into the track for...
Tags: Purdue University, Indianapolis 500
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'Flood' of fake military parts from China found in U.S. equipment
CNNThe results of a more-than-year-long Senate investigation into counterfeit parts being used in U.S. military equipment were released Monday and - as they had from the start - investigators are putting most of the blame on China. "Our report outlines...Tags: CNN (tv network), Semiconductors and Active Components, John McCain, Carl Levin, Barack Obama
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Super PAC forms to fight defense cuts
SAN DIEGO -- A political action committee was started Tuesday in San Diego to fight proposed defense budget cuts. Organizers of the Fight 4 America super PAC unveiled three television commercials that focus on what they believe is deficient defense...
Tags: Armed Forces, Barack Obama, Defense, National Defense Authorization Act, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Newark airport security worker pleads not guilty to ID theft
NEW YORK -- A longtime Newark Liberty International Airport security worker pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of stealing the identity of a man slain 20 years ago to conceal his illegal immigration status -- a case that has embarrassed an airport...
Tags: Rutgers University, Theft, Tampa, Frank Lautenberg, New York City
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G8 leaders tout economic growth, fiscal responsibility
President Barack Obama and fellow leaders at the Group of Eight meeting he hosted Saturday put job creation and economic growth at the top of their to-do list. "(They) must be our top priority. A stable growing European economy is in everybody's best...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Meles Zenawi, NATO Summit, Afghanistan, Barack Obama
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Federal judge blocks National Defense Authorization Act provision
In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest...
Tags: Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barack Obama, Lawyers, Laws
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Homeland Security official: Airport employees are potential terror risks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Commercial air travel is at risk from terrorists who quietly get jobs at airports so that they can attack from within sensitive areas, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers Wednesday. There has never been...
Tags: Queens (New York City), Politics, Personal Data Collection, Transportation Security Administration, Bennie G Thompson
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Fears of spying hinder U.S. license for China Mobile
WASHINGTON — Concerned about possible cyber spying, U.S. national security officials are debating whether to take the unprecedented step of recommending that a Chinese government-owned mobile phone giant be denied a license to offer international...
Tags: Politics, China, Unrest, Conflicts and War, China Mobile Limited, China Unicom Limited
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Newark airport security? Worker used fake ID for years, police say
NEW YORK -- Twenty years ago, a man named Jerry Thomas died in New York City -- murdered in Queens in a case that was never solved. Not long afterward, a man named Jerry Thomas began working at Newark's international airport. The second Jerry Thomas...
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Queens (New York City), Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New York City, Transportation Security Administration
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Balancing cybersecurity and privacy
From the assembly lines of Detroit to the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the oil fields of Houston, our country has been built by an entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation. And despite our recent economic challenges, that spirit is alive and well....
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Science, Vaccines, Politics, China
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Dead Dog Among Security Breaches at Newark Airport
pix11.com | @murphypixA Department of Homeland Security report released Monday revealed TSA, the Transportation Security Administration, was not funneling enough information about security breaches at Newark Airport and five, other facilities to a national operations center....Tags: Rutgers University, FBI, Frank Lautenberg, Long Island, Transportation Security Administration
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Baltimore, other cities battle federal security funding plan
Local homeland security officials in Baltimore and across the country are fighting a proposal to change how $2 billion in federal emergency management money is distributed — a change they say would jeopardize regional efforts to respond to terrorist...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Tampa, Amtrak, FEMA, George Bush
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