Homeland Security News
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Sulaiman Abu Ghayth, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and his former chief spokesman, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to kill Americans before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Kabul today on his first international trip, a week after becoming the top Pentagon official, to prepare for what he called a “responsible transition” in the Afghan war.
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While President Barack Obama has spent weeks warning of the dark consequences of across-the-board budget cuts, there’s one area of government where his staff has failed to calculate their impact: the White House itself.
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The Department of Homeland Security will delay an intrusion detection program to protect U.S. government computers from cyber-attacks and has canceled cybersecurity exercises, Secretary Janet Napolitano said today.
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It didn’t take long for sequestration to bite.
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The Senate will consider a measure next week to fund the U.S. government through September after the House passed its plan to avoid a shutdown and preserve new spending cuts.
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A month after President Barack Obama issued an executive order on strengthening U.S. cybersecurity, companies want Congress to provide incentives for joining the federal push for sturdier computer defenses.
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Republican Whip Jon Kyl, the senator from Arizona who retired from Congress in January, is joining Covington & Burling LLP’s global public policy and government affairs practice.
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Senate Democrats are pressing for a vote on John Brennan’s nomination as CIA director as soon as today, a day after the Obama administration shored up support by letting lawmakers see legal opinions justifying drone strikes against U.S. citizens suspected of al-Qaeda ties.
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Customs inspectors trimmed working hours at the nation’s second-busiest container port and lines more than doubled at some of the largest airports as U.S. spending cuts began slowing transportation links.
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