President Obama lauded former President George H.W. Bush at an event honoring the winner of the 5,000 Daily Point of Light Award. NBC's Peter Alexander reports.
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If full-body scanners and TSA pat-downs make you feel uncomfortable, you now have an alternate option - for the hefty price of $85.
The Transportation Security Administration has launched a new program that will allow members to bypass regular airport security checkpoints. Those enrolled in the "trusted traveler" program, called TSA PreCheck, will no longer have to remove their shoes, jackets, and belts. Members can also keep their laptop computers in their bags.
Currently, only members of frequent-flier programs are given the opportunity to apply without paying a fee. But TSA Administrator John Pistole on Friday announced that all travelers will soon be able to join PreCheck - as long as they pay $85, provide identifying information, pass a background check, and undergo fingerprinting.
Pistole said that enrollment will be opened to the public later this year, and that he expects an additional 3 million people to sign up for PreCheck before the end of the year. About 12 million travelers are currently enrolled.
If his estimates are accurate, the TSA will reap about $255 million from the program in 2013.
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New York Times reporter James Risen has said in previous comments that he will rather go to prison than reveal the identity of his source
New York Times reporter James Risen has said in previous comments that he will rather go to prison than reveal the identity of his source
A federal appeals court has delivered a blow to investigative journalism in America by ruling that reporters have no first amendment protection that would safeguard the confidentiality of their sources in the event of a criminal trial.
In a two-to-one ruling from the fourth circuit appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, two judges ruled that a New York Times reporter, James Risen, must give evidence at the criminal trial of a former CIA agent who is being prosecuted for unauthorised leaking of state secrets.
The ruling, written by chief judge William Traxler, states in stark terms that even when a reporter has promised confidentiality to a source, "there is no first amendment testimonial privilege, absolute or qualified, that protects a reporter from being compelled to testify ... in criminal proceedings".
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Airports already have a huge amount of theft do to baggage checks. Now a criminal can help themselves to any thing you may have kept in your vehicle. A corrupt or ambivalent person could mess up something with your car as an engine check is part of the 3 point check. Leave the hood of your car unlatched and cause an accident! This is a law suit waiting to happen.
This is 100% conditioning for us to accept warrant-less check points. This is a complete melt down of our constitution and shows that we are getting ready for tyranny at a national scale.
20 Firetrucks, 4+ ambulance and police showed up
There is zero media coverage about this beside Stopmotions stream of the event and a few locals tweeting about it
This is supposedly where JP Morgan keeps their gold. The very same gold that has been dwindling down at astonishing rates lately. JP Morgan warehouse 100 feet below CMP 1 on Wall Street.
Tons of Fire Trucks and even Ambulances on the scene.
There is zero media coverage about this beside Stopmotions stream of the event and a few locals tweeting about it
This is supposedly where JP Morgan keeps their gold. The very same gold that has been dwindling down at astonishing rates lately. JP Morgan warehouse 100 feet below CMP 1 on Wall Street.
Tons of Fire Trucks and even Ambulances on the scene.
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Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, left, on Sept. 22, 2008, as he testified in a Miami court in the murder trial of former FBI agent John Connolly; and James "Whitey" Bulger, right, in a June 23, 2011 booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service. Flemmi, Bulger's alleged former partner serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to 10 killings, is expected to testify in Bulger's trial Thursday, July 18, 2013 in federal court in Boston. Bulger, now 83, is accused in a 32-count racketeering indictment and in playing a role in 19 killings in the 1970s and ‘80s while he allegedly led the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, left, on Sept. 22, 2008, as he testified in a Miami court in the murder trial of former FBI agent John Connolly; and James "Whitey" Bulger, right, in a June 23, 2011 booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service. Flemmi, Bulger's alleged former partner serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to 10 killings, is expected to testify in Bulger's trial Thursday, July 18, 2013 in federal court in Boston. Bulger, now 83, is accused in a 32-count racketeering indictment and in playing a role in 19 killings in the 1970s and ‘80s while he allegedly led the Winter Hill Gang in Boston.
Steve Flemmi is the prosecution key witness already serving life without parole who says he accompanies Bulger on most of his murder sprees, including the strangling of Flemini's own girlfriend, Debra Davies, because she knew the two men were FBI informers.
On Friday Flemmi testifies that in the 1980s, FBI agent John Newton gave him and Bulger a case of C-4 explosives to send to the IRA.
"It was a surprise when we got it," Flemmi old the court adding that he believed that Newton, who was a former Green Beret, got the plastic explosives while in military training.
Newton had the explosives in his South Boston home and arranged for the two gangsters to come and pick it up. Newton has denied the accusation.
Links to the IRA have surfaced in the trial. Bulger was very close to senior IRA figure Joe Cahill, meeting him frequently in Boston after he smuggled him across the border from Canada on a supporters bus when the Boston Bruins hockey team were playing a Canadian side.
Bulger idolized Cahill according to Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy two Boston Globe writers who have written a definitive book on Bulger called "Whitey Bulger".
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Many of the e-mails in his inbox were from friends expressing sympathy for his having been put through the mangle of the state machine; his responses were hopeful. In one he spoke of arrangements having been made for his return to Iraq in 8 days; he was looking forward to that. This man from the Welsh Valleys graduated with his DSc in microbiology from Linacre College, Oxford in 1971. He joined the Civil Service in 1984 and was acting head of the Porton Down 'Defence' Microbiology Division for 10 years. These functions on Salisbury Plain widened (1)
Whistleblower posted photos of luxury cars of officials, including several memebers of one prominent family
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Chinese President Xi Jinping took office with a pledge to strike hard against corruption, and a number of high- and low-level officials have since been investigated but there are still no signs the party is willing to undertake real institutional reforms to fight corruption.
Chinese President Xi Jinping took office with a pledge to strike hard against corruption, and a number of high- and low-level officials have since been investigated but there are still no signs the party is willing to undertake real institutional reforms to fight corruption.
Li Jianxin, 47, is in hospital after being recently attacked. His car was rammed from behind and he was allegedly taken by three men to a remote industrial park in the southern city of Huizhou, where they doused him with acid and hacked at him with knives.
A woman from a worker's dormitory nearby found Li lying on the ground in a pool of blood and his six-year-old son wailing in his car.
Li had posted dozens of reports of corruption on a popular local Internet forum.
UPDATE: FDNY tweet confirms fire is in a commercial vault at JPMs old HQ of 15 Broad St.
A journalist on scene on Wall Street this evening has just sent us footage of a massive fleet of Firetrucks and ambulances in front of the JP Morgan Chase building, with fire-fighters stating they are responding to a COMMERCIAL VAULT FIRE IN THE BASEMENT!
With JPM's gold inventory plunging 66% Friday to an all-time low of 46,000 ounces, and with reportedly over 502,000 ounces still standing against JPM for the JUNE gold contract, is the long anticipated force-majeure event in progress?
A journalist on scene on Wall Street this evening has just sent us footage of a massive fleet of Firetrucks and ambulances in front of the JP Morgan Chase building, with fire-fighters stating they are responding to a COMMERCIAL VAULT FIRE IN THE BASEMENT!
With JPM's gold inventory plunging 66% Friday to an all-time low of 46,000 ounces, and with reportedly over 502,000 ounces still standing against JPM for the JUNE gold contract, is the long anticipated force-majeure event in progress?
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The US military said four unarmed bombs were dropped in the Great Barrier Reef marine park.
The US military said four unarmed bombs were dropped in the Great Barrier Reef marine park.
Two American fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs into Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park last week, when a training exercise went wrong, the US Navy said, angering environmentalists.
The two AV-8B Harrier jets, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Bonhomme Richard, each jettisoned an inert practice bomb and an unarmed laser-guided explosive bomb into the World Heritage-listed marine park off the coast of Queensland state on Tuesday, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement on Saturday. The four bombs, weighing a total 1.8 metric tons (4,000 pounds), were dropped into more than 50 meters (164ft) of water, away from coral, to minimize possible damage to the reef, the statement said. None exploded.
The jets, from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, had intended to drop the ordnances on the Townshend Island bombing range, but aborted the mission when controllers reported the area was not clear of hazards. The pilots conducted the emergency jettison because they were low on fuel and could not land with their bomb load, the Navy said.
The emergency happened on the second day of the biennial joint training exercise Talisman Saber, which brings together 28,000 US and Australian military personnel over three weeks. The US Navy and Marine Corps were working with Australian authorities to investigate the incident, the Navy said.
