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A catastrophic failure of America’s electrical power grid because of a solar flare, sabotage or cyberattack is highly likely, experts told House members this month. Two subcommittees of the House’s Committee on Science, Space and Technology heard testimony that confirmed ...

Are you engaging in “suspicious activity”? You might be, according to the federal government – especially if you take pictures in public. That’s the issue under consideration in Gill v. Department of Justice, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil ...

It is impossible to ignore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict even thousands of miles away here in our nation. The conflict even splits some Americans against each other. It’s very easy for Americans to become embroiled in the war even without the ...

A power grid attack occurred in Arizona last week, yet it barely caused a flutter in the 24/7 news cycle. If the makeshift bomb had functioned as designed, more than 30,000 residents would have been in the dark, sent back ...

The U.S. Justice Department will increase its surveillance of US citizens in a stepped-up effort to combat domestic terrorism, including those who it calls “anti-government.” US Attorney General Eric Holder has reactivated a Clinton Administration taskforce designed to combat, for ...

The power grid is perhaps the most vulnerable aspect of infrastructure in the United States, and a new federal report states that if just nine of the 55,000 substations failed or were sabotaged, the entire nation would suffer a blackout ...

The FBI is increasing its scrutiny of both visitors to the United States and American citizens under a new plan. The federal agency is in the process of hiring nearly 120 new full-time private contractors to “amass and screen data” ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is acknowledging it is no longer a law enforcement agency – at least, not primarily one. Instead, the FBI now lists “national security” as its primary mission, and it has done so with little attention. ...

Al Qaeda groups in Syria have vowed to bring their fight to the United States and Britain once they have accomplished their goals in the Middle Eastern country. A video published by Vice News includes interviews with a pair of ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been transformed into a domestic intelligence agency and a threat to American liberty in the years since September 11, 2001. That’s the conclusion of one of the nation’s most respected legal advocacy groups, the ...