Arguing that “smear” videos made abortion clinics targets of crime and threats, a lawyer urged a federal judge Wednesday to make those who helped create the “selectively edited” videos pay for Planned Parenthood’s increased security costs.
Read moreAn annual retreat in California put on by an elite club whose ranks include former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and powerful business leaders is facing scrutiny for excluding women after female county supervisors questioned whether they should continue allowing sheriff’s deputies to provide security for the event.
Read moreThe 2020 presidential election is a tantalizing target for hackers, foreign influences and other peddlers of propaganda but stopping all forms of interference is virtually impossible, national security officials told a House panel Wednesday.
Read moreMicrosoft announced an ambitious effort it says will make voting secure, verifiable and subject to reliable audits. Two of the three top U.S elections vendors have expressed interest in potentially incorporating the open-source software into their proprietary voting systems.
Read moreSri Lanka’s president has asked for the resignations of the defense secretary and the national police chief after security forces failed to act on warnings before Easter suicide bombings that killed at least 359 people.
Read moreVoting in the second phase of India’s general election on Thursday remained largely peaceful amid massive security and a lockdown in parts of the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Read moreThe Chinese woman charged with misleading Secret Service agents to gain entry into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club was denied bail Monday moments after federal prosecutors back-tracked on testimony that she carried an insidious computer virus with her onto the property.
Read moreThe Chinese woman accused of illegally entering President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club armed with malicious software had a signal detector, $7,500 in hundred-dollar bills and nine USB drives stashed in her hotel room at the time of her arrest, a Secret Service agent said at a hearing Monday.
Read moreForeign and interior ministers from the Group of Seven are gathering in France this week to try to find ambitious solutions to world security challenges. Putting a damper on that are two glaring American absences: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Read moreSaying it lacks the final word on who treks in and out of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, the U.S. Secret Service has denied responsibility for an incident in which a Chinese woman gained unauthorized access to the sprawling Palm Beach property under suspect circumstances.
Read moreA day before the fight for the Mueller report is expected to turn the same corner, a powerful House committee voted Tuesday to subpoena the Trump administration over its security-clearance practices and the decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Read moreA career official in the White House security office says dozens of people in President Donald Trump’s administration were granted security clearances despite “disqualifying issues” in their backgrounds, such as concerns about foreign influence, drug use and criminal conduct.
Read moreTwo Democratic lawmakers called Tuesday for the Department of Justice to investigate the omissions White House adviser Jared Kushner made in his applications for top-secret security clearance.
Read moreIn an ongoing battle over First Amendment rights on college campuses across the country, right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro is pushing back against university policies that conservatives say are designed to stifle their speech.
Read moreVictims of a terrorist attack that killed 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub have taken to a Florida appeals court to revive their claims that the perpetrator used nearly a decade of firearms training as a security guard to maximize the death toll.
Read moreA former Trump communications aide brought a federal complaint Monday to block arbitration over whether his new tell-all “Team of Vipers” violated a nondisclosure agreement.
Read moreCautious about the government’s efforts to safeguard the 2020 presidential race, election-security experts worry that the job is too formidable to finish in the time that remains.
Read moreTo advance a privacy class action against Facebook, Android users must explain precisely what permissions they granted before the tech giant started harvesting their phone call and text data, a federal judge said in court Thursday.
Read moreA pilot who represented himself at the D.C. Circuit lost his bid on Tuesday to overturn changes the Transportation Security Administration made to the screening program for commercial airline crews.
Read moreThe insurer that paid out more than $6.1 million to Kim Kardashian West for a 2016 robbery brought negligence claims Wednesday against the reality star’s former bodyguard.
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