West Virginia senator removed as committee chair after indecent exposure charges
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The chair of a key West Virginia state legislative committee was removed fr...
Government surveillance
2 men arrested in strangulation of 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek
HOUSTON (AP) — Two men who were seen on surveillance footage with a 12-year-old girl before her body...
FBI investigator gives jury at Sen. Bob Menendez’s trial an inside account of surveillance
NEW YORK (AP) — An investigator provided a New York jury a riveting account on Tuesday of an evening...
Senate passes reauthorization of key US surveillance program after midnight deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — After its midnight deadline, the Senate voted early Saturday to reauthorize a key ...
California governor to deploy 500 surveillance cameras to Oakland to fight crime
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of high-tech surveillance cameras are being installed in the city of...
Detecting Russian ‘carrots’ and ‘tea bags': Ukraine decodes enemy chatter to save lives
SEREBRYANSKY FOREST, Ukraine (AP) — As the radio crackles with enemy communications that are hard to...
Schools are using surveillance tech to catch students vaping, snaring some with harsh punishments
When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn’t realize how much could be...
Officials in Martinique rescue two boaters and search for three others after boat capsizes
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in the French Caribbean island of Martinique say two people ...
With ‘God’s-eye view,’ secretive surveillance flights keep close watch on Russia and Ukraine
ABOARD A FRENCH AIR FORCE AWACS (AP) — Off in the distance, Ukraine, fighting for its survival. Seen...
Police investigation finds Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert didn’t punch ex-husband as he claimed
DENVER (AP) — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has been cleared of domestic violence allegations made by her...
US biotech company halts sales of DNA kits in Tibet, as lawmakers mull more export controls on China
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. biotech company has halted sales of its DNA testing products in the Chinese...
Georgia election worker says she feared for her life over fraud lies in Giuliani defamation case
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Georgia election worker told jurors Tuesday that she feared for her life as she ...
Police responding to burglary kill a man authorities say was armed with knife
SHENANADOAH, Pa. (AP) — Police responding to a reported burglary at a southeastern Pennsylvania home...
A Chinese military surveillance balloon is spotted in Taiwan Strait, island’s Defense Ministry says
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says a Chinese military surveillance balloon was spo...
FBI chief makes fresh pitch for spy program renewal and says it’d be ‘devastating’ if it lapsed
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray called Tuesday for the reauthorization of a U.S. gov...
Philippines opens a coast guard surveillance base in the South China Sea to watch Chinese vessels
THITU ISLAND, South China Sea (AP) — The Philippine coast guard inaugurated a new monitoring base Fr...
A new Pentagon program aims to speed up decisions on what AI tech is trustworthy enough to deploy
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Artificial intelligence employed by the U.S. military has piloted pint-s...
South Korea partially suspends inter-Korean agreement after North says it put spy satellite in orbit
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will partially suspend an inter-Korean agreement Wednesday to ...
NATO to buy 6 more ‘eyes in the sky’ planes to update its surveillance capability
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO announced Wednesday it has opted to buy six new E-7A Wedgetail surveillance pla...
Key US spy tool will lapse at year’s end unless Congress and the White House can cut a deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — With just seven weeks until the end of the year, the Biden administration is runni...