The Supreme Court on Monday considered who has a right to challenge government eavesdropping on conversations between people in the United States and outside the country in a case touching on federal efforts to fight terrorism.
Source: The New York Times | Nation |
October 29, 2012
A regularly updated state-by-state report on Hurricane Sandy as it barrels up the East Coast, threatening to create havoc for tens of millions of people.
Source: The Greenville (S.C.) News | South Carolina |
October 26, 2012
At least seven employers in South Carolina have been cited for violating the state's newest tweaks to its immigration law, which requires all new employees, other than farm laborers, ministers and domestic servants, to be verified through the federal database.
Source: Los Angeles Times | Los Angeles |
October 23, 2012
Faster X-ray machines will be used at LAX and other busy airports to replace scanners criticized for creating potential health risks and privacy violations.
Source: Los Angeles Times | Southwest |
October 22, 2012
An Obama administration plan to install new cameras and improved ground sensors along the Southwest border has stalled, potentially creating unnecessary dangers for agents there.
Source: Christian Science Monitor | Nation |
October 19, 2012
The case of the Bangladeshi man who has been charged with attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank raises some troubling questions related to the international-student process.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a request from Alabama to revisit its decision in U.S. v. Alabama, which invalidated several areas of the state's immigration law
Federal authorities running a sting operation arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man, who came to the U.S. on a student visa and was allegedly planning to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb.
Source: Salt Lake Tribune | Utah |
October 11, 2012
Only 745 people in Utah have applied for deferred action and temporary work permits under President Barack Obama’s directive aimed at illegal immigrants brought to the United States as young children.
Source: Washington Post | Nation |
October 8, 2012
In the worst wildfire season on record, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service ran out of money to pay for firefighters, fire trucks and aircraft that dump retardant on monstrous flames.
The new rules mark a dramatic attempt by the nation's second-largest police department to distance itself from federal immigration policies that Charlie Beck says unfairly treat undocumented immigrants suspected of committing petty offenses.
State homeland security leaders and the local law enforcement community are disputing a Senate subcommittee’s charges that a network of 77 anti-terrorism centers, set up after 9/11 to share information, has “not produced useful intelligence to support federal counterterrorism efforts.”
The new organization will help state leaders create policy to protect infrastructure such as data and communication systems, financial records, banking systems, water systems, electrical grids and energy companies.