Deborah Charles

Travelers in U.S. won’t see snarls from government shutdown

May 10, 2019 at 2:29 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Air and rail travelers in the United States should not feel a big impact if Congress fails to avert a government shutdown on Tuesday, since passport inspectors,...

Syrian rebel group could revive al Qaeda’s fortunes: report

August 24, 2021 at 8:04 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A weakened al-Qaeda has the potential for resurgence in Syria, where the turmoil of civil war could help revive one of the group's close affiliates, a report...

Obama’s pick for No. 2 at Homeland Security says he did nothing wrong

August 24, 2021 at 6:32 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At a confirmation hearing on Thursday boycotted by Republican senators, President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy homeland security secretary denied allegations he abused his current government position...

Obama’s pick for No. 2 at Homeland Security says he did nothing wrong

May 23, 2019 at 9:16 p.m.

255 suspects caught in international child sexual predator sweep

August 24, 2021 at 6:12 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested 255 alleged child predators in the United States and eight other countries in an operation led by a U.S. agency that illustrated a growing...

NSA says agency surveillance helped foil 54 plots

August 24, 2021 at 5:31 p.m.

BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of the U.S. National Security Agency on Thursday offered a more detailed breakdown of 54 schemes by militants that he said were disrupted by phone...

Snowden hits back against critics of NSA leaks

August 24, 2021 at 5:01 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of Americans' phone and Internet data fought back against his critics on Monday, saying...

NSA leak prompts questions over U.S. reliance on contractors

August 24, 2021 at 4:34 p.m.

WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government may have to reconsider how much it relies on outside defense contractors who are given top security clearances after an NSA contractor exposed top-secret...

With troops and techies, U.S. prepares for cyber warfare

August 24, 2021 at 4:33 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On the site of a former military golf course where President Dwight Eisenhower once played, the future of U.S. warfare is rising in the shape of the...

Security agency scraps plan to allow small knives on planes

August 24, 2021 at 4:19 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. transportation security official said on Wednesday that he had decided not to permit passengers to carry small knives on airplanes, after receiving a drumbeat...

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