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An untethered Army surveillance blimp flies over Bloomsburg, Pa.

JLENS blimp returns to Earth in Central Pennsylvania; military recovery ‘in progress’

June 29, 2019 at 4:24 a.m.

The military surveillance blimp that broke free of its mooring at Aberdeen Proving Ground Wednesday morning has returned to Earth after a four-hour, 160-mile, power line-snapping odyssey, authorities said. NORAD...

One dead, two wounded after intruders enter National Security Agency, officials say

July 1, 2019 at 3:53 a.m.

A trip that began in Baltimore ended Monday morning with two men dressed as women in a stolen SUV careening toward the entrance to National Security Agency headquarters, where police...

This is a rally in support of Alan Gross of Potomac, who is imprisoned in Cuba.

Alan Gross, nearing 5th anniversary in Cuban prison, says goodbye to wife, daughter

August 18, 2019 at 11:08 p.m.

Three hundred American rabbis have called on President Barack Obama to secure the immediate release of former State Department contractor Alan Gross as family members and advocates expressed growing concern...

rian Vandiver adds a trash bag to a pile during final cleanup Sunday morning after Preakness.

On the day after the race, pace at Pimlico still hectic

June 1, 2019 at 9:18 a.m.

First, the party. Now, the cleanup. Pimlico Race Course, the scene Saturday of the largest crowd in Preakness history, remained a hive of activity Sunday, with hundreds of workers breaking...

Defense attorney Jason Ehrenberg talks to reporters after a judge found his client, Midshipman Joshua Tate, not guilty of sexually assaulting a fellow midshipman at an off-campus party nearly two years ago.

Former Navy football player acquitted in sex assault case

June 29, 2019 at 5:23 p.m.

A former Navy football player was found not guilty Thursday of sexually assaulting a fellow midshipman at an off-campus party in Annapolis two years ago in a case that has...

Similarities seen in leaks by Snowden, Manning

May 30, 2019 at 10:54 p.m.

A young man comes to Maryland, takes some community college classes, uses his computer skills to get a job in which he gains a security clearance. Still in his 20s,...

Ex-CIA worker from Maryland revealed as source of NSA leaks

August 19, 2019 at 9:17 a.m.

A British newspaper has identified a 29-year-old former Marylander as the source of the top secret documents that revealed details of two National Security Agency surveillance programs and revived debate...

NSA surveillance sparks privacy debate

May 30, 2019 at 10:54 p.m.

You make a call from your land line or text a friend from your smartphone. You browse an online retailer for clothing, a book or music; you create a wish...

Sarah Wellington, Brooklyn, "We Will Not Be Silent" language project, holds of signs in support of whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning at a rally outside the gates of Fort Meade.

Bradley Manning’s lawyer calls him young, naive, ‘good-intentioned’

August 21, 2019 at 9:19 p.m.

An Army prosecutor told a military judge Monday that Pfc. Bradley Manning drew on his military training to harvest hundreds of thousands of classified documents from military computers and dump...

Three Naval Academy football players investigated in alleged sexual assault on female midshipman

August 19, 2019 at 9:17 a.m.

The Navy is investigating the alleged sexual assault last year of a female midshipman at the Naval Academy by three members of the football team, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed Friday....

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