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The 'Occupy' movement is scrambling to distance itself from five men charged with plotting to blow up a bridge near Cleveland, but critics say the group can't so easily disavow violence inspired by its leaders' fiery rhetoric.
U.S. Secret Service employees tied to last month’s night of heavy drinking, partying and sexual encounters in Cartagena, Colombia, paid nine of the 12 women they met with that night, according to new information provided to congressional offices.
None of the 12 Colombian prostitutes being investigated in the Secret Service scandal were part of a drug or “terrorist organization,” Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told POLITICO Wednesday morning.
The Secret Service is poring over interviews with 10 of 12 women involved in the Colombia prostitution scandal and so far there's no indication that any posed a national security threat, a House committee chairman said Tuesday.
House Homeland Security Committee Peter King said in an interview that the Secret Service was still translating the interviews.
May will be a crucial month for a stalled federal transportation bill that would give Nassau and Suffolk commuters a tax break, fund critical capacity improvements on the LIRR and make dangerous Long Island roads safer, Sen. Charles Schumer said Monday.
It was the daring raid that was nearly 10 years in the making — and could shape the next four.
Twelve months ago, top secret helicopters carrying dozens of Navy SEALs launched into the Pakistan night, set to deliver vengeance to the man behind America’s darkest day.
The United States Secret Service is tightening internal personnel rules in the wake of an expanding prostitution investigation into the conduct of agents abroad, the agency announced Friday.
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to shake the disgrace of a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service late Friday tightened conduct rules for its agents to prohibit them from drinking excessively, visiting disreputable establishments while traveling or bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms.
A year after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama’s team is launching another precision operation: a full-scale public relations offensive aimed at using the bin Laden mission to boost the president’s reelection bid.
He puts the ass in ambassador.
Colombia’s angry top diplomat to America wants President Obama to publicly declare that he’s really, really, really sorry for the carnal carnage inflicted on the fine citizens of Cartagena by the Secret Service.