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Smart TV: The industry push to keep getting smarter

2013-05-17 08:00:00

For decades we've been watching TV. Now a new generation of televisions is beginning to watch us. Technological advances are giving the old clunky "boob tube" an I.Q. injection. Some of the new breed of smart TVs comes equipped with facial recognition...

Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting

2013-05-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...

Republicans demand changes in Senate immigration bill

2013-05-07 19:34:00

WASHINGTON — As a sweeping immigration bill moves forward in the Senate, Republicans are demanding stronger border security measures than those agreed upon during four months of bipartisan negotiation. The process of toughening the bill could...

Houston airport gunman left note citing 'monster within me'

2013-05-03 15:20:00

Just before pulling the pistol he would use to shoot himself at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Carnell Moore apparently tried to keep bystanders out of harm’s way, authorities said. In a suicide note quoted by authorities Friday,...

Political calculus keeps Cuba on U.S. list of terror sponsors

2013-05-03 05:00:00

Cuba’s communist leadership was quick to send condolences to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and to reiterate to Washington that it “rejects and condemns unequivocally all acts of terrorism.” Once a key supplier of arms and...

Terror database too vague to flag Boston suspect

2013-05-02 17:20:00

WASHINGTON — When a Russian intelligence service told the CIA that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become an Islamic radical looking to join underground groups, the agency put his name in the government's catch-all database for terrorism suspects. The...

U.S. government begins intelligence review in Boston bombing case

2013-04-30 18:58:00

WASHINGTON — The CIA and departments of Justice and Homeland Security have begun a high-level internal review of whether intelligence was mishandled prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, though President Obama and his top advisors said they had...

Officials to review intelligence on Boston bombings

2013-04-30 08:54:00

WASHINGTON – The CIA, Justice Department and Homeland Security Department have launched a high level internal review of whether intelligence was mishandled prior to the bombings of the Boston Marathon, officials said. President Obama told a...

Report warned Boston Marathon was vulnerable to terrorism

2013-05-09 20:46:00

WASHINGTON — Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that homegrown extremists could use "small-scale...

Intelligence report identified vulnerability before Boston bombing

2013-05-09 10:50:00

WASHINGTON -- Five days before two bombs tore through crowds at the Boston Marathon, an intelligence report identified the finish line of the race as an "area of increased vulnerability" and warned Boston police that extremists may use "small scale...

Immigration bill survives first day of debate in Senate committee

2013-05-09 20:25:00

WASHINGTON — After eight hours of debate, the bipartisan Senate immigration bill emerged mostly intact Thursday, despite Republican-led efforts to make substantial alterations in the first of what is certain to be many long committee meetings to...

Houston airport shooting hot topic at NRA convention

2013-05-03 18:46:00

HOUSTON -- When the annual National Rifle Assn. convention opened Friday, the day after an incident in which a gunman died at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, attendees didn't shy away from discussing the incident. In fact, it was a hot topic of...

Department of Homeland Security police officers stand watch outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston on Wednesday.

2013-05-01 00:00:00

This image from a Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security joint bulletin issued to law enforcement and obtained by the Associated Press shows the remains of a pressure cooker that the FBI says was part of one of the bombs that exploded during the Boston Marathon.

2013-04-16 00:00:00

In this undated photo, immigrants walk to hearings at the Stewart Detention Center in Lupmkin, Ga. The Department of Homeland Security recently released 2,228 immigrants from detention centers around the country.

2013-03-24 00:00:00