18 h. ago Secret files and bombshell book that could solve mystery of Jill Dando's murder

Five warnings were issued by UK security officials that Serbia may have been planning revenge covert attacks in Europe in the weeks before Jill Dando was murdered on her doorstep

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33 h. ago Pete Hegseth reportedly had unsecured office internet line to connect to Signal

Defense chief had line set up to bypass official security protocols and use Signal app on personal computer, AP saysPete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, had an unsecured internet connection set up in his Pentagon office so that he could bypass government security protocols and use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, two people familiar with the line told the Associated Press.ABC News also reported that Hegseth had what is known as a “dirty line” – what IT professionals call a commercial internet line that is used to connect to websites blocked by the Pentagon’s unclassified and classified lines. Defense department computers connect to the internet through two different systems: SiprNet – or secure internet protocol router network, which is the Pentagon’s network for classified information – and NiprNet – the non-classified internet protocol router network, which handles unclassified information. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Haiti could face 'total chaos' without more international support, UN envoy warns

The top U_N_ official in Haiti is sounding an alarm to the U_N_ Security Council that escalating gang violence is liable to lead the Caribbean nation to “a point of no return.”

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4 d. ago Homeland Security Secretary Noem's purse stolen at DC restaurant, officials say

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse was stolen at a Washington, D

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9 d. ago Russia strikes Dnipro as Ukrainian officials seek security pledges in Paris

Ukrainian officials say Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing three people including a child and wounding dozens

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9 d. ago UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war

Exclusive: civil servants beef up security rules for sensitive negotiating papers over fears posed by hostile US trade policyUK officials are tightening security when handling sensitive trade documents to prevent them from falling into US hands amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, the Guardian can reveal.In an indication of the strains on the “special relationship”, British civil servants have changed document-handling guidance, adding higher classifications to some trade negotiation documents in order to better shield them from American eyes, sources told the Guardian. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Security review planned for Pennsylvania governor's official residence after arson attack

An independent expert will review security at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's official residence after investigators accused a man of scaling a wall and setting fire to the mansion

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1 week ago Trump officials blocking court testimony from Social Security head over program’s ‘death list’

The request for Dudek to appear came after reports claimed that thousands were being added to the agency’s ‘death master file’ as part of a push for immigrants to ‘self-deport’

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1 week ago Judge rebukes Trump officials for not securing return of wrongly deported man

Administration will have to share under oath how it’s trying to get Kilmar Ábrego García back to US, says district judgeA federal judge sharply rebuked the Trump administration and scolded officials on Tuesday for taking no steps to secure the return of a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, as the US supreme court had ordered in a contentious ruling last week.The US district judge Paula Xinis said that Donald Trump’s news conference with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, where the leaders joked that Kilmar Ábrego García would not be released, did not count as compliance. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Shooting reported at a Dallas high school, and officials soon after say campus secured

School officials in Texas say police have responded to reports of a shooting at a Dallas high school where students were seen leaving the campus

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1 week ago Indonesia dismisses report Russia seeking to base aircraft in country as ‘simply not true’, Australia says

Australian defence minister Richard Marles says he has spoken to Indonesian counterpart about report Moscow filed official request over military aircraftIndonesia’s defence minister has said reports Russia is seeking to base military aircraft in the country “are simply not true”, according to the Australian government, after Canberra made urgent calls to Jakarta.The report from defence and security news website Janes said Moscow had filed an official request with Jakarta for permission for Russian aerospace forces (VKS) aircraft, including several long-range aircraft, to be based at a facility in Biak. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘We will find you’: Massachusetts attorney and US citizen told to self

‘Do not attempt to remain in the United States — the federal government will find you,’ an official email from the Department of Homeland Security read

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2 w. ago ‘Dissent isn’t unlawful’ says former White House official Miles Taylor, now targeted by Trump

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting a former official in his first administration by stripping him of security clearances and ordering the Department of Justice to investigate his conduct, an unprecedented step that erodes decades of separation between the president and the exercise of criminal investigatory power by the federal government.

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2 w. ago New offers for buyouts and early retirement offered to Homeland Security staff

The Department of Homeland Security is offering buyouts and early retirement options to staffers, as officials push forward with efforts to reduce and reshape the federal workforce

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2 w. ago Homeland Security demands private tax data for millions of immigrants so it can find and deport them

Department of Homeland Security officials requested the IRS hand over their names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses, so it can find and deport them.

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2 w. ago Fresh from telling Trump which national security officials to fire, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer reveals her new political wish

‘I really want to work for President Trump. There is honestly nothing I want more than that’

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3 w. ago Trump’s Yemen bombing campaign could cost $1bn by next week, with little to show for it

Trump’s war in Yemen has come under greater scrutiny after his national security officials leaked details of the initial strikes in a group chat with a journalist

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3 w. ago I worked in Trump’s first administration. Here’s why his team is using Signal | Kevin Carroll

Using the platform was dangerous and wrong – but officials appeared to prioritize shielding themselves from litigationNo senior US government official in the now-infamous “Houthi PC Small Group” Signal chat seemed new to that kind of group, nor surprised by the sensitivity of the subject discussed in that insecure forum, not even when the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, chimed in with details of a coming airstrike. No one objected – not the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who was abroad and using her personal cellphone to discuss pending military operations; not even the presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, who was in Moscow at the time. Yet most of these officials enjoy the luxury of access to secure government communications systems 24/7/365.Reasonable conclusions may be drawn from these facts. First, Trump’s national security cabinet commonly discusses secret information on insecure personal devices. Second, sophisticated adversaries such as Russia and China inter...

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3 w. ago Knives out for Mike Waltz as Trump fires national security officials

Maga critics circle around hawkish foreign policy adviser who was at centre of ‘Signalgate’ fiasco

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3 w. ago US and Chinese military officials hold talks on maritime security in bid to lower risks

U.S. and Chinese military officials have met for their first working-level talks since President Donald Trump took office for the second time

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