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Balancing cybersecurity and privacy
From the assembly lines of Detroit to the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the oil fields of Houston, our country has been built by an entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation. And despite our recent economic challenges, that spirit is alive and well....
Tags: Science, Facebook, National Security Agency, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Preventative Medicine
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NBC News 'Situation Room' special: The upside of sucking up to White House
The Baltimore SunNBC News announced Friday that Brian Williams' ratings-impaired, journalistically-challenged "Rock Center" newsmagazine will have a report on what it was like inside the Situation Room on the night Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals. I guess...Tags: Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Navy, Osama bin Laden, Brian Williams, Hillary Clinton
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Baltimore, other cities battle federal security funding plan
Local homeland security officials in Baltimore and across the country are fighting a proposal to change how $2 billion in federal emergency management money is distributed — a change they say would jeopardize regional efforts to respond to terrorist...Tags: Emergency Planning, Thurgood Marshall, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Tampa, Anne Arundel County
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The GOP's spendthrift ways
There's a tendency among some to shorthand the ongoing federal budget debate as between Republicans who want to reduce government spending and Democrats who don't. This isn't really the case, as recent actions in the House have demonstrated. On...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Budgets and Budgeting, Paul Ryan, Parties and Movements
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Counterfeit items seized at flea market worth $47.3M
Last month's raid on the Patapsco Flea Market in Southwest Baltimore netted $47.3 million worth of counterfeit luxury goods, the largest seizure at a flea market in the United States, federal authorities announced Thursday. U.S. Immigration and Customs...
Tags: Lawyers, Luxury Goods Industry, Sony Corp., Immigration, Under Armour Inc.
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Invasive beetle found in cumin shipment bound for McCormick
A shipment of Indian cumin seed contaminated with the larvae of a dead Khapra beetle, an invasive insect, never made it to McCormick & Co.'s Hunt Valley facility and was to be sent back to India, the spice maker said Tuesday. U.S. Customs and Border...Tags: Hunt Valley, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Industry, Port of Baltimore, India
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Homeland security has more urgent tasks than finding than counterfeits
I now fell much safer knowing that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations authorities have captured the flea market gang that was threatening our country with phony merchandise ("Counterfeits long suspected at market,"...Tags: Glen Burnie, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants
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Two on terrorist watch list stopped in Laurel in 2011
Two individuals on a federal terrorist watch list were stopped in a vehicle by Laurel police at some point in 2011, then allowed to leave based on directives from officials at the federal Department of Homeland Security, according to Laurel police and...Tags: Terrorism, Islam, Osama bin Laden, Interior Policy, American Civil Liberties Union
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Blank check for the military will send America the way of the Soviet Union
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many strategists suggested that the Cold War arms race had bankrupted its economy and caused its downfall. More than 20 years later, it appears that some in Washington are driving the U.S. toward a similar fate....
Tags: Weaponry, Budgets and Budgeting, Paul Ryan, Armed Forces, Russia
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Northrop Grumman to lay off at Fort Meade, elsewhere
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. warned state regulators Friday that it will be laying off 224 employees across the country, including dozens based at Fort Meade, after losing a contract to provide security for a government agency. But a...Tags: Northrop Grumman Corporation, National Security Agency, Aerospace Manufacturing, Fort Meade (military base), Manufacturing and Engineering
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Md. Democrats balk at bipartisan tax deal
All but one Maryland Democrat in Congress bucked party leaders Friday to vote against extending a nationwide payroll tax break through the end of the year, most of them because of a requirement that newly hired federal workers contribute more to their...Tags: Employment, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, National Security Agency, National Institutes of Health, Labor Legislation
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Traffic: Accident on Route 27 at Twin Arch Road
As of 8 a.m., Maryland Route 27 in Carroll County remains shut down in both directions at Twin Arch Road due to an accident involving two vehicles.
Maryland Route 295 southbound is reopen after briefly being closed early Monday morning due to an accident...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Traffic, National Security Agency, Carroll County (Maryland)
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