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FBI: No credible threats to US from Islamic State

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FBI: No credible threats to US from Islamic State

Eileen Sullivan · August 22, 2014 6:22 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, file photo, police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer on Aug. 9, in Ferguson, Mo. The national legal standards that govern when police officers are justified using force against people trace their lineage to a 1984 case from Charlotte, N.C. Brown's shooting has prompted multiple investigations and triggered days of rioting reflecting long-simmering racial tensions in a town of mostly black residents and a majority white police force. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Supreme Court case to shape Ferguson investigation

Eileen Sullivan · August 22, 2014 8:25 am

This photo taken in 2011 shows Abe Mashal posing for a photo at his home in St. Charles, Ill. The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel. One of the plaintiffs in the Portland lawsuit, Abe Mashal, was unable to print his boarding pass before a flight out of Chicago four years ago. A counter representative told him he was on the no-fly list and would not be allowed to board. Mashal was surrounded by about 30 law enforcement officials, he said. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT,

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No-fly list rules get changes

Eileen Sullivan · August 20, 2014 7:06 am

This photo taken in 2011 shows Abe Mashal posing for a photo at his home in St. Charles, Ill. The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel. One of the plaintiffs in the Portland lawsuit, Abe Mashal, was unable to print his boarding pass before a flight out of Chicago four years ago. A counter representative told him he was on the no-fly list and would not be allowed to board. Mashal was surrounded by about 30 law enforcement officials, he said. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT,

AP Exclusive: US changing no-fly list rules

Eileen Sullivan · August 19, 2014 11:56 pm

This photo taken in 2011 shows Abe Mashal posing for a photo at his home in St. Charles, Ill. The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel. One of the plaintiffs in the Portland lawsuit, Abe Mashal, was unable to print his boarding pass before a flight out of Chicago four years ago. A counter representative told him he was on the no-fly list and would not be allowed to board. Mashal was surrounded by about 30 law enforcement officials, he said. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT,

AP Exclusive: US changing no-fly list rules

Eileen Sullivan · August 19, 2014 10:33 pm

This photo taken in 2011 shows Abe Mashal posing for a photo at his home in St. Charles, Ill. The Obama administration is promising to change the way travelers can ask to be removed from its no-fly list of suspected terrorists banned from air travel. One of the plaintiffs in the Portland lawsuit, Abe Mashal, was unable to print his boarding pass before a flight out of Chicago four years ago. A counter representative told him he was on the no-fly list and would not be allowed to board. Mashal was surrounded by about 30 law enforcement officials, he said. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT,

US changing no-fly list rules

Eileen Sullivan · August 19, 2014 7:16 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) shows the a box a redacted files with names of suspected terrorists. Decades ago, names of suspected terrorists were kept in a rolodex and in notebooks, according to redacted government photographs. The Associated Press has learned that a U.S. government database of known or suspected terrorists doubled in size in recent years. The National Counterterrorism Center says there were 1.1 million people in the database at the end of 2013. Of those, 25,000 are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. There were about 550,000 people in the database in March 2010. The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, called "TIDE," is a huge, classified database of people who are known to be terrorists, are suspected of having ties to terrorism, or in some cases related to or are associates of known or suspected terrorists. It feeds to smaller lists that restrict peoples' abilities to travel on commercial airlines to or within the U.S. (AP Photo/NCTC)

National Security

US terrorism database doubles in recent years

Eileen Sullivan · August 5, 2014 9:40 pm

Some US-bound air travelers must turn on phones

Eileen Sullivan · July 7, 2014 6:49 pm

Archivist: IRS didn’t follow law with lost emails

Eileen Sullivan · June 25, 2014 12:41 am

Press materials are displayed on a table of the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, before Attorney General Eric Holder was to speak at a news conference. Holder was announcing that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Guide to US allegations of China cyberspying

Eileen Sullivan · May 20, 2014 5:37 pm

House committees pass bill on NSA surveillance

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House committees pass bill on NSA surveillance

Eileen Sullivan · May 8, 2014 8:20 pm

White House: Discrimination potential in data use

Eileen Sullivan · April 26, 2014 12:51 pm