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Republican Rep. David Brat is currently in his first term representing the 7th district of Virginia. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Rep. Dave Brat: ‘The American people are waking up’

Rudy Takala · February 7, 2016 5:01 am

Rubio: Biden has been around ‘a thousand years’

Rubio: Biden has been around ‘a thousand years’

Rudy Takala · February 7, 2016 1:52 am

A total of 1,058 expatriated in the fourth quarter of the year, bringing the annual number to a record 4,279. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

National Security

Exodus: Record number of Americans renounce citizenship

Rudy Takala · February 6, 2016 7:14 pm

NASA defenders walk back denial of hack on agency

Rudy Takala · February 5, 2016 9:47 pm

"Since the middle of 2015 alone, we've suspended over 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS," Twitter said in a statement. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)

National Security

Twitter reveals aggressive war on Islamic State accounts

Rudy Takala · February 5, 2016 9:13 pm

"At this time, it is difficult to know exactly how this voluminous amount of information might be leveraged in the future," CrowdStrike wrote about information obtained from a hack linked to the Chinese. (AP Photo)

National Security

Report: China may be building massive database on Americans

Rudy Takala · February 5, 2016 6:38 pm

Oversight chair calls IRS system outage a possible hack

Oversight chair calls IRS system outage a possible hack

Rudy Takala · February 4, 2016 10:02 pm

Sen. Ron Johnson said, "What I've been suggesting is, assemble a coalition of the willing, like George H.W. Bush did in the first Gulf War." (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Lawmaker wants briefing on OPM hack damage

Rudy Takala · February 4, 2016 6:04 pm

"We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear," the company said in a statement. "We have remediated the situation and have no reason to believe that customer information was accessed by any unauthorized person." (Mattel via AP)

Software flaw exposed ‘smart’ teddy bears to hackers

Rudy Takala · February 3, 2016 7:08 pm

"NASA has no evidence to indicate the alleged hacked data are anything other than already publicly available data," NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said in a statement. (AP Photo)

NASA denies that its drone was hacked

Rudy Takala · February 3, 2016 3:11 pm

The movement for reform follows a 2015 report by HUD's inspector general that found more than 25,000 families earn too much to qualify for housing assistance. (AP Photo)

Feds consider whether to cut thousands from housing assistance

Rudy Takala · February 2, 2016 9:49 pm

The agency saw cyber standards fall when agencies were supposed to be ramping up protection from hackers. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

GOP: Dept. of Education data hack could dwarf OPM breach

Rudy Takala · February 2, 2016 6:07 pm