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BY KARLYN BOWMAN It’s a safe bet that the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl wasn’t on Americans’ radar screens until the bullets started flying and Russian forces captured the plant on February 24. A training […]

Dozens of Afghan refugees released in the U.S. have Pentagon records that “indicate potentially significant security concerns,” according to a new federal audit that reveals the multi-agency intelligence conglomerate created after 9/11 to protect the nation from […]

The Homeland Security agency created after the 2001 terrorist attacks to protect the nation’s transportation system has been quite busy investigating and fining travelers who do not wear masks to supposedly slow the spread of […]

The U.S. government is spending north of $2 million to research if a costly, decade-old Latin American gang prevention initiative is working. Since 2010 Uncle Sam has funded a program called Gang Resistance Education and Training […]

A Bangladeshi man based in Mexico has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for operating an “international human smuggling conspiracy” during a period in which the U.S. saw a spike in migrants from terrorist nations entering […]