Manipulating an election doesn’t necessarily mean seizing control of the nation’s voting machines. Suppressing the vote in targeted geographic areas, while also raising doubts about the legitimacy of the results, could be equally, if not more, effective in flipping an American swing state—and nearly unattributable if done right.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) believes at least 12 of its senior officials are potential targets of violent attacks, according to a request for bids reviewed by Quartz.
The US government is promising to buy all leftover face masks and respirators manufacturers may have on hand once the coronavirus scare subsides and demand for them dries up, Quartz has learned.
US president Donald Trump has proclaimed the coronavirus “very much under control.” Still, federal health authorities plan to acquire up to 500 million surgical masks in case he’s wrong.
An ICE immigration detention center in South Florida will soon provide pepper spray to the private contractors who run the facility. Contract guards at Miami’s Krome Service Processing Center, which civil rights groups have criticized for “substandard” conditions and “abuse of power,” were until now prohibited from carrying pepper spray at work.
The Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps all answer to the White House. The National Guard, however, answers to the governor of the state where a unit is based. This has led to vastly different takes on LGBTQ inclusion among the armed forces.
There are few power dynamics more lopsided than the one between a parole officer and a parolee.
A brazen Instagram scam came to an end this week.
In 2017, Antifa, a loose collection of left-leaning militant anti-fascist groups, was blamed by many for a series of violent threats mailed to a Virginia organization that hosts Civil War reenactments, as well as a pipe bomb planted at one of its annual gatherings.
A group of people pretending to be anarchist hackers bent on disrupting the 2020 presidential election gathered early Friday morning in a nondescript hotel conference room in Manchester, New Hampshire. The town of 111,000 was quiet and cold. Blue Öyster Cult had played to a half-empty theater on Main Street the night before.
Two members of the US Army Reserve scammed senior citizens, widows, businesses, and a Marine Corps veterans association over the course of nearly two years, according to a now-unsealed federal complaint.
The self-styled “Kryp+0 K!ng” and his business partner defrauded more than 100 investors, including former professional baseball players, out of at least $7.5 million over the past 18 months, according to a complaint filed in Arizona federal court last week.
US federal agents arrested a Chinese citizen attempting to obtain hundreds of radiation-hardened microchips typically used in satellites and ballistic missile systems as he tried to leave the United States last year, according to court documents obtained by Quartz.
American cities are struggling to pay the bills. Chicago, for one, is facing an $838 million budget deficit. Los Angeles’s budget director predicts an upcoming budget deficit of $200 million to $400 million. Over the next two years, San Francisco expects to be roughly $420 million in the hole. About 600 miles north, the city of Salem, Oregon is more than $16 million short of what it needs.
A Virginia man helped bilk the US Navy out of nearly $200,000 by setting up a sham company to sell the service nonexistent training devices, say federal prosecutors.
Vehicles rented by the US Secret Service to shuttle Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and advisor, around Davos will add another $34,000 to the cost of the administration’s two-day trip to this year’s World Economic Forum, helping nudge the total price tag past $4 million.
As of now, US president Donald Trump’s two-day jaunt to the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is set to cost US taxpayers at least $3.4 million, for car rentals and hotel rooms, according to a Quartz analysis of federal filings. Last year’s trip, which Trump canceled at the last minute amid a partial government shutdown, was set to hit $3.6 million but still cost around $3.2 million in unused hotel rooms and rental cars.
Last spring, the Pentagon spent more than $165,000 on a set of sophisticated radio antennas for a contingent of elite Navy SEALs. Unfortunately, they were cheap knockoffs, courtesy of a California vendor apparently looking to secure some extra profit.
JK fell in love the old-fashioned way—she met someone in real life. The relationship would fall apart spectacularly, though, in the digital realm.
A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) radio tower near the Texas-Mexico border has become home to some 300 vultures, which have coated the structure’s entire surface, both inside and out, as well as the ground below, in “droppings mixed with urine,” according to a request for information the agency issued to vendors this week.
The FBI arrested two Chinese nationals over the weekend for illegally photographing a US Navy base in Florida, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court. It was the second Chinese surveillance operation authorities uncovered in less than two weeks, both on the grounds of Naval Air Station Key West.
American citizens of Iranian descent were detained over the weekend at the US-Canada border near Blaine, Washington, according to a woman who was among those held by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Videos posted to YouTube threatening a US Circuit Court judge and a deputy US marshal have landed a Rhode Island man in federal custody.
On June 28, 2019, Qingshan Li landed in Southern California on a flight from China. Li, a Chinese national visiting the US on a tourist visa, was scheduled to return home 10 days later.
