The CEO of an unidentified Swiss company was scammed out of nearly $1 million by a multinational fraud ring, according to a criminal complaint unsealed last week in federal court. The executive, who is identified in the filing only as “S.K.,” was in the process of buying a piece of beachfront property in Belize.
Nearly eight months after US president Donald Trump issued an edict to “restore integrity” to the American immigration system, authorities are attempting to make it more difficult for asylum seekers to earn a living.
In February 2009, Lauren Lollini, a psychotherapist from Colorado, had a kidney stone removed at Rose Medical Center in Denver. It was a routine procedure, but for weeks after her surgery, Lollini experienced flu-like symptoms, including nausea and extreme fatigue. When she went back to the hospital to find out what was going on, doctors diagnosed her with Hepatitis C, a tough-to-treat liver infection that is most often spread among intravenous drug users who share needles.
A team of hackers last week squared off against the US Secret Service, the FBI, agents from the Department of Homeland Security, and officers from the Arlington, Virginia police department in a simulated 2020 national election. According to a debriefing document shared with Quartz, the imaginary 16-hour day ended in abject chaos.
The US government regulates everyday consumer products more tightly than it does the nation’s voting systems, which means things such as balloons, colored pencils, and hair dryers—and the companies that make them—are subject to stricter federal oversight than America’s election infrastructure.
Weapons built by defense manufacturers that can think for themselves are getting smarter, which mean the much-feared killer robot could be a reality sooner than later. That’s the warning contained in a new report from Pax, a nonprofit based in the Netherlands that campaigns for peace around the world.
US president Donald Trump will be receiving a special gift from Berlin residents on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—a 2.7-ton section of the wall itself.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expects to have face, fingerprint, and iris scans of at least 259 million people in its biometrics database by 2022, according to a recent presentation from the agency’s Office of Procurement Operations reviewed by Quartz.
Less than a week after reports emerged that new sections of US president Donald Trump’s signature border wall have been repeatedly breached by smugglers using inexpensive power tools, the federal government announced it is seeking teams of “quality assurance” personnel to oversee the next phase of construction.
Law enforcement suicides in the United States have surpassed line of duty deaths in recent years. There have been 14 reported police suicides this month alone.
Most of us think of the internet as existing “virtually,” yet cyberspace requires a physical infrastructure that is mostly hidden from view. And it requires workers to go under city streets to tie things together.
Criminal misconduct by US border officers has reached a five-year high, according to an internal US government report obtained exclusively by Quartz. The offenses range from fraud to capital murder.
US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner plan to attend this year’s “Davos in the Desert,” a Saudi Arabian economic conference the US and many others skipped last year after Saudi security agents murdered Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.
The South Korean operator of the world’s largest dark web child pornography file-sharing site has been indicted by US prosecutors, according to documents unsealed yesterday in federal court.
On a sunny Monday morning earlier this month, about two dozen people dressed in white gathered at a meeting spot near New York’s Grand Central station. The operation had been carefully planned and organized by Essam Attia, a street artist and former soldier.
An IRS employee stole multiple people’s identities, and used them to open illicit credit cards to fund vacations and shop for shoes and other goods, according to a complaint unsealed last week in federal court.
US defense leaders recognize the threat of climate change, even if their commander-in-chief doesn’t.
The idea that technology will eventually surpass human intelligence and that humans will then lose control of it is called “the singularity.” The term originates from a 1993 essay by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge titled, “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era.”
On Tuesday, Sept. 10, the Total Choice Credit Union in Laplace, Louisiana was robbed.
The US Justice Department’s inspector general has found that the agency in charge of preventing drug misuse and diversion failed to stop either as the American opioid epidemic worsened.
A San Francisco tour guide with a background in mechanical engineering and acupuncture has been charged with being a Chinese government agent, allegedly passing classified information regarding US national security to China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). The operation hinged on an unidentified double agent working with the FBI, which tracked Xuehua “Edward” Peng, a naturalized US citizen, for at least four years, according to a complaint unsealed today in federal court.
Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an armed drone attack early today (Sept. 14) on Saudi Aramco’s Abqaiq refinery, the world’s largest oil processing facility. The rebels also hit the Khurais oil field, a major site operated by Saudi Aramco. Both attacks sparked massive fires that could be seen from outer space.
People staying near Beijing’s Tiananmen Square are being forced to remain inside their hotels for two 12-hour stretches this weekend so the Chinese military can practice for an upcoming parade that will celebrate seven decades of Communist rule.
Donald Trump’s acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, appears to be hiding something. Congressman Adam Schiff wants to know what it is.
