Fortune -by Clay Dillow

Encrypted communication for the modern terrorist.

The Islamic State has long relied on messaging apps like Facebook’s FB -4.16% What’sApp, Telegram, and Twitter TWTR -8.66% direct messaging to communicate and distribute propaganda. Now, online counterterrorism outfit Ghost Security Group claims ISIS has built its own Android-based, encrypted messaging app that circumvents conventional messaging apps like WhatsApp that are easier for the F.B.I. to monitor.   Continue reading “ISIS Has Its Own Secure Messaging App”

CBS Denver

DENVER (CBS4)– A Greyhound bus bound for Denver made a pit stop at a motel in Kansas so the driver could rest. The catch– the passengers on board had no idea where he was going or for how long.

The driver left dozens of passengers stranded on the bus for hours outside the La Quinta motel in Salina, Kan. while he went inside to catch up on some sleep.
Continue reading “Greyhound Driver Stops At Motel To Rest With Bus Full Of Passengers”

CBC News

About 42 kilometres from Los Angeles, above the houses nestled in the mountains of Porter Ranch, Calif., a plume of methane is shooting into the sky. The cloud is invisible but it stretches for kilometres, as though a forest fire has been continually burning for months. All of this is emanating from a tiny pipe about 20 centimetres wide, more than a kilometre underground.

“The amount of methane and natural gas that’s coming out of the Aliso Canyon Facility really is probably one of the largest volumes of gas ever recorded from a single leak,” says Tim O’Connor, an oil and gas specialist with the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).    Continue reading “Methane leak in California a ‘major catastrophe’”

CBS News – by Mike DeNardo

HADDON HEIGHTS, N.J. (CBS) —  Students at a Haddon Heights Elementary School are getting a real-life lesson in Constitutional law.

Staffers at Glenview Elementary School say it became a daily ritual for students to say “God bless America” after the morning recital of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Continue reading “New Jersey School Skips Legal Battle, Will No Longer Recite “God Bless America””

The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause

After the San Bernardino shooting, the most pressing issue for progressives was closing the gun “loophole” that allows suspected terrorists to buy firearms. Specifically, they seem to think that people who have been flagged by the government, and placed on the no fly list, should also be prevented from buying a gun. At first glance it makes sense. After all, why should suspected terrorists ever be allowed to buy a weapon?

However, it stops making sense the moment you take a look at what the no fly list is, and what it entails. It also completely ignores the idea that people should never be punished for crimes they haven’t committed.   Continue reading “No Crime. No Trial. No Reason: The Precedent is Set for Gun Confiscations”

PC World – by John Ribeiro

Hyatt Hotels has asked customers to review their payment card account statements closely, after it detected malware on the computers that run its payment-processing systems at locations it manages.

The hotel chain did not provide more details on the breach, including the number of customers that might have been affected, but it appears from the alert to customers that hackers may have obtained critical credit card information.   Continue reading “Hyatt Hotels says payment-processing systems hit by malware”

Yahoo News

Berlin (AFP) – The Islamic State group may have stolen “tens of thousands” of blank passports that it could use to smuggle its fighters into Europe as refugees, a German newspaper reported Sunday.

The Welt am Sonntag cited Western intelligence sources as saying that IS could have acquired the stolen travel documents in areas of Syria, Iraq and Libya it now controls.   Continue reading “IS jihadists stole ‘tens of thousands’ of blank passports: report”

Breitbart – by Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM – There is a risk that Middle Eastern refugees entering the   U.​S​.​ could be infected with a flesh-eating disease that is sweeping across Syria.

Health agencies confirmed that Syrian refugees have transported leishmaniasis to Lebanon and Turkey, where it has been difficult to manage and treat.   Continue reading “Syrian Refugees Bringing Flesh-Eating Disease into U.S.?”

ABC News 7

Five elementary school children from Clifton, N.J., have been arrested for allegedly planning to set off an explosive device at the high school.

The kids, ages 10 and 11, are fifth-graders from Clifton Elementary School #11.

Police said they were allegedly planning to set-off an explosive device at an assembly being held at Clifton High School Wednesday.   Continue reading “5 elementary school kids arrested after allegedly planning to blow up Clifton, NJ, high school, police say”

The Hill – by Sarah Ferris

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare on Tuesday said he regretted the decision to enter the ObamaCare marketplace last year, which the company says has resulted in millions of dollars in losses.

“It was for us a bad decision,” UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley said at an investors’ meeting in New York, according to Bloomberg Business.   Continue reading “UnitedHealth CEO regrets entering ObamaCare”

Fox News

New Orleans police announced Saturday they have arrested one of the suspects wanted in a park shooting that injured at least 17 people Sunday.

Joseph “Moe” Allen, 32, was taken into custody after turning himself in Saturday, according to WVUE. Detectives named Allen as a suspect Friday and he’s believed to be one of several people involved in the shooting at Bunny Friend Park.   Continue reading “One suspect arrested in New Orleans park shooting”

DW

“We have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period,” Obama said Saturday in a statement. “Enough is enough.”

One police officer from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and two civilians were killed and nine people were injured, including five police officers, after a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday.   Continue reading “Obama says US has to ‘do something’ about guns after Colorado gunman identified”

Breitbart – by Caroline May

The Obama administration has warned states to comply with federal efforts to resettle Syrian refugees in communities around the U.S. or else find their states subject to enforcement action.

In a letter this week, the Office of Refugee Resettlement threatens states concerned about resettling Syrians with punitive responses if they refuse to accept the refugees. ORR explains that states may not refuse ORR-funded benefits for refugees on the basis of religion and national origin.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Threatens States to Admit Syrian Refugees or Face ‘Enforcement Action’”

Washington Post

A suspect is in police custody following an hours-long ordeal at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo., where at least five police officers and six civilians were injured in a shooting Friday.

“The perpetrator is in custody,” Mayor John Suthers declared just after 5 p.m. local time — more than five hours after an active shooter was first reported at the health-care clinic.

Police were still trying to determine the gunman’s identity — and his motive — following his capture at the clinic.   Continue reading “Suspect surrenders following shootings at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs”

Huffington Post – by Carla Herreria

Hawaii’s Department of Health announced Thursday that the National Guard will be assisting the agency in a “support” role after 79 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed on the Big Island since Sept. 11.

So far, the National Guard’s involvement has been small, according to Hawaii News Now, and has included flying mosquito sprayers from Oahu to the Big Island.   Continue reading “Hawaii Calls In National Guard As Dengue Fever Outbreak Grows”

ABC News 7

NEW YORK — A Pakistani man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a failed al-Qaida bomb plot on the New York City subway.

A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted Abid Naseer in March following a trial that featured spies in disguise, evidence from the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound and the defendant’s questioning of an admitted co-conspirator.   Continue reading “Pakistani Man Abid Naseer Gets 40 Years in Al-Qaida Plot to Bomb NYC Subway”

ZD Net – by Zack Whittaker

Amazon has force-reset an unknown number of accounts, after passwords may have been compromised.

A number of readers told ZDNet they received an email from Amazon saying the company has reset their account password. The message was also sent to their account message center on Amazon.com, and Amazon.co.uk, confirming the message is genuine.   Continue reading “Amazon force-resets some account passwords, citing password leak”