Senate Committee Approves Tillerson for Secretary of State (Learn More)

By Nicole Gaouette, CNN Former ExxonMobil chief executive Rex Tillerson won the backing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday to be secretary of state when it voted 11-10 to send his...

FedID 2017 Joins AFCEA’s Homeland Security Conference (Learn More)

The Global Identity Summit is evolving into the Federal Identity Forum & Exposition (FedID 2017). The move bolsters the event as the U.S. federal government’s primary outreach and collaboration-building event with...

NYPD Det. McDonald, Messenger of Forgiveness, Dies at 59 (Video)

By The Daily News NYPD Officer Steven McDonald, left for dead by a teen gunman, never heard the prognosis of his imminent demise. The paralyzed cop miraculously survived for the next three decades,...

FAA Issues General Aviation Medical Rule (BasicMed)

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today issued a final rule (PDF) that allows general aviation pilots to fly without holding an FAA medical certificate as long as they meet certain requirements outlined...

Wasp Amphibious Ready Group Completes Deployment (Video)

More than 4,000 Sailors and Marines from the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed a six-month deployment when the ships arrived at Norfolk Naval Station...

DOJ Collects Over $15.3B in Civil & Criminal Cases in FY2016 (Video)

According to Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, the Justice Department collected more than $15.3 billion in civil and criminal actions in fiscal year (FY) 2016 ending Sept. 30, 2016. The $15,380,130,434 in...

LightCyber Magna Meets PCI DSS for Intrusion Detection (Learn More)

LightCyber, a leading provider of Behavioral Attack Detection solutions, today announced that Qualified Service Assessor (QSA) consulting firm, HALOCK Security Labs, has concluded that the LightCyber Magna™ platform meets the Payment...

FAIR to Lay Out Immigration Reform Blueprint for Trump Transition

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to restore public interest to immigration policy. His initial appointments – including naming Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general – indicate that he intends to make...

Sale of Crime Weapons Fund Over $100k in Safety Gear for KY Police

The latest sale of confiscated weapons has generated $104,392 in grants to purchase body armor vests, service weapons, ammunition and Tasers for budget-strapped law enforcement officers across the state, according to...

Paranoid ISIS Leader ‘Doesn’t Sleep Without his Suicide Bomber Vest’

By Reuters via the Jerusalem Post A few weeks ago, a person inside Mosul began to send text messages to Iraqi military intelligence in...