Tag: David Brown

National Security

Pentagon adds sexual orientation to employee protection rules

David Brown · June 9, 2015 6:13 pm

Army Secretary John M. McHugh updates members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 3, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Army secretary stepping down in November

David Brown · June 8, 2015 3:41 pm

The Islamic State has set up a caliphate in a large swath of Iraq and a part of Syria since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. (Militant website via AP)

National Security

ISIS ‘moron’ selfie leads to airstrike

David Brown · June 4, 2015 9:53 pm

In this May 11, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. acknowledges a cheering crowd as he introduced at a town hall meeting at the Loins Club hall with area residents, in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

National Security

Rand Paul win doesn’t mean NSA spying ends, experts say

David Brown · May 31, 2015 11:27 pm

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Steve Baluyot of the Biological Defense Research Directorate Naval Medical Research Center in Bethesda, Md., loads unknown samples into capillary tubes for a Rugidized Advance Pathogen Identification Device analysis October 25, 2001 at the New York Department of Health, Public Health Laboratories, in New York, N.Y. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Jim Varhegyi/Getty Images)

National Security

Military lab accidentally ships live anthrax samples

David Brown · May 27, 2015 9:11 pm

Smoke rises behind archaeological ruins in Palmyra, Syria. The video released by a media arm of the Islamic State group purportedly showed the archaeological ruins of Palmyra apparently undamaged. (Militant video via AP)

National Security

ISIS hasn’t destroyed Palmyra yet, artifacts chief says

David Brown · May 27, 2015 2:09 pm

State Department spokesperson Marie Harf conducts a daily press briefing at the State Department April 8, 2015 in Washington. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

State Dept. denies Iran leader’s claim over inspections

David Brown · May 21, 2015 7:52 pm