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Harold Brown & James Schlesinger 

Phillip Messing

New York cops are on the lookout for a deadly weapon right out of a James Bond movie - a rapid-fire pistol disguised as a cellphone, The Post has learned.
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Drew Brown

WASHINGTON - Classified military spending has reached its highest level since 1988, near the end of the Cold War, a new independent analysis has found.
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Daniel Smith

In December 2001, the US Air Force (USAF) dropped the 15,000-pound (6,800-kilogram) “Daisy Cutter” on the cave complex in Afghanistan known as Tora Bora. At the time, this was the largest bomb in the US arsenal.
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James Rainey

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military is deploying a laser device in Iraq that would temporarily blind drivers who fail to heed warnings at checkpoints, in an attempt to stem shootings of innocent Iraqis. The pilot project will equip thousands of M-4 rifles with the 10 1/2 -inch-long weapon, which projects an intense beam of green light to “dazzle” the vision of oncoming drivers.
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Sarah D. Scalet

Ask Google anything—what’s happening to GE’s stock price, how to get to 881 Seventh Ave. in New York, where Mission Impossible 3 is showing, whatever happened to Brian W. after he moved away in the ninth grade—and you’ll get an answer.
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Joshua Sinai

As today’s generation of terrorists are ferociously hunted by counterterrorist organizations, they possess a distinct advantage that their older predecessors lacked: access to computers, the worldwide Internet and cyberspace’s myriad technological benefits in conducting communications and warfare.
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Chris Reinyolds

A ninth-grader at a private school in Fairburn has been arrested after he allegedly brought a bomb to school. The Landmark Christian School student, whom police did not identify, has been charged with bringing an explosive device on campus. If convicted, he faces fines of up to $20,000 and jail time, said Fairburn Police Capt. J.T. Rogers. The boy was released to his parents.
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PAUL SHUKOVSKY

Terrorist violence is sweeping across the Puget Sound area today. Fortunately, it’s virtual violence — simulations designed to hone the skills of 24 federal, state and local agencies to respond to the real thing.
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Now I freely admit that I am not the sharpest blade in the knife drawer when it comes to matters of money. Actually, I am not the sharpest blade in the knife drawer when it comes to a lot of things, but the subject for the moment is money.
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Justin Berton

Over the past 12 years, Melissa Gira has cultivated a daily audience of 4,000 strangers, whom she lets watch her most intimate moments on her Web site. They have watched her wake up and recall her dreams, and they have watched her suffer through breakups. In more recent years, some have paid hourly fees to watch her perform “digital sex.”
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Jeremy Pelofsky

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission will not pursue complaints about a U.S. spy agency’s access to millions of telephone records because it cannot obtain classified material, the FCC chairman said in a letter released on Tuesday.
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A $4 million price tag to evacuate pets in an emergency is too high, officials said Monday. That’s because the estimate is based on the numbers of animals evacuated post-Katrina, and most people won’t leave their pets behind again, legislators and administration officials agreed.
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Bill Swindell,
CONGRESS DAILY

Johnathan Marino

At a briefing Tuesday, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Homeland Security Department officials said that with better planning, they expect a more coordinated response than ever to storms during the upcoming hurricane season.
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Disaster preparedness is up slightly among U.S. citizens this year but is not a high priority overall, a poll published Tuesday by the American Red Cross shows. While 70 percent of 1,000 people polled said they were somewhat prepared, the poll shows most people lack basic steps in their family disaster plan.
More @ The Washington Times
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ALICIA A. CALDWELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS, N.M.- President’s Bush announcement that he was going to beef up enforcement of immigration laws was met with a weary sigh by the new police chief of this little border village of about 1,800.
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Illegal immigrants are flooding into the USA, with an estimated 12 million calling this country home. Congress and the president are struggling to craft meaningful reform; in an age of terrorism, a porous border is a clear vulnerability.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

While debates rage about why more buildings haven’t gone up at the World Trade Center site, there is one, shrouded in a web of black netting and full of trade center dust, that can’t seem to come down.
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NEW YORK (AP) _ Fewer than 15,000 of the millions of New Yorkers who filed tax returns this year checked off a box to make a voluntary donation to the World Trade Center Memorial fund, state officials said. The program raised $150,085 for the memorial fund, according to the Department of Taxation and Finance.
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