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Kelly Wiese
Missouri’s basic plan for handling a catastrophe is sufficient, according to a federal security analysis released Friday, but several areas still need some work.
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Brad Branan
The state auditor and a lawmaker from Tucson are questioning the supervision and use of federal homeland security funds in Pima County. The grant funds have been spent on computers for Pima County park patrol cars, biohazard suits for Pima Community College police and Neighborhood Watch signs for Tucson, among other things.
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Michael McAuliff
Al Qaeda decided not to launch a deadly cyanide gas plot in New York’s subways because it wouldn’t have killed enough people, according to the author whose bombshell book revealed the frightening scheme.
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Richard Pyle,
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - A reported plot by al-Qaida terrorists to kill thousands of New Yorkers by spreading cyanide gas in the subway underscores the folly of a Homeland Security Department cutback of funds for major cities, a Democratic lawmaker said Sunday.
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Shaun Waterman,
UPI HOMELAND & NATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR
The Chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee said Sunday that reports of a planned cyanide gas attack on the New York subway system showed the need for continued warrantless surveillance of suspected terrorists.
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NEARLY FIVE years into a war between the United States and Islamic extremists, U.S. policies and practices for arresting, holding, interrogating and trying enemy militants are in a state of disarray unprecedented in modern American history. They shame the nation and violate its fundamental values.
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Farah Stockman & Declan Walsh
GARDEZ, Afghanistan — The US government routinely failed to give detainees at Guantanamo Bay access to witnesses who might have helped them prove their assertions of innocence, saying it could not locate the vast majority of the witnesses the terror suspects requested at special military hearings.
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Jane Sutton
MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Monday put off hearings in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals at least until July, meaning they will not reconvene until after an expected ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on their legitimacy.
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Bob Dart
WASHINGTON — Disappointed that a grand jury declined to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney, police labor officials will ask the House ethics committee to consider taking action against her for allegedly striking a Capitol police officer in March, union officials said Monday.
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TALLAHASSEE - Emergency responders from 12 states came to Florida on Monday to learn how experts here handle disasters.From states as near as Georgia and as far away as Washington, participants echoed the same sentiment: Florida does disaster response right, and they want to know the secret.
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Michael Zennie
Fort Wayne public safety officials recommended Thursday that residents not buy fireworks this summer, despite a new law that allows fireworks to be set off and provides money for firefighter training.
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Ann Imse
Last January, Colorado’s top emergency planners gathered to decide what are the most likely disasters to befall the state.
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Martin Kasindorf

Mary Scott Nabers,

Mike Lee
While U.S. politicians debate how best to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the border, huge holes plague America’s system for counting and inspecting toxic waste migrating north from Mexico.
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Elliot Spagat
SAN DIEGO - Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city’s Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald’s has dropped by half. The sidewalks are quieter.
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Bernd Debusmann
BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) — At first glance, the arithmetic looks alarming. The U.S.-Canada border runs for 4,000 miles across some of the most remote and rugged territory on the planet. Some 1,000 border patrol agents must secure it.
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Noel Cisneros
It’s been nearly five years since 9/11, and most agree this country is still vulnerable to another major terror attack. On Monday, San Francisco takes steps to plug one of the biggest holes — air cargo security.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission vowed on Monday to take swift action to safeguard an anti-terrorism measure requiring EU states to supply advance details of passengers heading to U.S. airports.
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A belt buckle resembling a hand grenade caused the evacuation of part of a terminal at Salt Lake City International Airport on Monday, officials said.
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