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A portion of the pres­id­en­tial emer­gency action docu­ments, or PEAD—wide-ranging powers granted to the executive branch during times of emergency—have been disclosed using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), shedding ...

Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers used fake online personas to monitor social media users, and, at one ...

President Barack Obama hopes to enlist Muslim communities in preventing people from radicalizing and adopting extremist ideology.

NEW YORK—During the 2013 City Council elections, there was more money spent on independent mailers than all of ...