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Top US spy-catcher: The alarm is 'blinking faster and brighter' 02/11/2020 05:41am • On July 18, 2018, Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence, compared the cyber threat the U.S. faced to the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks. "Here we are nearly two decades later, and I'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again," Coats said. On Monday, the U.S. top coun Election security chief urges public to be vigilant 02/10/2020 04:03am • Impeccably dressed, charismatically polite and armed with an urgent message, Shelby Pierson, the U.S. Election Threats Executive in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), strode briskly into the studio at WTOP and got straight to the point. ���At this juncture, we do not have CBS News head calls threats against Gayle King reprehensible 02/09/2020 01:39am • ��� NEW YORK (AP) ��� The CBS News chief called threats against journalist Gayle King ���reprehensible��� Saturday as backlash grew against rapper Snoop Dogg and others critical of King for an interview where she asked about a sexual assault charge against the late Kobe Brya Technical glitch at Iowa caucuses bares voting security concerns 02/06/2020 07:07pm • Iowa Democratic Party chairman Troy Price speaks about the delay in Iowa caucus results Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Americans watched in disbelief, glued to their TV sets, smartphones and tablets, on Monday night as the Iowa caucuses, the first offic Bill granting licenses to undocumented immigrants advances in Virginia Senate 02/05/2020 07:13pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Legislation allowing undocumented immigrants to possess a driver���s license in Virginia has advanced in the Senate. Senate Bill 34, introduced by Democratic Sen. Scott Surovell of Fairfax, would allow immigrants to obtain a driver���s license regardless of legal status. Th Electronic gaming machines with cash payouts got DC approval. Here's who will get the first one 02/04/2020 02:55pm • The D.C. Council is taking some tentative new steps toward regulating electronic gaming machines with cash payouts, as one company works to install the devices in the District even as they face intense legislative scrutiny in Virginia. Lawmakers passed emergency legislation Tuesday designed to se DC jail under routine security checks, official says, after word of 'lockdown' causes concern 02/01/2020 04:14pm • The word "lockdown" filled local social media feeds this week as visitors were shut out of the D.C. jail unexpectedly on Monday and all educational classes were canceled. Word of the move alarmed local activists. No New Jails DC tweeted Friday, "Folks have been entrapped in solitary confinement f The shunned: People from virus-hit Chinese city tracked, quarantined 01/31/2020 06:28pm • ��� BEIJING (AP) ��� Meron Mei, a sophomore at Wuhan University in the Chinese city at the heart of a viral outbreak, went back to his home village and started to cough. So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coron For Puerto Rico's earthquake families, trauma continues thousands of miles from home 01/29/2020 06:37am • The beefy ex-cop sleeps in a twin-size trundle bed a few inches off the hardwood floor. His wife, their 17-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son rest on the attached full-size bed, and their 16-year-old son turns in on the upper bunk. Another couple and their 10-year-old Virginia man receives federal sentence for child pornography 01/25/2020 10:12am • A Virginia man has been sentenced to federal prison for using popular social media apps to target and exploit young children. Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr., 30, of Ashburn, Virginia, enticed and coerced several young girls across the country to send sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves Months from 2020 election, Va. updates cybersecurity, voting equipment rules 01/24/2020 03:00pm • AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file Virginia elections officials are taking new cybersecurity steps as part of new voting-equipment policies ahead of the 2020 presidential election. More significant security measures are planned starting in 2021. Under new plans for voting systems and electronic poll How much you will get from Social Security 01/21/2020 11:00am • It can be difficult to predict how much you will receive from Social Security, especially if you are more than a few years away from retirement. But familiarizing yourself with how your benefit will be calculated can help you budget for retirement and even boost your future Social Security payments. How to do a frugal February challenge 01/17/2020 10:00am • Frugal February might be a way to get your budget back in line for 2020. If you're interested in saving money and killing off debt, you may want to try a "Frugal February" challenge. The origins of this monthlong challenge are murky, but it's been around for at least several years, gaining no Analysis: 30 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the West whistles past the graveyard 01/15/2020 01:40pm • On Nov. 9, 1989, triggered by the destruction of the wall that divided East and West Germany, communism in Europe collapsed. Euphoria ensued. The insidious juggernaut known as the Soviet Union, which posed one of the greatest threats to world peace, later crumbled into dust. Political pressure Court docs: Teen killed in DC last year was thought to be an informant 01/14/2020 04:27pm • Months after a teenager was found shot to death inside an empty D.C. public housing apartment, documents charging his alleged killer reveal the possible motive. Three days before he was found shot in the face and thigh inside an empty James Creek public housing apartment on M Street Southwest, 16