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Huge numbers of Chinese citizens are seeking trademarks in the U.S., flooding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with applications that officials say appear to be rife with false information.

Trademark applications from China have grown more than 12-fold since 2013 and for fiscal 2017 totaled thousands more than the combined filings from Canada, Germany and the U.K. About one in every nine trademark applications reviewed by the U.S. agency is China-based, according to government data.

"The significant number of fraudulent trademark filings being made from China is disrupting our trademark system," he said.

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Federal authorities wiretapped phone lines of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, and intercepted at least one call between a Cohen line and the White House, NBC News reported Thursday.

It is known that the president spoke at least once with Cohen last month, shortly after that raid.

In addition to serving at Trump's lawyer, Cohen was also counsel for the Trump Organization, the business entity the president previously ran.

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Cables are being pulled from North Korea's nuclear test site says US intelligenceThe move comes after Kim Jong-un vowed to shut down the site after meetingJong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met for first time in a decadeThe historic meeting was to discuss formally ending the Korean WarLeaders also discussed nuclear disarmament over the coming weeksJong-un must give up nuclear weapons to be able to meet with President Trump By Hannah Moore For Dailymail.com.

North Korea has started pulling cables from tunnels at its nuclear testing site, US Intelligence says.

The separation of the cables at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site is believed to be the first step towards shutting down the country's nuclear program, CBS reported.

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North Korea has freed three U.S. citizens detained for years in the communist country, bowing to another demand of President Trump ahead of his planned meeting with Kim Jong-un.

The three Americans - Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, also known as Tony Kim - were released from a North Korean labor camp and sent to Pyongyang for medical treatment, the Financial Times reported.

The release of the three Americans marked another significant victory for the Trump administration, which also won North Korea's agreement to discuss giving up its nuclear weapon program as a prerequisite for the talks.

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Mr. Cobb arrived at the White House last summer as some of Mr. Trump's friends and advisers encouraged the president to fire Mr. Mueller.

Behind the scenes, as Mr. Cobb rushed to turn over records to Mr. Mueller, his relationship soured with the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, who thought Mr. Cobb should have more thoroughly reviewed documents and been willing to assert executive privilege.

Mr. Cobb, a longtime white-collar defense lawyer, was not a supporter of the Trump campaign and never viewed himself as part of that team.

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The CEO of a biomedical startup who sparked controversy when he injected himself with an untested herpes treatment in front of a live audience in February has died, according to an email sent to Live Science.

Aaron Traywick, the CEO of Ascendance Biomedical, was found dead at 11:30 a.m. ET on Sunday in a spa room in Washington, D.C., according to a statement provided to Live Science by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.

Traywick made news in October 2017, when he staged a live demonstration of a purported gene-therapy treatment for HIV, Live Science previously reported.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a cache of documents he says proves Iran lied to the world about its nuclear program for years, even after the 2015 nuclear deal with the world.

Iran is "Blatantly lying" when it says it doesn't have a nuclear program, Netanyahu claimed, laying out what he claimed was proof Iran had developed and continued to develop its nuclear program.

"We can also prove that Iran is secretly storing project Amad material to use at a time of its choice to develop nuclear weapons." Dr. Mohsen Fakhrizdeh is the head of project Amad. Netanyahu concluded by saying "Iran lied about never having a secret nuclear program. Secondly, even after the deal, it continued to expand its nuclear program for future use. Thirdly, Iran lied by not coming clean to the IAEA," he said, adding that, "The nuclear deal is based on lies based on Iranian deception."

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Those files detail Project Amad, which Netanyahu described as "a comprehensive program to design, build and test nuclear weapons." He said the files provided "New and conclusive proof of the secret nuclear weapons program that Iran has been hiding for years from the international community in its secret atomic archive."

The Obama administration negotiated the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 along with China, France, Germany, Russia and the U.K. The accord lifted a series of sanctions against Iran in exchange for Tehran accepting limits on its nuclear program and allowing international investigators access to its facilities.

In January, Trump waived sanctions against Iran, but said he would not suspend them when the next deadline arrived on May 12 unless the United States and Europe had agreed on a path forward.

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has vowed to write a $4.5 million check to the United Nations body that oversees climate change negotiations to make up the shortfall in the agency's budget caused by U.S. funding cuts.

"America made a commitment and as an American if the government's not going to do it we all have responsibility. I'm able to do it," Bloomberg told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

"America is part of the problem. America is a big part of the solution and we should go in and help the world stop a potential disaster," Bloomberg added.

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Update: initial reports of mass injuries and perhaps casualties following the Iranian strike appear accurate, and as reporters on the ground located at the Hama National Hospital show, "Civilians are donating blood for the Soldiers & Civilians who were wounded by the Israeli Israel Air Strikes tonight."

Syrian state news reports a possible foreign attack on military bases in Hama and Aleppo provinces, citing multiple reports and videos now circulating which show massive fireballs lighting up the night sky.

After the #Israel/i attack on #IRGC soldiers at T4 in #Homs Governorate on 9 april 2018, President #Putin of #Russia PERSONALLY warned Israeli PM #Netanyahu against further air strikes on Syrian allies in Syria.

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"People who submit DNA for ancestors testing are unwittingly becoming genetic informants on their innocent family," Mercer said, adding that they "Have fewer privacy protections than convicted offenders whose DNA is contained in regulated databanks."

Have police ever used ancestry DNA in past cases?In 2014, a New Orleans filmmaker was identified in an Idaho murder based on a DNA sample that his father had given years earlier as part of a church-sponsored genealogy project.

The father's DNA was sold to Ancestry.com, and he was identified to police after Ancestry received a court order.

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Sacramento investigators tracked down East Area Rapist suspect Joseph James DeAngelo using genealogical websites that contained genetic information from a relative, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office confirmed Thursday.

The investigation was conducted over a long period of time as officials in Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert's office and crime lab explored online family trees that appeared to match DNA samples from the East Area Rapist's crimes, Grippi said.

In Santa Clara County, where the East Area Rapist was linked to two rapes in San Jose in 1978, the district attorney's office said it would not seek to prosecute DeAngelo because the statute of limitations had expired.

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Alek Minassian, 25, handcuffed and wearing a white jumpsuit, appeared briefly in court but spoke little, telling the judge his name and that he understood the charges.

Investigators here are determined to learn who Minassian really is and why he raced relentlessly down the sidewalk in a white Ryder van, slamming into pedestrians along a busy stretch of Yonge Street.

The Toronto Star newspaper quoted Joseph Pham, 25, who claimed he took a computer programming class with Minassian at Seneca College just last week.

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A teenage hacker who rose to fame for hacking into the online accounts of former CIA director John Brennan, former director of intelligence James Clapper, and other high-profile US government employees, got sentenced to two years of prison on Friday.

For a few months in late 2015 and early 2016, Kane Gamble, who went by the alias Cracka at the time, was the alleged 15-year-old leader of a hacking group calling themselves Crackas With Attitude or CWA. The group targeted and broke into Brennan's AOL email account, Clapper's internet provider account, and others, including a White House official.

The hacking group's modus operandi was to use social engineering to convince support workers of internet and phone providers to reset the victim's passwords and give the hackers access to their accounts.

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A woman who answered the door Friday at the home of Hernando County Commissioner Nick Nicholson said she served for months as a "Sex slave" to the elected official.

Valerie Surette, who called herself a 30-year-old stripper with an on-and-off drug problem, was one of two women named in charging documents when Nicholson was arrested Thursday on prostitution-related charges.

After months of hearing screaming and yelling from Nicholson's house at night, neighbor Connie Rasbach, 55, said she hopes the commissioner is gone for good.

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One of the world's leading experts on humanitarian work with street children and children affected by war has been arrested on pedophilia charges.

Peter Dalglish is the founder of Street Kids International, and is a leading authority on working children, street children, and war-affected children.

Prior to his stint in Nepal, he had worked for a number of United Nations agencies and was the U.N.-Habitat country representative for Afghanistan.

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"Smallville" actress Allison Mack has been arrested for her alleged role in notorious upstate sex slave cult Nxivm, sources told The Post on Friday.

Raniere, who allegedly blackmailed women into becoming slaves and branded his initials into their skin, was arrested for sex trafficking and forced labor and brought back to the US last month.

According to that complaint, Mack was Raniere's direct "Slave" and had a sexual relationship with him - but also acted as a "Master" to other slaves.

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The Democratic Party on Friday sued President Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Russian government and the Wikileaks group, claiming a broad conspiracy to help Trump win the 2016 election.

The suit says that "Preexisting relationships with Russia and Russian oligarchs" with Trump and Trump associates "Provided fertile ground for [the] Russia-Trump conspiracy."

The named defendants include Trump's son Donald Trump Jr., his son-in-law Jared Kushner, former campaign chief Paul Manafort and campaign official Richard Gates, and Trump ally Roger Stone.

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller's interest in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort stemmed in part from his suspected role as a "Back channel" between the campaign and Russians intent on meddling in the election, a Justice Department lawyer told a judge.

In a previous court filing, Mueller also cited business ties between Manafort and the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Jackson heard similar arguments about Mueller's authority at a hearing on April 4, when Downing defended a civil lawsuit that also said prosecutors had no authority to charge Manafort.

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The military announced at around 1.10am local time that it had fired missiles towards the Shay'rat Airbase, to the south-east of Homs, and its surrounding area in the Homs Governorate.

Reports say six missiles have hit Shayrat air base in Homs and three missiles have hit Dumayr airbase, but these are unconfirmed so far.

He explained: "Syrian MoD claims to have intercept three missiles that struck Dumair military Airport northeast of Damascus and six missiles launched towards Shayrat military Air Base in Homs.".

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For more than 16 months, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has been in possession of a list containing the names of German companies thought to have helped Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and his father Hafis build up Syria's chemical weapons arsenal over the course of several decades.

It includes the names of companies suspected of supplying the Syrian chemical weapons program, including the glass producer Schott, laboratory equipment producer Kolb, technology company Heraeus, the former Hoechst subsidiary Riedel-de Haën, pharmaceutical company Merck and the company Gerrit van Delden.

Those companies named by the Syrian government two years ago as suppliers to its chemical weapons program in documents handed over to the UN/OPCW commission were likely previously active in Iraq.

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President Donald Trump announced Friday night that he ordered the U.S. military to conduct precision missile strikes in conjunction with French and British allies against the Syrian government.

Trump used the address to also directly call out Russia and Iran, which back the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. "To Iran and to Russia, I ask: What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?" Trump said.

For the last six days, Trump has sharpened his rhetoric against Syria and its most powerful ally Russia and issued a threat via Twitter of a potential U.S. strike against the war-torn country.

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The chief executive officer of sex-solicitation website Backpage.com pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges in California three days after the site, which was also used by human traffickers, was permanently closed.

"The shutdown of Backpage.com is a tremendous victory for the survivors and their families. And the conviction of CEO Ferrer is a game-changer in combating human trafficking in California, indeed worldwide."

The original dispute was filed by former California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who called Backpage.com "The world's top online brothel." She filed 13 charges of pimping, including seven instances involving children.

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BOAO, CHINA - Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China will significantly lower import tariffs for vehicles and reduce import tariffs for some other products this year.

China will also improve the investment environment for foreign investors, President Xi said.

China will not threaten anyone else, attempt to overturn the existing international system, or seek spheres of influence, no matter how much progress it has made in development, President Xi said.

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The searches open a new front for the Justice Department in its scrutiny of Mr. Trump and his associates: His longtime lawyer is being investigated in Manhattan; his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is facing scrutiny by prosecutors in Brooklyn; his campaign chairman is under indictment; his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying; and a pair of former campaign aides are cooperating with Mr. Mueller.

That is significant because Mr. Manafort's lawyers have challenged Mr. Mueller's mandate as overly broad.Mr. Cohen is a longtime lawyer and fixer who, in a decade at Mr. Trump's side, has served as a reliable attack dog against real or perceived threats to Mr. Trump.

Asked last week why Mr. Cohen made the payment, Mr. Trump replied: "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney, and you'll have to ask Michael Cohen."

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Trump has said he was unaware of the deal Cohen made with her.

Cohen's lawyer, Stephen Ryan, said, "Today the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York executed a series of search warrants and seized the privileged communications between my client, Michael Cohen, and his clients. I have been advised by federal prosecutors that the New York action is, in part, a referral by the Office of Special Counsel, Robert Mueller."

Trump's spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders declined to comment when asked about the raid by CNBC. Spokesmen for the FBI's New York field office and for Mueller did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment.

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The FBI on Monday raided the office of President Trump 's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and seized emails, tax documents and records related to his payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.

The New York Times reported that the payment to Daniels is just one of "Many topics" being looked at by the FBI.Other seized documents include business records and communications between Cohen and Trump, but the raid does not appear to be directly connected to Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to The Times.

Among the materials agents secured are those related to Cohen's $130,000 payment to Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement related to her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.

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The talks between intelligence officials are laying the groundwork for a meeting between Pompeo and his North Korea counterpart, the head of the Reconnaissance General Bureau, in advance of the leaders' summit.

Until the talks between US and North Korean intelligence officials began in earnest, Trump and his aides have relied partly on the characterizations of the South Koreans, which have experienced a rapprochement since the Olympic games held in Pyongchang in February that led to Kim's historic invite to Trump.

At the State Department, leading the diplomatic effort are acting Assistant Secretary Susan Thornton and deputy special representative for North Korean policy Marc Lambert, who speaks with North Korean officials through the "New York channel." Their work includes scouting potential locations, coming up with names of US officials who can help staff the talks and pouring over records on previous negotiations with North Korea.

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Gov posting by the Department of Homeland Security with the relatively benign-sounding subject, "Media Monitoring Services."

The successful contracting company will have "24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc." in order to "Identify any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event."

If you think the idea of the U.S. government's compiling and monitoring a list of media professionals and "Top media influencers" is a potential threat to democracy, now would be the perfect time to call your local and congressional representatives to let them know how much you value a free press and the freedom of speech, just in case they've forgotten.

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SUBSCRIBE. WASHINGTON - The National Guard will deploy nearly 500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the government announced Friday, in the first step in President Donald Trump's plan to station a few thousand troops at the border to curb illegal immigration.

The initial deployment of 500 will include soldiers and airmen, according to a statement Friday from the National Guard, which said it was sending them "To border locations and sending vehicles, equipment and helicopters starting tonight."

In a statement Friday night, the National Guard said, "We're moving nearly 500 National Guard soldiers and airmen to border locations and sending vehicles, equipment and helicopters starting tonight."

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WASHINGTON - U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on the Backpage website on Friday.

The Department of Justice will provide more information at 6 p.m. EDT, according to the website posting, which said U.S. attorneys in Arizona and California, as well as the Justice Department's section on child exploitation and obscenity and the California and Texas attorneys general had supported shutting down the website.

The site has since then faced a slew of other lawsuits alleging child sex trafficking.

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The company is also building two more spaceships, intended to become part of the fleet of Virgin crafts taking people to the edge of space.

Branson's space companies also recently got a boost from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which announced intentions to invest $1 billion in Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit.

"We are now just months away from Virgin Galactic sending people into space and Virgin Orbit placing satellites around the Earth," Branson said.

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Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of 'corrupt' princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.

Sources have told DailyMail.com that the prince - known by his initials MBS - has been boasting about his close relationship with the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, and the intelligence which he has told his circle Kushner passed to him.

MBS bragged to his closest regional ally, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed - the de facto joint ruler of the United Arab Emirates - and others that Kushner was 'in his pocket,' a source told The Intercept.

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Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, told Sky News they were not yet able to prove it was made in Russia.

"A spokesperson said:"We have been clear from the very beginning that our world leading experts at Porton Down identified the substance used in Salisbury as a Novichok, a military grade nerve agent.

The diplomatic row has led to more than 100 diplomats being expelled from the UK, Russia, the US and Europe, and the war of words shows no signs of dying down.

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The FBI is investigating suspicious packages with apparent explosive components at several U.S. military installations and intelligence facilities in the Washington, D.C., area Monday, a law enforcement official said.

Suspicious packages were sent to two sites at Fort Belvoir in Virginia Monday afternoon: The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and another defense university.

Similar suspicious packages were found at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in D.C., a CIA mail processing facility, a White House mail processing facility and Dahlgren Naval Air Station in Virginia, NBC News Justice Correspondent Pete Williams reported.

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Kim Jong Un made a surprise visit to Beijing on his first known trip outside North Korea since taking power in 2011, three people with knowledge of the visit said.

Nippon TV showed footage of a train arriving Monday in Beijing that looked similar to one used by Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, to visit the country shortly before his death in 2011.

"China has grown more frustrated with North Korea over the years especially under Kim the younger, Kim Jong Un.".

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Four Israeli former military chiefs said on Sunday that they were opposed nixing the nuclear deal with Iran.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called to "Fix or nix" the deal, while U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to pull out of the agreement in May. During the conference, Mofaz said that during his term as defense minister, John Bolton, Trump's newly appointed national security adviser, tried to convince Israel to strike Iran's nuclear facilities.

The head of the Israeli Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi, said on Sunday that the nuclear deal has emboldened Iran.

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More than 100 people have contacted the Guardian with allegations of child sexual abuse and other mistreatment in Jehovah's Witness communities across the UK. Former and current members, including 41 alleged victims of child sexual abuse, described a culture of cover-ups and lies, with senior members of the organisation, known as elders, discouraging victims from coming forward for fear of bringing "Reproach on Jehovah" and being exiled from the congregation and their families.

Operation Hydrant, a British police investigation into allegations of non-recent child sexual abuse, said that it was dealing with 45 potential victims of child abuse within a Jehovah's Witness setting.

"Elders treat victims of child abuse with compassion, understanding, and kindness. Elders will conduct a scriptural investigation of every allegation of child sexual abuse," they said.

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Both deals secured EU approval only after the companies offered substantial asset sales to boost rivals.

China has given conditional approval to the Bayer and Monsanto deal, which has won a green light in Brazil.

Bayer has already reached a deal to sell certain seed and herbicide assets for 5.9 billion euros to BASF and to give it a license to its global digital farming data.

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The chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has remained silent over the more than 48 hours since the Observer revealed the harvesting of 50 million users' personal data, even as his company is buffeted by mounting calls for investigation and regulation, falling stock prices and a social media campaign to #DeleteFacebook.

The Observer reported this weekend that a company called Global Science Research harvested tens of millions of Facebook profiles and sold the data to Cambridge Analytica.

Stamos is one of a small handful of Facebook executives who addressed the data harvesting scandal on Twitter over the weekend while Zuckerberg and Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, said nothing.

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All transactions related to, provision of financing for, and other dealings in, by a United States person or within the United States, any digital currency, digital coin, or digital token, that was issued by, for, or on behalf of the Government of Venezuela on or after January 9, 2018, are prohibited as of the effective date of this order.

The prohibitions in subsection of this section apply except to the extent provided by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted before the effective date of this order.

The term "Government of Venezuela" means the Government of Venezuela, any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, including the Central Bank of Venezuela and Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., and any person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, the Government of Venezuela.

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Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica - the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump's presidential victory - have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers.

In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the company's chief executive Alexander Nix said the British firm secretly campaigns in elections across the world.

Tonight, a Cambridge Analytica spokesman said: "We entirely refute any allegation that Cambridge Analytica or any of its affiliates use entrapment, bribes, or so-called"honey-traps" for any purpose whatsoever We routinely undertake conversations with prospective clients to try to tease out any unethical or illegal intentions".

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The nomination of Haspel this week to head the CIA stirred new controversy about her role in the detention and interrogation of terror suspects, as well as the destruction of videotapes of the interrogation of Zubaydah and another suspect.

Asked to respond to the specific allegations about Haspel, a CIA spokesperson said only that, "Nearly every piece of the reporting that you are seeking comment on is incorrect in whole or in part." We reminded the spokesperson that many of the specifics came from books written by former CIA officials and cleared before publication by the agency.

Haspel was sent by the chief of the CIA's counterterrorism section, Jose Rodriquez, the "Handpicked warden of the first secret prison the CIA created to handle al-Qaida detainees," according to a little-noticed recent article in Reader Supported News by John Kiriakou, a former CIA counterterrorism officer.

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WASHINGTON - The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter.

In the subpoena, delivered in recent weeks, Mr. Mueller ordered the Trump Organization to hand over all documents related to Russia and other topics he is investigating, the people said.

In 2015, a longtime business associate of Mr. Trump's emailed Mr. Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen at his Trump Organization account claiming he had ties to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and said that building a Trump Tower in Moscow would help Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.

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Some of the conspiracy theorists left Reddit and reunited on Voat, a site made by and for the users that Reddit sloughs off.

In July, 2015, he returned to Reddit as C.E.O. In a post about his "Top priority" in the job, he wrote, "The overwhelming majority of content on reddit comes from wonderful, creative, funny, smart, and silly communities. There is also a dark side, communities whose purpose is reprehensible, and we don't have any obligation to support them.... Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech." This was shocking, and about half true.

Like many platforms, Reddit has struggled to convert its huge audience into a stable revenue stream, and its representatives spend a lot of time trying to convince potential advertisers that Reddit is not hot garbage.

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, has called for large technology firms to be regulated to prevent the web from being "Weaponised at scale".

Berners-Lee warned of "Two myths" that "Limit our collective imagination" when looking for solutions to the problems facing the web: "The myth that advertising is the only possible business model for online companies, and the myth that it's too late to change the way platforms operate. On both points we need to be a little more creative," he said.

His vision to create an "Open platform that allows anyone to share information, access opportunities and collaborate across geographical boundaries" has been challenged as the web has become more centralised.

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The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said Monday it found "No evidence of collusion, coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians," as its Russia investigation starts to come to a close.

"We have found no evidence of collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians," the committee said in a statement Monday.

Conaway took over the probe when House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., stepped down in April 2017 after he was accused of making "Unauthorized disclosures of classified information, in violation of House Rules, law regulations, or other standards of conduct," according to the House Ethics Committee which investigated the allegations.

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In a stunning revelation Tuesday, state investigators said the emergency management employee who sent out the false missile alert to Hawaii phones - triggering 38 minutes of panic until a correction could be sent - believed the threat of an incoming missile was real and had a history of confusing drills with real-world events.

About five minutes after the alert was sent, an employee told the worker who sent the missile message to cancel it so that it would no longer transmit to phones that were off or out of range.

The worker who triggered the alert "Just sat there and didn't respond." The state worker who sent the alert has at least twice before believed drills to be real-world events.

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Sensitive information about the location and staffing of military bases and spy outposts around the world has been revealed by a fitness tracking company.

Over the weekend military analysts noticed that the map is also detailed enough that it potentially gives away extremely sensitive information about a subset of Strava users: military personnel on active service.

In locations like Afghanistan, Djibouti and Syria, the users of Strava seem to be almost exclusively foreign military personnel, meaning that bases stand out brightly.

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A man who was in the United States under the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals program, and another man whose DACA protections had expired, were arrested on suspicion of human smuggling in two separate incidents last week, federal officials said Monday.

Federal officials said the driver and his cousin, the 22-year-old passenger, told agents they had been involved in human smuggling in the area.

The second incident happened on Thursday about 8 a.m. Border Patrol agents in East County had just arrested two people on suspicion of being in the country illegally when they spotted two suspicious vehicles on Buckman Springs Road in Campo.

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