“Helicopters are expected to be back in the air in a major way Monday,” over the 15 counties across Colorado’s Front Range where historic flooding has killed at least 6 people, left hundreds more stranded and unaccounted for, and forced nearly 12,000 to evacuate their homes, our colleagues at KUNC report.
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NSA Has Broken Privacy Rules ‘Thousands Of Times Each Year’
The morning’s major scoop comes from The Washington Post: “The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008.”
Halliburton Will Plead Guilty To Destroying Evidence In BP Gulf Spill
Halliburton Energy Services Inc. will plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection to the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010 that left 11 dead and resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S. history, the Justice Department said on Thursday.
He’s An Impostor, The Navy Says About Cap’n Crunch
We don’t know how, but we missed a major scandal brewing in the Navy for decades. It’s important, so even if we’re a little late to the story we still wanted to point it out: Cap’n Crunch is an impostor.
‘Suffering On A Huge Scale’: World Refugee Numbers Swell
The United Nations Refugee Commission says more than 45.2 million people were in “situations of displacement” around the world as of last year — the most since 1994.
At Least 93,000 Syrians Have Died During Conflict, U.N. Says
“The constant flow of killings continues at shockingly high levels,” the U.N. high commissioner for human rights said Thursday as her office reported there have been at least 92,901 conflict-related deaths in Syria since March 2011.
No Decisions Yet On The Most-Anticipated Supreme Court Cases
There’s no big news again today from the U.S. Supreme Court — which is sort-of big news in itself because it means we’re still waiting for the justices’ decisions on these major case
Reports: 20 Major League Baseball Players May Be Suspended
“Major League Baseball will seek to suspend about 20 players connected to the Miami-area clinic at the heart of an ongoing performance-enhancing drug scandal, including Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun, possibly within the next few weeks,” ESPN’s Outside the Lines reports.
6 Stories To Mark 60 Years Since First Summit Of Everest
On this, the 60th anniversary of the first successful summit of the world’s tallest mountain, there’s plenty of news about Mount Everest. Here are six stories we found interesting:
Pentagon: China’s Government Hacked U.S. Networks
The Pentagon has for the first time identified Beijing directly for cyberattacks against both U.S. government networks and commercial computers, calling the practice a “serious concern.”