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Payment card data was stolen from an unknown number of Target Corp customers starting on the busy Black Friday weekend in a major breach at the U.S. retailer, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Secret Service is investigating, according to a spokesman for the agency, which safeguards the nation's payment systems. Target officials did not respond to requests for comment. Investigators believe the data was obtained via software installed on machines that customers use to swipe magnetic strips on their cards when paying for merchandise at Target stores, according to the person who was not authorized to...

Peshawar, 15 December 2013 Terrorist targets the Peshawar airport employee house in Shabqadar area and thrown two hand grenades but no human loss registered in the incident. The incidents take in Mathra area of Shabqadar, which is surrounding area of district Peshawar. According to the local police terrorist thrown two hand grenade in the house of Haji Shabir, whose employ of Bacha Khan Airport Peshawar. One Hand grenades explodes but no one injured in the incident, local heard the huge explosion in the area and they informed the police. Police reached to the spot and defuse the other hand grenade,...

A 63-year-old Sarasota woman was arrested in front of the Walmart sore on Lockwood Ridge Road at 8:26 p.m. Monday and charged with battery on an officer and disorderly conduct after she reportedly struck a sergeant of the Manatee County Sheriff's Office with a closed fist and later refused requests to keep her clothes on.

LONGWOOD, Fla. — A Longwood woman was out walking her dogs when she was attacked by a bear Monday night, according to the Seminole County Fire Department.

A store manager at Marshalls in South Charleston, WV was attacked when she attempted to stop three women believed to be shoplifters. According to the South Charleston Police Dept., three women were attempting to the leave the store with a cart full of items. The store manager stopped the women at the door and asked for a receipt. According to police, one of the women hit the manager in the face and neck knocking her to the ground. The manager held on to the shopping cart and pulled it down on top of her. One of the women attempted to...

Hasan Faraji, 31, was arrested by Azerbaijani police after displaying “suspicious behavior” while wandering around the Israeli embassy in Baku on October 31. Faraji, who resisted arrest, was sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention, according to the APA news agency. According to Channel 10, Faraji is a part of the Iranian Quds Forces, a special unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard that, among other oles, is tasked with planning and executing terrorist attacks against Israeli targets overseas. On Thursday an Iranian diplomat said Faraji denies he was planning any attack... Iranian embassy officials met Faraji in custody... Azerbaijani police raided...

Wolves have killed one horse and badly injured another in an attack on the outskirts of a ski village close to the French Riviera, officials said Thursday. The attack, at Auron in the Alpes-Maritimes region inland from Nice, was the latest incident to trigger anger among farmers in southeastern France over the protected status of wolves and their growing numbers. The owner of the horses, Jacques Riguccini, said a pack of wolves had chased around 30 of his animals one night last week and one of them had been ripped apart after getting tangled up in safety netting by the...

A pair of Texas deer hunters became the hunted when a wild buck attacked them and as they walked out of a home last week. “He came up and starting poking me in my ribs, so I grabbed his horns and pushed him back and hopped in the back of my truck,” Rose said. The deer then snagged Rose’s cigarettes from his dashboard and began eating them, Rose said. When Rose tried to get his smokes back, the deer attacked again.

The most important thing about the policy move announced by President Obama on Thursday is not its practical significance — which is frankly very hard to predict — but rather what it tells us about the mindset of the president and his top lieutenants. In that respect, the past few days have marked a significant change, and signaled a new and unprecedented level of panic and chaos. **SNIP** If the Senate Democrats championing the Landrieu bill (which would impose a guaranteed ­renewability requirement on all 2013 plans, overriding ObamaCare’s qualified-coverage mandates) got their way, they would expose deep divisions in...

At least five CIA personnel, including government contractors, were asked to sign a second non-disclosure agreement after the Benghazi terrorist attack, Fox News has learned. While the three-page NDA, obtained by Fox News, does not contain specific references to the 2012 attack which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, it does contain standard language that unauthorized disclosures could lead to "temporary loss of pay or termination" and "in some circumstances, constitute a criminal offense."

Since the troubled Healthcare.gov website launched it's been hit by 16 cyber-attacks, according to the Department of Homeland security. The website has also received a handful of hacking attempts, none of which was successful. The numbers are actually very small, relatively speaking. Government websites are constantly on the receiving end of attempted cyber attacks.

A group of 10 black youths blocked a white couple’s car in the New York borough of Brooklyn, brutally beating the husband and slamming the wife’s head into the pavement by her hair as they shouted racial epithets, officials said. Ronald Russo, 30, and his wife, Alanna, 30, were stopped at a red light Monday night when the group crossed Avenue U at East 58th Street, the New York Daily News reported. Mr. Russo honked his horn when the light turned green to get the youths out of the way, but they then began kicking the car, according to the...

MANSFIELD, Ohio — Local authorities in Mansfield were tracking a pack of coyotes Friday after a man doing some lawn care was attacked. He was riding a mower while blowing leaves along Springmill Road shortly before noon. According to the Mansfield Police Department, about four coyotes rushed at him from a wooded area and one jumped up on the mower, scratching him. The man’s jacket was torn and he suffered an injury to his arm but was able to drive himself to the hospital.

A British security contractor said he repeatedly warned US officials that their diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was inadequately protected before it suffered a deadly attack last year. He also described fighting off armed attackers during the al-Qaeda-linked assault, in an attempt to help rescue guards he had trained to man the gates of the compound. Speaking publicly about the attack for the first time, the contractor, a former British soldier using the pseudonym Morgan Jones "for his own safety", described the experience as "sheer hell". He claimed that having been employed to train the unarmed guards for the mission's...

Benghazi was a planned, sophisticated attack by al Qaeda against a barely protected American outpost. Lara Logan reports.

STOCKBRIDGE, Ga. — Authorities say a woman was in stable condition after two dogs attacked her in Henry County. Henry County police Sgt. Joey Smith said the woman was bitten as she walked her own dog in the Windsong Plantation subdivision in Stockbridge Thursday afternoon. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/HjPLkm) that she was flown to Atlanta Medical Center, where she underwent emergency surgery Thursday afternoon. Her name wasn't released. Police said the victim's poodle was also attacked and taken to a local veterinarian for treatment. Smith said both dogs involved were killed and rabies testing will be done on both...

Kuwait-based Al Jarida quotes Israeli security official as saying that Israel is mulling destroying remainder of cache in Beka'a Valley; report could not be confirmed by any other source. Lebanon Kuwait's Al-Jarida newspaper reported Wednesday that Israeli warplanes attacked a convoy carrying missiles along Lebanon's border with Syria two days earlier. Quoting Israeli sources, the newspaper said that the missiles were intended for delivery to Hezbollah, to bolster their cache of advanced weapons. The report did not specify whether the alleged attack was carried out on Lebanese or Syrian territory. The newspaper sources an Israeli security official, described as an...

LONGMONT -- Andrew Dickehage probably will think twice before deciding to walk to work again anytime soon. Dickehage, 22, had been having car troubles, so at 5 a.m. Monday he was walking on North 73rd Street near Niwot Road on his way to work at CCI, on the IBM campus. That's when three coyotes attacked him. Dickehage said he was walking along and heard a twig snap. "I didn't think much of it," he said. "I thought it was probably a bunny." Dickehage said he turned on his flashlight to see what made the noise when the largest of the...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Speaking exclusively to CBS 3, a 15-year-old high school student, whose identity we are concealing, described a terrifying attack by a gang of at least nine teenage boys as she was leaving an Interboro High School football game Monday night. The teenage victim described first being taunted by the attackers, who followed her down a neighborhood street, cursing and spitting at her, before she was repeatedly kicked and punched, at least one of the blows to her head. “It was scary, just horrible, just the worst feeling in the world,” she said. “He punched me in my...

SEATTLE -- A jogger was so angry at being confronted by an escaped pit bull that he choked its (sort-of) owner with the dog's own leash Sunday night in Queen Anne, according to the Seattle Police Department. According to police report for the incident, the jogger was in the 1600 block of 10th Avenue West around 8:50 p.m. when a pit bull ran in front of him and started to growl. The jogger yelled at the dog, and it ran behind a bush. The jogger later told officers he yelled, "Who owns this dog? Come and get him" before seeing...