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U.S. Capitol Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect for allegedly “doxing” GOP senators by posting their private information online. The suspect, 27-year-old Jackson Cosko of Washington, D.C., has been charged with publicizing restricted personal information, witness tampering, second-degree burglary, threatening interstate communications, unauthorized use of a government computer, identity theft, and unlawful entry, according to a Wednesday press release. The Capitol Police said an investigation is ongoing, but declined to answer The Hill’s requests for comment. Reports emerged last week that someone from within the U.S. House of Representatives had posted the home addresses and personal cell phone numbers of...

Everybody has heard the national Emergency Alert System (EAS). Those familiar "duck calls" that reassure listeners "THIS is a test...this is ONLY a test..." The FCC is planning an upgrade to the tests by including presidential announcements in the system. Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau of the FCC, explained to the Federal Drive the Presidential Alert isn't new.

The mayoral-race mystery of where candidate Rahm Emanuel stored boxes of personal items has been solved. Attorneys for Emanuel visited the house he owns in Ravenswood at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, located the much-discussed “crawl space,” looked inside and found ...