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DECEMBER 7, 2017 FBI Oversight FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing. Airing LIVE Thursday, Dec 07 10:00am EST on C-SPAN3

The Paris Review editor Lorin Stein resigned on Wednesday, as it was revealed the literary publication was conducting an internal investigation into his alleged inappropriate behavior toward female employees and writers, the New York Times reports. A spokesperson for book publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux told Publisher’s Marketplace that it had also accepted Stein’s resignation on Wednesday afternoon. The Times notes that The Paris Review’s board began an investigation into the conduct of Stein — who had edited the publication since 2010 — in October after he informed them that his name had appeared on a list (entitled “[BAD] MEDIA...

NASA has confirmed dozens of eyewitness accounts in the Tampa Bay area of a fireball streaking across the sky on Tuesday evening. Amateur video filmed by local residents shows the fireball dramatically appearing to drop out of the sky and then exploding behind cloud cover. The national space agency said that it had received over 60 reports of the fireball from bay area residents, according to WFTS-TV.

For Vietnam veteran John Nugent, who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, coming home to Newburgh, N.Y., meant some isolation, according to his son Chris, but his love of ham radio allowed him to reach out to other people throughout the world. "It was tough for him. The radio made him feel comfortable, and helped with his transition," Chris Nugent said. The veteran's call signal, WA2EQJ, came alive again Tuesday at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, where the 75-year-old Nugent got his dying wish to broadcast on ham radio one more time....

The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) will stay attached to the International Space Station through at least 2020, NASA announced yesterday (Dec. 4). BEAM, which is owned by the Las Vegas-based company Bigelow Aerospace, launched toward the orbiting lab in compact form aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule in April 2016. It was attached and expanded shortly thereafter, to test the performance of such inflatable habitats — which can provide more internal volume per unit launch mass than traditional metallic modules — in the space environment. That work was originally supposed to last for two years, after which BEAM would...

The stonewall in Waco is starting to crumble. Lawyers keep throwing pieces of paper at it. The papers are heavy with words. Four defense lawyers in the Waco Twin Peaks Mass Murder case threw motions at McLennan County District Attorney Abelino Reyna yesterday. David Conrad Beyer who represents Billy Jason McRee; Brian Bouffard who works for Jorge Daniel Salinas; Robert G. Callahan, II acting on behalf of William Aikin; and Clint Broden for Matthew Clendennen all filed motions that make it incontrovertible that the District Attorney’s Office, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have...

The 364-58 roll call Wednesday by which the House killed a resolution to impeach President Donald Trump. A "Yes" vote is a vote to kill the resolution.Voting yes were 126 Democrats and 238 Republicans. Voting No were 58 Democrats and 0 Republicans. X denotes those not voting. Present denotes those who voted they were "present" at the time of the vote but did not vote yes or no on the issue. There are 2 vacancies in the 435-member House. ALABAMA – All Yes ALASKA – Yes ARIZONA – All Yes ARKANSAS – All Yes CALIFORNIA – Dems who voted No:...

Video 10 minutes in length. Harvey Weinstein and pro basketball owners Dolan and Lasry charged with Rico Act violations.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (CBS) – A Transportation Security Administration worker packed more than just a sandwich in his lunch bag while heading to work at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. The worker mistakenly packed a gun, which was found by officials as the worker passed through a security checkpoint screening before work, confirmed TSA spokesman Mike McCarthy on Tuesday. “The firearm was detected on Friday at the security checkpoint when a TSA employee underwent screening at the beginning of their shift,” McCarthy said.

For weeks, Sydney Loofe’s last Tinder date has proclaimed innocence to pretty much anybody who would listen. Yes, Bailey Boswell said, the two women had swiped right on the dating app and met up. Yes, they had driven around the Lincoln, Neb., area getting acquainted and high at the same time. Yes, Loofe had been to her house. But Boswell claimed the last time they saw each other, Loofe was safe and alive, headed into a friend’s house a week before Thanksgiving. Most important, Boswell said, the claims that people had been making about foul play after the two women...

Full title..........................PIERS MORGAN: He claims he wants peace but Trump has just enraged a billion Muslims and poured oil on the flames of a war that could consume us all.....................What's the first thing you're told by your parents as a kid when you're anywhere near fire? That's right: don't pour oil on it. Why? Well, ignore the advice and see for yourself – the fire will instantly erupt into a far larger and more furious ball of violent flame, endangering the lives of everyone in the immediate vicinity. Today, President Donald Trump has taken a million-ton barrel of oil and...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, this week pushed the FBI to turn over all documents relating to Peter Strzok, the official who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team due to political bias. "The communications between members of the Clinton email investigation team raise questions about the integrity of that investigation, and about the objectivity of Mr. Strzok's work for the Special Counsel and in the FBI's investigation of Mr. Flynn," Grassley wrote in his letter. Grassley asked Wray for all communications involving Strzok during his work in those investigations, including any communications involving the FBI's decision...

Time magazine named as Person of the Year Wednesday "the silence breakers" who triggered a national reckoning by revealing the pervasiveness of sexual harassment, assault and abuse in US life. President Donald Trump was runner-up in the prestigious ranking, ahead of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Time designated as "silence breakers" the individuals, mostly women, who came forward this year to publicly expose patterns of sexual harassment, assault and even rape by some of society's most powerful public figures.

For years, Mr Le Blanc and Mr Caron, both members of the Quebec Speleological Society, believed there must be another set of caves connected to Saint-Léonard Cavern near Parc Pie XII in the Saint-Léonard neighbourhood of Montreal, but they did not know exactly where. Then in 2014, the pair got their first inkling o f what might be underneath when dowsing rods - a stick used to search for groundwater - found a small fissure in the ground. ... So far, they've explored about 150 metres of the passageway, all while doing precise surveying for the city to make sure...

While once Ivanka Trump was a conservative darling, the first daughter has fallen out of favor with much of the right, including the president. Republicans' perception of Ivanka Trump has dropped as the first daughter has been increasingly seen as a moderating force. Even President Trump was reportedly frustrated after Ivanka criticized Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of sexual harassing and assaulting teen girls. Over the same period, Hope Hicks has stopped taking fashion cues from Ivanka — and moved on to Melania Trump. Hicks debuted the new fashion strategy at a state dinner in Tokyo....

Schools in Newfoundland and Labrador will no longer be participating in a popular holiday charity. The province’s English School District has directed all schools to cease participation in Operation Christmas Child, a campaign that gives schools and individuals the opportunity to fill a shoebox with small gifts to send to children in need in more than 150 countries. The campaign is a project of Samaritan’s Purse, a non-denominational evangelical organization. District trustees voted at a public meeting on Nov. 25 to end any provincial school participation in the program after concerns were raised about the policies of Samaritan’s Purse. “This...

A Berlin art installation dedicated to ‘martyrs’ has prompted outrage by including one of the Paris jihadist attackers alongside the likes of Martin Luther King and Socrates, with the French embassy calling the display ‘deeply shocking’. The so-called ‘Martyr Museum’ by a Danish art collective shows the portraits of 20 people throughout history who ‘died for their convictions’ accompanied by short biographies. The exhibition includes an image of French jihadist Ismael Omar Mostefai, one of three gunmen and suicide bombers who stormed the Bataclan concert venue in Paris in 2015, killing 90 people. On display next to his portrait is...

Sorry, Ivanka—there can be only one American princess, and right now vshe’s on the other side of the pond.Markle is the fashion industry’s newest muse, in much the same way the Middleton sisters were nearly seven years ago. According, again, to the Times’ Vanessa Friedman, Marklemania has already started. Every outfit she wears inspires crazed levels of imitation. Magazines are already using Markle as a peg in style headlines. The coat she wore during her official engagement announcement crashed its brand’s website. Markle, Friedman notes, will “unquestionably be the most desired guest for any brand” at London Fashion Week this...

In part I of “The Password Pandemic”, I advised (in the same vein as NIST SP 800-63b) the use of passphrases, instead of passwords. This is because hackers have built massive databases of stolen passwords and tables full of password “hashes” (known as rainbow tables.) Also, those of us in the InfoSec community know that when we force the use of complicated passwords on people, they will write them on Post IT notes under their keyboards. I have even seen this happen in very high security environments — this is bad.