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Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) -- Police have found homicide victim John Wheeler's cell phone, according to a taxi driver who was interviewed by investigators this week. Athel Scott told CNN National Correspondent Susan Candiotti that police told him they found the cab driver's number in the phone of Wheeler, the former Pentagon official who was found dead in a Delaware landfill. He said investigators wanted to know how his number got there. Scott... says he told the police he didn't have any idea. "I never got a call from the man. I don't know him... He's never been in my cab....

President Joe Biden issued a veiled criticism of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday while touting the COVID-19 vaccines newly available to young children. Children as young as 6 months old began receiving COVID-19 shots on Tuesday. Biden boasted about his administration’s extensive road map for getting shots in children's arms while visiting a Washington, D.C., vaccination site, where he met with parents and young children. The federal government has already made 10 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's and Moderna’s pediatric vaccines available to states for preorder, but Florida opted out. DeSantis, who often casts himself as a foil to Biden, declared...

The media is now using a report from a Defense contractor to establish the notion that there was no election fraud in the 2020 election. Here’s why they are wrong.A report is being passed around by Big Media that claims due to a study that there was no election fraud in the 2020 election.The Washington Times reported on it:A research nonprofit says it did an extensive examination of 2020 voting data in eight swing states and concluded “evidence of fraud or compromise was not found.”The highly technical 43-page study was produced by The MITRE Corp. and its National Election Security...

Body of murdered cyberwar expert found in landfill Military man dumped into three-ring whodunit Dan Goodin January 5, 2010 The body of a decorated US Army officer was found dumped in a Delaware landfill on New Years Eve day, a few days after he expressed concern that the nation wasn't adequately prepared for cyber warfare, according to news reports following the bizarre whodunit. Events surrounding the murder of John P. Wheeler III, who most recently worked part-time for defense contractor Mitre Corporation on cyber defense topics, read like a Tom Clancy novel. The 66-year-old worked for three Republican administrations, was...

MITRE Corp. Tracks News (Almost) as it HappensAs CNN and other news sources broadcast news around the clock, MITRE Corp. in Bedford, Massachusetts, captures the footage and maps it.MITRE is an independent not-for-profit company working in the public interest. It operates federal funded research and development centers for the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. In May 1998, MITRE was tasked by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) with a project to develop a Geospatial News On Demand Environment, called GeoNODE. GeoNODE helps people navigate and perform analysis on news coverage emanating from...