FORT MEADE — An Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks was wrongly kept on suicide watch for at least seven days of his nine months’ confinement at a Marine Corps brig in ...

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WASHINGTON — The Senate failed Thursday to pass legislation to protect the U.S. electrical grid, water supplies and other critical industries from cyberattack and electronic espionage despite dire warnings from top national security officials about the potential for devastating assaults ...

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WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say the number of people with access to some of the nation’s most carefully guarded secrets topped 4.86 million people in 2011. That’s up from 4.7 million people granted security clearances the year before, likely reflecting ...

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Baltimore’s first taxi cabs fueled with propane — estimated to save local cabbies $3 million a year in fuel costs — hit the streets Friday. Funded in part through a $300 million federal stimulus grant awarded to the national Clean ...

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday honored some of its employees behind the complex legal efforts to keep America safe, but the public ceremony raised more questions about what they did than answered them. Call it the Black-Ops Oscars, ...

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FORT MEADE — The preliminary hearing for an Army intelligence analyst accused of creating the biggest national security leak in U.S. history is winding down with closing arguments. Prosecutors and defense attorneys make their closings Thursday on the seventh day ...

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WASHINGTON — A senior defense official says lawyers from across government agencies are studying whether it might be possible to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act. The official says lawyers from the departments of Justice, State and ...

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