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A ProPublica investigation published Tuesday raises concerns about a biotech laboratory being built in Malaysia that will handle deadly pathogens such as anthrax, plague, SARS and the Ebola virus. The stated mission of lab, developed by the Malaysian government with the Maryland-based firm Emergent BioSolutions, is to produce vaccines against fatal and contagious agents that [...]

Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) plans a major policy speech in which he will pick apart the the Obama administration’s approach to national security. The address by the the House minority leader will take on Middle East issues and the global war on terrorism and will highlight his concerns “about how Washington is implementing the new [...]

President Obama said Wednesday the nation’s Social Security system is “not in crisis” and doesn’t need “any newfangled schemes” to keep it solvent for the next generation. Speaking to middle class families at a small outdoor event in Columbus, Ohio, the president said an independent commission is considering a “bunch of ways” to bolster the [...]

Security for aid workers in Afghanistan is deteriorating, and non-government organizations blame U.S. development policies for putting more lives at risk. The U.S. Agency for International Development requires that humanitarian-aid projects in Afghanistan support the military’s war strategy, a policy that has made aid workers targets for the Taliban, say non-government organizations, or NGOs. “There [...]

President Obama signed into law a $600 billion border security bill Friday that will beef up surveillance on the U.S.- Mexico border. In a statement released Thursday, the president said the bill will make “an important difference” as his administration “continues to work with Congress toward bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform to secure our borders, and [...]

The U.S. Senate gavelled into business Thursday for a rare August session to conduct two pieces of business. The first was to pass a bill to spend an additional $600 million on border security on America’s southern border. The second was to honor the late Sen. Ted Stevens, who died Monday night in a plane [...]