IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 08/02/2013

Congress to get secret drone memos

FILE - This Nov. 8, 2011 file photo shows a Predator B unmanned aircraft landing after a mission, at the Naval Air Station, in Corpus Christi, Texas. At the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, becoming a fighter pilot is still a hotly coveted goal. But slowly, a culture change is taking hold. Initially snubbed as second-class pilot-wannabes, the airmen that remotely control America's arsenal of lethal drones are gaining stature and securing a permanent place in the Air Force. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Obama orders the Justice Dept. to share info about drone-strike assassinations. Read More ...

Military tactics, arms helped rescue Ala. hostage

In this undated photo released by the FBI on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, a tent covers the bunker where where a 5-year-old child was held for a week by Jimmy Lee Dykes in Midland City, Ala. The boy was rescued and his captor was killed when federal agents raided the bunker on Monday. (AP Photo/FBI)

Within hours after an armed, angry man shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy, workers feverishly unloaded boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an array of guns from a windowless DC-9 that had landed just miles from the suspect's isolated compound. Read More ...

AP sources: House Dems to offer gun control plan

Customers look over the last two AR-15 style rifles for sale inside the Bullet Hole gun shop in Sarasota

House Democrats will unveil 15 proposals for curbing gun violence that resemble President Barack Obama's plan and will include a call for banning assault weapons, people familiar with the package said Wednesday. Read More ...

Bells and booze: What do you get the drone war chief?

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2010 file photo, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan briefs reporters at the White House in Washington. Brennan, now President Barack Obama's nominee to be CIA director, withdrew from consideration for the job in 2008 amid criticism over the agency's use of harsh interrogation techniques, like waterboarding, against terrorist suspects. This time, in 2013, he's making it clear he strongly opposes such practices. Former and current U.S. intelligence officials say Brennan wasn't so vocal a decade ago. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

The governor of the Mexican state of Jalisco gave a bottle of José Cuervo Platino, a high-end tequila. Elias Murr, described only as “foreign official,” gave a “crystal clock. Read More ...

Closest 'alien Earth' may be in our backyard

Closest 'Alien Earth' May Be 13 Light-Years Away

An Earth-like alien planet could be just 13 light-years or so away. Read More ...

Worldwide cyber crime ring disrupted

A computer keyboard is seen in Bucharest

Microsoft and Symantec say they stopped a global operation by secretly shutting down servers. Read More ...

Magnitude 6.2 aftershock strikes near Solomon Islands

In a photo provided by Work Vision, a village is destroyed in the area of Lata, Temotu province, Solomon Islands after a powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 generated a tsunami of up to 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) that damaged dozens of homes and left at least four people missing and presumed dead in the South Pacific island chain. (AP Photo/World Vision)

It's the latest in a series of aftershocks following a major tremor that sparked a tsunami. Read More ...

Acapulco rape case overshadows peak tourist season

Police investigators work to obtain fingerprints on a door at the home where masked, armed men broke in, in Acapulco, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 5, 2013. According to the mayor of Acapulco, five masked men burst into this house that Spanish tourists had rented on the outskirts of Acapulco, in a low-key area near the beach, and held a group of six Spanish men and one Mexican woman at gunpoint, while they raped the six Spanish women before dawn on Monday. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez)

Six Spanish women were raped by masked gunmen during a vacation at a resort. Read More ...

Ex-LAPD cop suspected in killing of coach, fiancé

This undated photo provided by Cal State Fullerton on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, shows Cal State Fullerton assistant women's NCCA college basketball coach Monica Quan in Fullerton, Calif. Quan and her fiance Keith Lawrence were found shot to death Sunday night on the top floor of a parking structure at the complex, police said. (AP Photo/Cal State Fullerton)

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Police said Wednesday night they are looking for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in the shootings of a Cal State Fullerton basketball coach and her fiancé, and they say the man is armed and dangerous. Read More ...

Boy Scouts of America delays vote on ending ban on gays

Scout statue at the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving

The Boy Scouts of America on Wednesday delayed to May a vote on whether to end a longstanding controversial ban on gay participants, giving a membership deeply divided by the possible change more time to air their concerns. Board members for the private youth organization, which turns 103 years old on Friday, had been expected to vote on the matter at a meeting on Wednesday. The Boy Scouts upheld the ban just last year amid sharp criticism from gay rights groups. ... Read More ...

Lawsuit: Answering calls, scanning emails deserves OT pay Does scanning emails and answering calls from bosses on your smartphone after hours constitute work that should be compensated? A lawsuit winding its way through federal court in Chicago says that it does. Read More ...

Texas prison escapee caught after 16 years

This undated photo taken by Mexican Authorities and provided Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Juan Salaz. Salaz, a Texas prison escapee on the run for almost 16 years, has been captured by authorities in Mexico and awaits extradition to the U.S. to finish serving his sentence on charges of attempted capital murder of a police officer, state Department of Criminal Justice officials said Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)

He now awaits extradition to finish serving his sentence on charges he attempted to murder a police officer. Read More ...

Photos: A tribute to the Postal Service

Arkansas Senate passes bill to make gun-permit records private LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled Arkansas state Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would exempt from public disclosure the names and zip codes of gun owners, those with permits to carry concealed guns and permit applicants. The bill comes in response to the controversy late last year over a New York newspaper's decision to publish the names and addresses of thousands of gun permit holders on its website after a shooting rampage at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school that killed 20 children and six adults. ... Read More ...

7 Calif. deputies to be fired for roles in clique LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seven Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies from an anti-gang unit have been notified that the department intends to fire them for being members of a secret law enforcement clique that allegedly encouraged unethical conduct. Read More ...

Slain Newtown teachers honored for heroism

Teresa Rousseau wipes tears from her eyes while talking about her daughter Lauren Rousseau during an interview with the Associated Press at her home in Danbury, Conn., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. Lauren Rousseau, 30, a teacher, was one of 26 people killed in the Dec. 14, 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Lauren Rousseau will be one of six educators from the school honored posthumously with the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, presented at a White House ceremony on Feb. 15. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 08/02/2013

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