Public disclosures about U.S. government surveillance threaten the ability of police to use powerful new technologies such as drones and mobile license plate readers.
In an effort to reduce traffic and improve accountability, Venice is requiring the installation of GPS devices in 5,000 of the city's gondolas and water taxis.
Armed with a knife, a man attempted to force his way into Buckingham Palace today through the North Gate, the main everyday entrance to the palace to the right of the ornate central gates, according to The Daily Beast.
The Central Intelligence Agency will begin recalling furloughed civilian workers needed to carry out the spy agency’s core missions today, according to CIA Director John Brennan. He also remarked that keeping staffing at its current dramatically reduced level “would pose a threat to the safety of human life and the protection of property.”