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North Korea's bunk satellite could float out of control for years

December 18, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV arrow It is now safe to call the North Korean satellite "space junk." The rogue country's successful launch last week of a "space object" quickly tumbled out of control and, well, it's spiraling somewhere over your head right now — and it might not stop floating around up there for the ...

Petraeus will testify about Benghazi tomorrow

November 14, 2012 NBC News has a Senate source telling them David Petraeus will be appearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, where a closed hearing on the terror attack in Benghazi is on the schedule. CNBC's Ryan Ruggiero's tweeted that scoop comes from a "veteran senator" Fox News has confirmed that ...

Why we can't relax about this one glitchy voting machine in Pennsylvania

November 6, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV arrow There's a viral video going around of a voting machine in Pennsylvania that seems like its rigged—it switches votes from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney. It's just one machine, but it's also perfectly encapsulates people's Election Day fears. Here's the video: And from the description on Youtube: From the top ...

The White House denies ordering a secret report clearing Huawei of espionage

October 18, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV arrow Cue the conspiracy theories: Reuters says it got its hands on "a White House-ordered review of security risks posed by suppliers to U.S. telecommunications companies" that cleared Chinese telecom giant Huawei of allegations of actively spying on the U.S. government. But we're not quite sure what to make of the ...

Syrian government enlists text message spam

September 27, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV arrow Leaving no form of warfare unexplored, Syrian forces employed a teenage form of warfare and sent out a text-message blast to phones across the country that said "Game over" on Thursday, reportedly the bloodiest day of the country's 18-month civil war. "The texts appear to be part of the regime's ...

Study claims drones haven't made Americans any safer

September 25, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV arrow A new study by law professors at Stanford and New York University found that drones strikes have killed far more civilians in Pakistan than the U.S. has acknowledged and that the program has a "damaging and counterproductive effect." The crux of the study released on Tuesday, entitled "Living Under Drones", ...

Americans are so fat, we need bigger MRIs

September 18, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV arrow We've constantly been told that obesity is one of the leading causes of health problems in the United States, today the Wall Street Journal reports on a new wrinkle on that obesity-health connection, as they found that some hospitals don't have equipment strong enough to deal with their injured, obese ...

Letting gays and lesbians serve openly hasn't hurt the military, study finds

September 10, 2012 It's almost been one year since President Obama repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell and the first academic study of the policy change has found that the repeal hasn't affected retention, recruitment, or harassment in the military. In other words, the military is just fine after gays and lesbians were allowed ...

Pentagon shares non-disclosure agreement Navy SEALs sign

September 7, 2012 The latest in the legal fight between No Easy Day author and former Navy SEAL Matthew Bissonette and the Pentagon, a Defense Department spokesman shared with Reuters the nondisclosure agreement that they say they make SEALs sign. The document found here, is fascinating for the majority of us that are ...

NASA can explain why the world won't end, still mystified by Internet commenters

September 4, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV arrow Dr. David Morrison is well-educated, smart, and was an astronomer at the University of Hawaii for 17 years before heading to NASA in 1988. For the past four years, as The Awl's Dan Duray reports, Morrison's day job has involved answering over 5,000 e-mails from concerned earthlings regarding doomsday and ...