A 2007 shooting-and-evacuation drill included volunteers with simulated injuries at a middle school in Alameda, Calif. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.) By Ken Klippenstein While the gun violence debate has focused on how to stop the epidemic of school shootings, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking a different approach: teaching school children how to adapt to them. The DHS …
Kansas County Official: Public Will Not View Tabulation of Provisional Ballots
Kansas Republican gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach, with his wife Heather Kobach, on election night in Topeka. Kobach, Kansas’s secretary of state, ultimately recused himself from oversight of the contested vote count and potential recount. (Photo: Steve Pope/Getty Images.) By Jennifer Cohn Officials in Johnson County, Kansas, said Sunday the public would not be permitted on Monday to view the county’s …
FEMA Recommendations Stand to Benefit Agency Chief’s Former Employer
FEMA Administrator Brock Long is calling for greater private-sector disaster response after last year’s hurricane damage to Puerto Rico, such as this road collapse in Barranquitas, photographed in October 2017. (PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: Getty Images photos by Joe Raedle, left, and Chip Somodevilla.) By Jonathan Larsen The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is calling for greater involvement by the private sector …
It’s Not Just Bolton and Giuliani: Trump Team’s Links to Iran ‘Cult’ Run Deep
Federal documents show MEK met with top Trump officials in addition to National Security Adviser John Bolton and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, seen here honoring slain MEK members at a 2013 UN rally. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images.) By Ken Klippenstein President Trump is known for his tough talk on terrorism, having gone as far as threatening family members of suspected …
GEO Group Federal Contracts Rise As Former Sessions Aide Lobbies DOJ
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on July 30, 2018. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. By Alex Kotch A former legislative aide to now–Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been lobbying his former boss’s Department of Justice on behalf of a private-prison giant that has seen its DOJ contracts increase under the Trump administration. Roughly two months before Donald Trump won the …
Ben Shapiro ‘Owns the Libs’…But Who Owns Him?
Ben Shapiro at Politicon on July 30, 2017, in Pasadena, California. Photo by John Sciulli/Getty Images for Politicon. By Alex Kotch Ben Shapiro’s been called a conservative “wunderkind,” a “cool kid’s philosopher,” and a “principled gladiator.” While these types of profiles tend to ascribe some kind of preternatural persuasive skill to Shapiro, the reality is that his path to success …
Giuliani, Bolton Repeatedly Met With Group Formerly Designated a Cult-Like Terror Organization
Rudy Giuliani speaks during a memorial in NYC on September 24, 2013, for members of Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK). MEK says that 52 of its members were killed on September 1, 2013, in Iraq. Current National Security Advisor John Bolton also spoke at the event. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images. By Ken Klippenstein Close Trump associates have been quietly meeting with …