Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents searching for evidence of a 30-year-old mob murder said they found possible human remains in a New York home once occupied by a famous gangster, the Associated Press reports. The Queens house was once home to James Burke, a Lucchese crime family associate known as “Jimmy the Gent” and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged for the first time that the bureau uses surveillance drones inside the U.S., the L.A. Times reports. Testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Mueller said remotely piloted aircraft are used “in a very, very minimal way and very seldom.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, called…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Customs and Border workers won’t be forced to take furloughs this year as originally feared, Government Executive reports. CBP employees, who initially faced 14 furlough days in fiscal 2013, dodged the forced days off through appropriations approved by Congress. It was good news for the more than 20,000 CBP workers who feared…
For style mavens, dressing children is just another way to flex their creative muscles and demonstrate their sartorial nous. Their little darlings’ wardrobes are carefully edited mixes of Breton tops (from COS and Petit Bateau), traditional knits (from Caramel Baby Child or The Little White Company) and perfectly plain chinos. While many parents dress their…
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, warned Wednesday that dismantling the National Security Agency’s once-secret program that is keeping records of billions of domestic phone calls by Americans would slow down investigators as they seek to stop terrorist attacks. Testifying before…
