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Brian Castner served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer in the U.S. A...
'The Life That Follows' Disarming IEDs In Iraq
Brian Castner commanded two Explosive Ordnance Disposal units in Iraq, where his team disabled roadside IEDs and investigated the aftermath of roadside car bombings. He returned home a completely different man, which he details in his memoir, The Long Walk.
Brian Castner served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer in the U.S. A...
'The Life That Follows' Disarming IEDs In Iraq
Brian Castner commanded two Explosive Ordnance Disposal units in Iraq, where his team disabled roadside IEDs and investigated the aftermath of roadside car bombings. He returned home a completely different man, which he details in his memoir, The Long Walk.
'Internship': A Love Story To Nooglers
The movie, The Internship, tells the story of two 40-year-old, down-on-their-luck watch salesmen, who land an unlikely summer internship at Google. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as the older interns who will have to compete for a full-time gig. Meanwhile, more than a thousand new Googlers or Nooglers have shown up on the company's campuses across the country.
May's Unemployment Rate Expected To Hold Steady
The government's monthly jobs report comes out Friday morning. Economists estimate that employers added about 170,000 jobs in May. They anticipate the jobless rate staying at 7.5 percent.
The History Behind America's Most Secretive Court
The revelations this week of surveillance of phone traffic by the NSA is the latest episode in the history of America's most secret court. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created to address surveillance abuses revealed in the 1970s. Civil liberties groups complain the court is not providing enough protection against unwarranted surveillance.
Intelligence Community Mines Phone Records, Internet Data
Over the past two days, there have been revelations about the way the National Security Agency is gathering information for intelligence. While details of both programs are still coming out, the data collection practice appears to be legal. But it could be the beginning of something new in the intelligence community. And that is, the use of data to find patterns analysts might have missed.