this is aljazeera america. good morning. live from new york city, i m randall pinkston. the government is beefing up security today after one of the largest data breaches in history, hackers made their way into the files at the office of personnel management, taking personal information from at least 4 million current and former federal workers. investigators are saying evidence points to china being responsible, but this morning china is saying that accusation is irresponsible. mike viqueira has the latest. this information started to break late thursday when the office of personnel management, the human resources department for the entire federal government reports that they had discovered a breach. in april they updated their cyber security protocols and discovered the breach but it had begun in september affecting some 4 million federal employees, both past and present. they say in a statement in part as a result of the incident, o.p.m. will send notifications to 4 mi
courtroom. a state judge heard oralarguments on the state law that allowed gov. dave heineman to approve the e keystone xl pipeline through nebraska rather than the state commission that regulates most other pipelines. pipeline developer transcanada announced this month it will re-apply to the commission for state approval, but landowners who oppose the project say they still want the law declared invalid because they believe dangerous and unconstitutional. jenna: one of the top college basketball programs in the nation is at the center of a sex scandal. and one woman involved is speaking outut raising questions about ththteam s recruiting methods. abc s elizabeth hur has more . ((sot)) side deals were sex, and if they wanted to make extra money, that s what the side deal was? sex. sharing shocking claims.. alleging the college basketball porhouse university of louisville cardinals, hired female escorts totototorecruits.. is katina powell. claiming the team s former direc
this as a tete and it needs to include fixes that ensure we do not experience constant leadership challenges and while the former vp candidate says speaker? democrats are still waiting for president to make up his mind about whether he will run for president - but biden raised eyebrows tuesday by saying for the firir time that he had advised presididt obama to go forward with thehe 2011 raid that took out osama bibiladen biden: told him my opinion that i thought he should go but to follow his own instincts. that directly contradicts what biden has said in the past - that obama courageously went ahead despite the misgivings of his closest advisers, including biden himself. biden, jan 2012: i said, we owe the man a direct answer. mr. president, my suggestion is, don t go. biden (may 2011): ladies and gentlemen, i said wait another seven days for the following information. biden (may 2012): i wanted him to take one more day to do one more test to see if he was there.
leading in that one also to be honest with you matt. trump has often said during the campaign that the challenges of the world, including isis atrocities, don t leave much room for a candidate to worry about having the proper tone. next year s session of the iowa legislature will be the last for state representative ron jorgensen. the republican announced today that he will not seek re-election to the iowa house in 2016. jorgensen represents house district 6, which includes morningside, sergeant bluff, bronson and salix. he was first elected to the iowa house in 2010 and has been re-elected twice. the past three years, he s served as chairman of the house education committee. jorgensen says it s been an honor and privilege to serve. but, after six years, it s time to step aside and let someone else represent district 6 in the legislature. he says he will miss the people he met in the house chamber. i ve gotten to know all of them very well and they re all differently a lo
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