Rebecca Santana

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  • Nasa rocket at launch padSuccess

    Want a career in the U.S. government? These are the best and worst agencies to work at, according to a survey of over 1 million federal employees

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Sundar PichaiTech

    ‘Google is winning because it’s better,’ lawyer tells antitrust judge. His response: that’s odd

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Piet De Staercke, from back right to left, with his wife Jill Bornauw, their eldest son Stan De Staercke, watch their youngest Tuur de Staercke, get screened by a Custom Border Protection officer, right, in the port of entry at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Va. Monday, April 1, 2024. The Belgian family of four, used the Mobile Passport Control app, the newest technology in international travel, to ease their way to their port of entry. Within minutes they had bypassed a long line of people waiting at the airport’s passport control and were waiting for their luggage. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)Tech

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expanding screening tech to keep up with ever-growing post-pandemic flood of passengers

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • TOPSHOT – US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin looks on during a joint press conference with Israel’s defence minister, in Tel Aviv on December 18, 2023. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)Finance

    U.S. forces kill Houthi rebels attacking Maersk container ship in Red Sea, Lloyd Austin calls for ‘collective action’

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Emergency test systemTech

    Here’s why the government just pinged your phone or TV with ‘THIS IS A TEST’

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • US President Joe Biden speaks during an eventPolitics

    Biden administration will give temporary legal status to 472,000 Venezuelan migrants, making it easier for them to work

    By Rebecca Santana, Elliot Spagat, and others
  • At 6:30 AM, half an hour before the doors open at the Federal Building in Westwood people are already lined up in an effort to process their passportsFinance

    If you still need a valid U.S. passport in 2023, prepare for an unplanned excursion into the nightmare zone

    By Laurie Kellman, Rebecca Santana, and others
  • FILE – Haitian migrants camp out at the Giordano Bruno plaza in Mexico City, May 18, 2023. The group was staying at a shelter in Mexico City on their way north but were forced to make camp at the park after the shelter closed. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)Politics

    Texas is suing the Biden administration to toss its new asylum rule because it says the phone app encourages illegal immigration

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Travelers wait in line at a Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport security checkpoint to use the Transportation Security Administration’s new facial recognition, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Glen Burnie, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)Tech

    The TSA is testing facial recognition technology in 16 airports across the country as critics say it’s a ‘risk to civil liberties and privacy rights’

    By Rebecca Santana, Rick Gentilo, and others
  • A person inserts an ID card while demonstrating the Transportation Security Administration’s new facial recognition technology at a Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport security checkpoint, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Glen Burnie, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)Tech

    TSA tests facial recognition technology at airports as lawmakers criticize increased surveillance and demand stop to program

    By Rebecca Santana, Rick Gentilo, and others
  • TSASuccess

    18 a day—guns intercepted by TSA hit all-time high at 6,542 in 2022. ‘You should know where your gun is at, for crying out loud.’

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • HALF MOON BAY, CA – USA: Police cordon off the crime scene of a mass shooting that left seven people dead and one injured on Monday, in Half Moon Bay, California, United States on January 24, 2023. Seven people were fatally shot Monday in San Mateo County, California, marking the second mass shooting in three days in the state, authorities said.The shooting incident was reported at two separate locations, with four people being killed at a farm and three more victims found dead in a different area. A 67-year-old man named Zhao Chunli was identified as the suspect and taken into custody, the San Mateo County Sheriffâs Office said in a tweet. He was found in his car in a parking lot and a weapon was also found in the vehicle. The latest shooting followed the killing of 11 people last Saturday in a dance studio in Monterey Park during Lunar New Year celebrations in the city. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Politics

    ‘It’s just happening way too often’: Analysis of mass shootings finds the same warning signs ‘over and over again’

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Fire departmentHealth

    ‘America is still burning’: Fire departments are struggling to recruit as climate change and modern materials make the job deadlier than ever

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press
  • Beachgoers survey the damage Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Daytona Beach Shores, Fla., as hotel and condo seawalls and pool decks along the Volusia County coastline were gutted by Hurricane Ian last week. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)Environment

    Hurricane Ian leaves over 500,000 businesses and homes still without power

    By Rebecca Santana and The Associated Press