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A former Air Force intelligence analyst was sentenced to 45 months in prison on Tuesday for leaking top secret information about the U.S. government's drone strike program to a journalist. Daniel Hale of Nashville, Tennessee, said he was motivated by guilt when he told investigative reporter of a military drone program he believed was indiscriminately killing civilians in Afghanistan to an investigative reporter. The prosecution is one in a series of cases the Justice Department has brought in recent years against current and former government officials who have disclosed classified secrets to journalists.  As in other other leak cases, the arguments Tuesday were less about whether Hale illegally shared information - he has openly acknowledged having done so - and more on whether the action harmed national security and the extent to which his motives should be taken into position. Prosecutors have argued that Hale, who deployed to Afghanistan in August 2012 and was honorably discha

Walmart on Tuesday announced it will pay the full cost of college tuition and books for its roughly 1.5 million full- and part-time employees, effective Aug. 16. The largest private U.S. employer said it would be investing $1billion over the next five years into career development for its employees and drop the current $1-a-day fee workers are required to pay to take part in the company's higher education program. The announcement comes as consumer demand is soaring as the U.S. economy reopens from the COVID-19 pandemic, deepening a national labor crunch, with employers, particularly in the retail and food service industry, adding incentives as they struggle to keep enough workers.  Walmart employees can choose from 10 different college partners, such as the University of Arizona, Southern New Hampshire University, Penn Foster and Purdue University among others through its Live Better For U program.  Walmart said Tuesday it was offering free college education through its Live Bette

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has signed a bill into law saying residents can't be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access public facilities, benefits or services. Supporters say the bill signed this week establishes 'medical freedom' by specifying that all residents have the 'natural, essential and inherent right to bodily integrity, free from any threat or compulsion by government to accept an immunization.' The law does not, however, supersede the state law regarding vaccinations as a prerequisite for admission to school. That law lists seven required vaccinations but does not currently include the COVID-19 vaccine. The new law also does not apply to county nursing homes, the state psychiatric hospital or other medical facilities operated by the state or other governmental bodies.  New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has signed a bill into law saying residents can't be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access p

Amber McDaniel, 31, turned herself in to police on July 8 on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and tampering with evidence The mother of a two-year-old boy has been has been charged in connection with his death after she allowed her son to stay with her boyfriend, despite him telling her he wanted to 'cull' the boy, and had beaten the child in the past. Little Jason Wilder McDaniel, 2, was found dead on October 11 of 2018 laying on the floor beside his crib at the Texas home of boyfriend James Staley III with blood smeared around his mouth, on the floor and on an adult-sized pillow inside the crib. Staley is charged with murdering the toddler and is currently on bail. Now Amber McDaniel, 31, has been charged with child endangerment and evidence tampering, after prosecutors found a series of disturbing text messages between the couple, according to an indictment filed on July 22.  Staley wrote that the two-year-old should be 'culled,' called him racial slurs,

D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone slammed his fist on the table and called the treatment of his colleagues 'disgraceful' during the first hearing of Nancy Pelosi's January 6 committee.   Fanone - who was tased, beaten, stripped of his badge and suffered a heart attack - said those who are denying the violence that occurred at the Capitol are ' their oath of office.' 'The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful,' Fanone said. 'Nothing, truly nothing, has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day.'  He also told the panel that he feared the rioters would strip his gun from him and kill him with his own weapon during the attack. Fanone recounted how some in the crowd helped him, when he worried he would die and told them about his daughters. 'I thought about using my firearm on my attackers, but I knew that if I did, I would be quickly overwhelmed in that in th

Sky Sports football pundit Graeme Souness has won the latest round of his battle to build a luxury house in the garden of his £3million seaside mansion. The former Liverpool and Rangers star was given the go-ahead by planners two years ago to build the separate home, despite objections from his next door neighbour. The three-bedroom house will include a gym, steam room, plunge pool and double garage, and will overlook the millionaire's playground of Poole Harbour, Dorset. The Sky Sports pundit found himself in hot water with his neighbour once again when he submitted a new application to amend plans for his building project. Souness, 68, applied to change the pitch of the roof and the position of a staircase. Sky Sports football pundit Graeme Souness has won the latest round of his battle to build a luxury house in the garden of his £3million seaside mansion Souness was given the go-ahead by planners two years ago to build the separate home in the garden of his mansion in Poole,

A stunning investigation has revealed the details of a Ku Klux Klan murder plot that was foiled by an FBI informant who had infiltrated the white supremacist group. The 2015 plot, which resulted in the conviction of two klansmen who worked as prison guards in Florida as well as their 'Exalted Cyclops', was foiled by the FBI before they could carry out the plan to murder a black former inmate.  A confidential informant had infiltrated the group, and his recordings provide a rare, detailed look at the inner workings of a modern klan cell and a domestic terrorism probe. That investigation would unearth another secret: An unknown number of klansmen were working inside the Florida Department of Corrections, with significant power over inmates, black and white. Florida prison guards Thomas Driver and Dave 'Sarge' Moran were convicted in the 2015 KKK murder plot alongside 'Exalted Cyclops' Charles Thomas Newcomb On a humid August day in 2013, Thomas Driver took a pul