Tim Mak

IAm Michael Hastings, a reporter for BuzzFeed and a writer for Rolling Stone.

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Michael Hastings Dead at 33

rollingstone.com — Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Hastings' unvarnished 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling Stone, " The Runaway General," captured the then-supreme commander of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan openly mocking his civilian commanders in the White House.

InhofePress: Sen. Inhofe w/ a Sikorsky S-70i ...

twitter.com — Sen. Inhofe w/ a Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk. Sikorsky Training Academy will begin operations on Sept. 6 in Altus, OK. pic.twitter.com/IN8CFROI1x

Unions eyeing fight on role of federal contractors

politico.com — Unions representing federal employees are gearing up for a battle against government contractors after the revelation that the National Security Agency leaks came from a 29-year-old at Booz Allen Hamilton. More and more work has shifted from the federal government to contractors in recent years in an effort to cut down the size of government, and the...

Houston man jailed over threats to Ted Cruz

chron.com — An intern at Cruz's Austin office told investigators that a man called the office on June 5, saying that Cruz "owed him money or a bomb would explode," according to an arrest warrant filed in the case. In a June 10 interview at his Houston apartment with an agent with the Federal Protective Services, Gates admitted to making the phone calls, prosecutors said.