A controversial ICE policy that would have stripped international students of their visas if their college exclusively offered online classes amid the coronavirus pandemic has been rescinded.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Greg Ehrie, a 22-year veteran of the FBI, has been hired by the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish organization, as vice president of Law enforcement and Analysis. In this role, Ehrie will lead efforts to “further partnerships and engagement” with federal, state and local law enforcement across the country and supervise new…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Scott Sweetow, who heads up ATF’s St. Paul, Minn., office is moving up the chain. He”ll be taking over the job as Deputy Assistant Director for ATF’s Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information (OSII). His new responsibilities will include ATF’s partner engagement liaison with the intelligence community, overseeing ATF’s foreign operations…
Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com A recent study by researchers from Northwestern University and Harvard University Medical School has concluded that even moderate use of marijuana by…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI had a crisis on its hands. Several bomb threats were sent via email to Harvard University, causing the school to close buildings during final exams. The student accused of sending in the threat, sophomore Eldo Kim, took steps to hide his identity using two anonymity tools – the routing service Tor…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Harvard University student who wasn’t prepared for his final exam decided to buy himself some time. On Monday, Eldo Kim, 20, emailed threats that claimed there were “bombs placed around campus” about a half hour before his test, NBC News reports, citing the FBI. Sure enough, the alarms rang at 9…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Allison Leotta, a Detroit native living in the D.C. area, likes to send her parents in Michigan a draft of her new novels — minus the chapters with the steamy sex scenes. “I take out those chapters,” says Leotta, a Michigan State University graduate. But her mother, Diane…
Prof. Amy Bishop/university photo By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s hard to think of a biology teacher as a dangerous person. Boring? Long winded? Possibly. But dangerous? Well, not only did biology professor Amy Bishop allegedly kill three colleagues and wound three more in a shooting rampage at the University of Alabama in Huntsville on Friday,…
