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Security Breach Podcast

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September 19, 2025

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Northrop Grumman Opens New Factory to Expand Missile Making in West Virginia

September 26, 2025

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Why Predicting Tariffs Is a Dead End, and What to Do Instead

September 26, 2025

America is facing serious workforce shortages in almost all manufacturing industries.

If Trump's America First Program Works, Where Will We Get the Workers?

September 26, 2025

Security Breach Podcast

Security Breach Podcast

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September 19, 2025

This photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity shows a Tiehm's buckwheat plant near the site of a proposed lithium mine in Nevada, May 22, 2020.

U.S. Advances Review of Nevada Lithium Mine Amid Concerns Over Endangered Wildflower

It could become the third lithium mine in the U.S.

April 23, 2024

In this undated photo provided by NASA, a satellite captures the Railroad Valley (RRV), a dry lakebed in Nevada, for conducting ground-based calibration of Earth-observing satellite instruments.

NASA Opposes Lithium Mining in Nevada

The site is used to calibrate razor-sharp measurements of hundreds of satellites orbiting overhead.

June 23, 2023

Melissa Boerst, a Lithium Nevada Corp. geologist, points to an area of future exploration from a drill site at the Thacker Pass Project in Humboldt County, Nev., Sept. 13, 2018.

Judge Affirms Stricter Interpretation of Federal Mining Law

The new ruling blocks a metals mine in Nevada.

April 13, 2023

Exploration drilling continues for Permitting Lithium Nevada Corp.'s Thacker Pass Project on the site between Orovada and Kings Valley, in Humboldt County, Nev., shown beyond a driller's shovels in the distance, Sept. 13, 2018.

Court Denies Emergency Bid to Stop Nevada Lithium Mine

Opponents say the government illegally approved it in a rush to produce raw materials for electric vehicle batteries.

March 2, 2023

In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity, is a laydown area for drilling operations within Tiehm's buckwheat critical habitat in Esmeralda County, Nev., Dec. 26, 2022.

Lithium Miner Cited for Violating Endangered Flower Habitat

Five days after the U.S. Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to the company, federal land managers cited it for trespassing.

January 20, 2023

This photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity taken in June 2019, in the Silver Peak Range of western Nevada about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas shows Tiehm's buckwheat growing in the high desert where a lithium mine is planned.

Feds Launching Review of Mine at Site of Endangered Flower

Federal land managers are reviewing new plans the developer says will allow the mine and flower to co-exist.

December 22, 2022

In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity, Tiehm's buckwheat grows in the high desert in the Silver Peak Range of western Nevada about halfway between Reno and Las Vegas, in June 2019, where a lithium mine is planned.

Nevada Flower Listed as Endangered at Lithium Mine Site

It's the only place the flower is known to exist.

December 15, 2022

A pair of work pants, possibly made by or for Levi Strauss, from the S.S. Central America are seen in a warehouse in Sparks, Nev., on May 4, 2022.

Pricey Work Pants from 1857 Go for $114,000, Raise Levi's Questions

There's disagreement about whether they have any ties to the father of modern-day blue jeans, Levi Strauss.

December 14, 2022

In this photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity is a bleached sandhill skipper in the meadows at Baltazor Hot Spring in Humboldt County, Nevada, taken on Sept 13, 2021. Conservationists who are already suing to block a geothermal power plant where an endangered toad lives in western Nevada are now seeking U.S. protection for the rare butterfly at another geothermal project the developer plans near the Oregon line.

Protection Sought for Rare Butterflies at Geothermal Plant Site

First it was an endangered toad, now it's a butterfly.

August 17, 2022

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed designating the high-desert range halfway between Reno and Las Vegas as critical habitat for the Tiehm's buckwheat. It is also the site of a proposed lithium mine by the Australian-based Ioneer USA Corp.

U.S. Backs Rare Flower Habitat Amid Nevada Lithium Mine Fight

The mine would help produce lithium batteries for electric vehicles.

February 4, 2022

In this Oct. 13, 2018, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nev. A Russian citizen has pleaded guilty to offering a Tesla employee $1 million to get malware into the electric car company's plant in Nevada and enable a ransomware attack. Attorneys representing Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov did not immediately respond Friday, March 19, 2021, to messages about his Thursday plea in U.S. District Court in Reno.

Russian Pleads Guilty to Tesla Ransomware Plot

He offered a Tesla employee $1 million to cripple the electric car company’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada.

March 19, 2021

In this June 11, 2020 file photo Wynn Whitmeyer of the Idaho Falls Fire Department uses a drip can to ignite cheat grass and tumbleweeds during a controlled burn east of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Environmentalists have filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S government to block plans to build up to 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) of fuel breaks they claim would violate the Endangered Species Act in a misguided effort to slow the advance of wildfires in six Western states.

Group Moves to Sue US Gov't Over Fuel Break Plan

Fuel breaks involve clearing stretches of vegetation to slow the progress of fires.

January 14, 2021

Exterior view of the Tesla factory in Fremont, California.

Russian Pleads Not Guilty in Foiled Tesla Ransomware Plot

He's accused of offering a Tesla employee $1 million to enable a ransomware attack at the company's plant.

September 25, 2020

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Big Nevada Gold Mine Expansion On Hold

Environmentalists say the expansion could prove catastrophic to wildlife, cultural resources and nearby high-desert springs.

August 10, 2020