Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new MQ-9 Predator B, an unmanned surveillance aircraft system, unveiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), takes ...

Author Mark Bowden writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Though unmanned, remote-controlled drones had been used in times of war since World War II, they were revolutionized in 1995. The Gnat, ...

FT. HUACHUCA, Ariz. – When MQ-9 Predator drones flew over anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles this summer, it was the first time since 2020 that they had been dispatched to monitor demonstrations on U.S.

As part of the massive deployment of federal law enforcement and even active duty troops to Los Angeles, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations (AMO) department has been ...

As the anti-ICE protests rage on in DTLA Credit: Volodymyr Shcerbak via Adobe Stock As the anti-ICE protests rage on in DTLA, DHS appears to be using predator drones to capture the scene. Volodymyr ...

Los Angeles, the city of sprawling protests and political resistance, was subject to scrutiny last weekend—this time, in the skies. Flight trackers and aircraft data showed that an MQ-9 Reaper, a ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection began flying the MQ-9 Reaper, or Predator B, in 2005 and uses it primarily to survey the southern border. [Courtesy: General Atomics] Federal authorities are turning ...

As Trump’s shock troops invade Los Angeles, his administration is using every tool at its disposal to attack and surveil the political protests taking place in the city’s streets. That apparently ...

Right-wing conspiracy theorists once believed the government was using drones to surveil its own citizens. President Donald Trump actually did. During ongoing demonstrations in Los Angeles against ...