surveillance

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The criminal complaint includes several images taken from surveillance cameras that show Moreno-Gama at both locations.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

“Risk is accumulating in a way that current surveillance isn’t capturing,” said Evan Eskew, a disease ecologist at the University of Idaho and a co-author of the study.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

The U.S. can track the movements of commercial vessels with surveillance tools, open-source data and military assets as they leave the Persian Gulf and exit the Strait of Hormuz, according to retired Navy Vice Adm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

At 2:23 a.m. on Nov. 29, 2019, a surveillance camera at MI6’s London headquarters recorded movement on the fifth-floor balcony of a luxury development on the other side of the Thames.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Warily watching the British in Boston, “Washington frequently had Billy Lee remove his mahogany and brass spyglass from its handsome leather case so he could engage in surveillance of his adversary,” biographer Ron Chernow records.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis