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Yahoo had refused to join PRISM spying program but was forced by secret court
It was revealed that Yahoo's top lawyers had a courtroom showdown with the National Security Agency after it had demanded information on certain foreign...
Kent Holcomb: Truck driver stuck on Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel during extreme weather
Kent Holcomb, a truck driver from Hampton Roads, was left stranded on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia on Thursday afternoon after harsh thunderstorms...
Facebook and Microsoft reveal US government data requests
Facebook revealed today that it received 9,000-10,000 requests for user data from US government entities in the second half of 2012. The social-network said the...
Barack Obama’s Africa trip: Washington Post revised story about Tanzanian safari
It appears the Washington Post on Friday revised the story about Barack Obama’s trip to Africa with no note to the reader about the...
Barack Obama’s trip to Africa could cost tax payers up to $100 million
President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa this month could cost the tax payers anywhere from $60 million to $100 million, according to the Washington...
Charla Nash denied permission to sue Connecticut for $150 million over chimpanzee attack
Charla Nash, who lost her eyesight, lips, nose, and hands when she was mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009, has been denied permission to...
Barack Obama approves arms for Syria rebels
The White House has announced today that President Barack Obama has approved for the first time a direct military aid to the Syrian opposition. President...
White House: Syria used chemical weapons against opposition rebels
The White House said today that Syrian forces under President Bashar al-Assad have used chemical weapons "on a small scale" against the opposition rebels. A...
Edward Snowden case: FBI head Robert Mueller pledges action over leaks
FBI Director Robert Mueller says the US is taking "all necessary steps" to hold Edward Snowden responsible for exposing secret surveillance programmes. Robert Mueller confirmed...
Edward Snowden South China Morning Post interview: U.S. government has been hacking Chinese networks for four years
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed that the U.S. government has been hacking Hong Kong and Chinese networks for at least four years. In his first...
Xiang Li sentenced to 12 years in prison in US over $100 million software scam
Chinese national Xiang Li has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in US for selling more than $100 million of pirated US software. Xiang...
Facebook, Google and Microsoft urge US government to allow them to disclose security requests
Facebook, Google and Microsoft have asked the US government to allow them to disclose the security requests they receive for handing over user data. The...
Erin Brockovich mugshot after drunken boating arrest
Erin Brockovich - who was famously portrayed by Julia Roberts in a movie about her life - has apologized for her drunken boating arrest...
Lindsay Mills: Edward Snowden left his girlfriend in Hawaii and fled to Hong Kong to leak NSA secrets
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked the NSA's surveillance secrets, thought about marrying his girlfriend Lindsay Mills and had previously taken her on a...
Edward Snowden: FBI agents visit his father’s home after he leaves The Mira hotel in Hong Kong
FBI agents visited the Pennsylvania home of Edward Snowden's father and stepmother, just hours after the 29-year-old NSA whistleblower checked out of his plush...
Major US security leaks
Pentagon papers, 1971: Daniel Ellsberg leaks study showing the government had knowledge it was unlikely to win Vietnam war Watergate, 1972: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reveal extent...
Edward Snowden says he acted to protect basic liberties for people around the world
Ex-CIA employee Edward Snowden has said he acted to "protect basic liberties for people around the world" in leaking details of US phone and...
S&P lifts US credit outlook from negative to stable
Standard and Poor's has raised its credit outlook for the US economy from negative to stable. In August 2011, S&P downgraded the US rating one...
John Zawahri pictured: Santa Monica college gunman was upset over his parents’ recent divorce
John Zawahri - the gunman accused of going on a shooting spree in Santa Monica Friday that left four people dead, among them his...
Edward Snowden: Former CIA technical worker identified as NSA PRISM leak source
Edward Snowden, a former CIA technical worker, has been identified by the UK's Guardian newspaper as the source of leaks about US surveillance programmes. Edward...
Why did Night Stalker Richard Ramirez’s skin turn green before his death?
Richard Ramirez’s skin color turned “a shocking shade of green” before his death from liver failure on Friday. Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, 53, spent 24...
John Zawahri: Santa Monica College shooter caught on surveillance video entering library
Surveillance footage shows Santa Monica College shooter John Zawahri, entering the campus library, clearly carrying a large firearm. He killed four people including his own...
Ariel Castro will plead “not guilty” to 329 charges
Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro will plead “not guilty” to 329 charges, including kidnapping and rape. On Friday, Ariel Castro, 52, was indicted on 329...
Shannon Guess Richardson: Ricin mailing suspect was caught by FBI tracking system that photographs every item of mail
The FBI teamed up with the US Postal Service to track down ricin mailing suspect Shannon Guess Richardson using a system that snaps pictures...
Barack Obama and Xi Jinping end a “unique, positive and constructive” Sunnylands summit
President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have ended a two-day summit in California, which was described by US National Security Advisor Tom...
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