Obama: Gov’t records sweep not targeting Americans

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Published
June 8, 2013

Obama: Gov’t records sweep not targeting Americans

President Barack Obama declared Friday that America is "going to have to make some choices" balancing privacy and security, launching a vigorous defense of formerly secret programs that sweep up an estimated 3 billion phone calls a day and amass Internet data from U.S. providers in an attempt to thwart terror attacks.
Published
June 8, 2013

Police: Santa Monica gunman acted alone

Police say a gunman who killed four people in Santa Monica before officers shot him dead acted alone, and investigators have released a man who had been detained as a "person of interest."
Published
June 7, 2013

Texas actress charged in Obama ricin threat

A pregnant Texas actress who first told the FBI that her husband sent ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, then allegedly said she sent them because her husband "made her" do it, was charged Friday with threatening the president.
Published
June 7, 2013

Obama says US, China must develop cyber rules

President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday that it is critical that their countries reach a "firm understanding" of how they will work together on cybersecurity, a contentious issue between the world powers.
Published
June 7, 2013

Ohio man faces 329 charges in missing women case

A man accused of holding three women captive in his run-down home in Cleveland for a decade and fathering a child with one of them has been indicted on 329 charges including murder, kidnapping and rape, prosecutors said.

Published
June 7, 2013

Andrea bringing rain, flood watches to East Coast

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season drenched the Southeastern U.S. but caused no major damage on Friday, marching up the East Coast as it brought the threat of weekend flooding as far north as New England.
Published
June 5, 2013

Official says 12 hurt, 2 still trapped in Philadelphia building collapse

Philadelphia’s fire commissioner says 12 people have minor injuries after a building collapse on the edge of downtown Wednesday and that officials are still working to extricate two other people from the rubble.
Published
June 5, 2013

Connecticut lawmakers OK compromise Newtown privacy bill

State lawmakers passed an 11th-hour compromise bill early Wednesday, the final day of the legislative session, preventing the release of crime-scene photos and video evidence from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre and other Connecticut homicides.
Published
June 4, 2013

Namesake lauds passage of military sexual-assault compensation bill

Ruth Moore, who said she was never properly treated for sexual assaults she suffered while serving in the Navy, praised House passage on Tuesday of a compensation bill named after her.
Published
June 4, 2013

US House passes military sexual-assault reporting compensation bill

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill named for a Maine woman that aims to make it easier for veterans who were sexually assaulted to receive compensation.