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US Senate passes half-trillion dollar farm bill 66-27
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Senate on Monday passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and pea...
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Zimmerman’s attorney walks tight defense line
SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman’s lead attorney will be walking a fine line as he tries to convince jurors that his client didn’t murder Trayvon Martin: He needs to show why Zimmerman felt threate...
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Industry prepares for hiring spree
DETROIT — The auto industry is about to go on a hiring spree as car makers and parts suppliers race to find engineers, technicians and factory workers to build the next generation of vehicles. T...
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Associated Press Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander (center right), then-commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, arrives at a Capitol Hill committee hearing in 2010 in Washington to testify about cyberspace operations. Alexander now directs the National Security Agency, whose job it is to use the world's most cutting edge supercomputers and arguably the largest database storage sites to crunch and sift through terabytes of data, whether it was stolen from a foreign official's laptop by a CIA officer overseas, or intercepted by a Navy spy plane flying off the Chinese coast, or, as Americans found out this week, secreted from your personal phone records.
NSA: Mistakes can happen
WASHINGTON — The supersecret agency with the power and legal authority to gather electronic communications worldwide to hunt U.S. adversaries says it has the technical know-how to ensure it’s not i...
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Report: NSA, CIA contract employee leaked information
WASHINGTON A 29-year-old contractor who claims to have worked at the National Security Agency and the CIA allowed himself to be revealed Sunday as the source of disclosures about the U.S. governmen...
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Timeline of revelations about US domestic spying
President Barack Obama is defending secret government programs that sweep up Internet data and millions of Americans’ phone records in their search for foreign terrorists. A timeline of controve...
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In this Tuesday, June 4, 2013, photo, Lycoming College historian, John Piper, left, and Janet Hurlbert, dean and director of the Snowden Library, look over a certificate signed by Abraham Lincoln in the college archives in Williamsport, Pa. The document naming the school's founder as a Civil War chaplain resurfaced after going missing years ago. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)
Lost Lincoln document found at college
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — In losing a president, Lycoming College found a piece of its history. Retiring President James Douthat was cleaning out a closet in his office last week when he stumbled on a...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk at the Annenberg Retreat of the Sunnylands estate Saturday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. While saying it is critical that the U.S. and China reach a "firm understanding" on cyber issues, Obama told reporters his meetings with Xi have been "terrific."
Obama, Xi discuss cybersecurity
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Barack Obama used an unusually lengthy and informal desert summit to present Chinese President Xi Jingping with detailed evidence of intellectual property theft em...
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Associated Press Reem Dahir takes a peek at fiancee Abraham Ismail's laptop as they chat at a Starbucks cafe on Thursday in Raleigh, N.C. The young couple understands the need for surveillance to prevent terrorist attacks, but they worry the government went too far by gathering secreting gathering phone data from millions of Americans.
Since 9/11, life — and surveillance — made easier
Americans’ expectations of privacy have diminished remarkably since Sept. 10, 2001 — and only partly because of what happened the next day. Laws were passed to take up the fight against shadowy ...
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Judge weighs voice experts in Zimmerman trial
SANFORD, Fla. — A Florida judge suspended until Monday a hearing to determine if voice-recognition specialists will be allowed to testify at George Zimmerman’s trial. Circuit Judge Debra Nelson ...
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