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US spy programs raise ire both home, abroad
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist t...
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Dad tragically shot
PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — A 4-year-old boy who was visiting Prescott Valley with his dad grabbed a loaded handgun from a television stand, asked what it was and pulled the trigger, killing the man i...
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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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FedEx Rates Raising
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — FedEx Corp. said its freight unit will raise rates by 4.5 percent beginning July 1. The move follows Jan. 7 rate increases in its FedEx Express air shipment business and FedEx G...
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Zimmerman
Jury selection begins in trial
SANFORD, Fla. — On the first day of his trial Monday, George Zimmerman got a look at some of the people who might decide whether he committed second-degree murder when he fatally shot 17-year-old T...
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Developers look over new apps being displayed on iPads at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, June 10, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software
MICHAEL LIEDTKE PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green “felt...
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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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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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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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