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Most dangerous places to live in America
A series of maps have been published illustrating the most deadly places in America. The data may look spectacular laid out in colorful graphics, but...
Eunice Huthart: Angelina Jolie double sues News Corp over phone hacking
Eunice Huthart, former Hollywood stunt double, has sued News Corp, accusing the company of hacking into her phone. The suit, the first such claim from...
Night Stalker Richard Ramirez died of lymphatic system cancer when he turned green
Night Stalker Richard Ramirez, who terrorized Southern California in the mid-1980s, also had Hepatitis C and symptoms of chronic drug use when he died...
Vladimir Putin accused of stealing Super Bowl diamond ring
Vladimir Putin has hit back at allegations he stole a diamond-encrusted Super Bowl ring from billionaire Robert Kraft, the owner of New England Patriots. Robert...
Edward Snowden denies being a Chinese agent and defends leaking NSA secrets in live chat
Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who leaked documents on US surveillance programmes, has defended himself in an online chat, the Guardian reports. Edward Snowden, 29,...
Newark-bound United Airlines passenger claims to have poisoned everyone on board
A passenger on board of Newark-bound United Airlines flight has claimed to have “poisoned everyone on board”. The suspect is being restrained by others on...
Apple discloses details of data requests from US authorities
Apple has decided to publish details of data requests from the US authorities. Apple is the latest tech firm to disclose the US government requests...
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...
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