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US officials long denied massive data trawling

YoopyaJun 8, 2013August 11, 20240

WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations dismissed fears about secret government data-mining by reassuring Congress that there were

Obama defends broad phone, Internet spy programs

YoopyaJun 8, 2013August 11, 20240

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Americans to “make some choices” in balancing privacy and security as he defends once-secret surveillance programs that

FBI: Wife tried to frame husband for ricin letters

YoopyaJun 8, 2013August 11, 20240

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Shannon Richardson had been married to her husband less than two years when she went to authorities and told them her

Andrea’s rain spawns flood warnings on East Coast

YoopyaJun 8, 2013August 11, 20240

NEW YORK (AP) — Soaking rains that spawned numerous flood warnings pushed some streams and creeks over their banks throughout the Northeast, yet the first

Obama defends phone data collection program

YoopyaJun 7, 2013August 11, 20240

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vigorously defended the government’s newly disclosed collection of massive amounts of information from phone and internet records on Friday

US employers add 175K jobs, rate up to 7.6 pct.

YoopyaJun 7, 2013April 8, 20230

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in May- a steady pace that shows strength in the face of tax increases and government

Calif. utility will close troubled nuclear plant

YoopyaJun 7, 2013August 11, 20240

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant on the California coast is closing after an epic 16-month battle over whether the

Was IRS targeting limited to Cincinnati office?

YoopyaJun 7, 2013August 18, 20240

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigators are starting to see cracks in the Internal Revenue Service argument that a small group of agents in the Cincinnati

In California, Obama and Xi seek to build new ties

YoopyaJun 7, 2013August 18, 20240

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — Seeking a fresh start to a complex relationship, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping are retreating to a

White House defends collecting phone records

YoopyaJun 6, 2013August 18, 20240

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday defended the National Security Agency’s need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, calling such information “a