Following the leak of classified government documents by contractor Edward Snowden, private cyberexperts have prompted tighter internet security and changes to the NSA’s surveillance practices, but they say the Obama Administration has fallen short in checking the cyber snoops.
A vote on legislation that would create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants who serve in the military was halted in Congress by House Republicans, setting back President Barack Obama’s efforts to push comprehensive immigration proposals into law.
Jeb Stuart Magruder, a Watergate conspirator who claimed in later years to have heard President Richard Nixon order the office break-in, has died. He was 79.
Robert Petzel, the top official for veterans health care, resigned Friday amid a firestorm over reported delays in care and falsified records at veterans hospitals. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki accepted the resignation, but critics immediately called it an empty move.
In the wake of the recent wildfires in Southern California, state fire officials have uncovered the cause of one fire, but say it could take months to determine the origin of the more damaging blazes.
On an island where most people have no Internet access, the arrival of mobile phone email service was embraced with joy.
A 57-year-old man has been charged with arson in one of 10 wildfires that swept the San Diego region this week.
Political leaders in a New Hampshire town have officially joined residents in demanding the resignation of a police commissioner who uttered a racial slur about President Barack Obama.
For the past 4,618 days —and counting— an EarthCam has been situated at Ground Zero in New York City capturing the recovery effort after the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001.
Thousands of years ago, a teenage girl toppled into a deep hole in a Mexican cave and died. Now, her skeleton and her DNA are bolstering the long-held theory that humans arrived in the Americas by way of a land bridge from Asia, scientists say.
A minivan carrying nine people rolled and crashed early Friday on Utah’s main east-west highway near the Colorado border, killing four people and injuring four others. Police were investigating whether the vehicle was involved in human smuggling.
A man was shot four times by police inside a northern Utah hospital emergency room Friday after he made demands and pulled out two guns, authorities said.
Federal safety regulators slapped General Motors with a record $35 million fine Friday for taking more than a decade to disclose an ignition-switch defect in millions of cars that has been linked to at least 13 deaths.
Charity Johnson, the 34-year-old who posed as a teenager to enroll in at a small private high school in East Texas, has been arrested on charges of giving false information to police.
In an effort to raise worker wages to $15-an hour, labor organizers turned up the pressure on McDonald’s and other fast-food chains on Thursday, with plans to stage actions in more than 30 countries.
