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First lawsuit filed against NSA and Verizon

First lawsuit filed against NSA and Verizon


First lawsuit filed against NSA and Verizon

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 09:48 AM PDT

NSA leaks: US preparing to file criminal chargesCurtis and Mary Ann Strange's son was killed in Afghanistan in 2011.


Rubio amendment toughens English requirement for immigrants

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 09:10 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2011 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks in Washington. Rubio is address House conservatives Wednesday afternoon June 5, 2013 on a far-reaching immigration bill. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida announced Tuesday he will introduce an amendment to the immigration reform bill that would require all immigrants to prove they were proficient in English before they could receive permanent legal immigration status. Rubio's amendment would significantly change the sweeping bill and would make it harder for millions of immigrants [...]


Al-Qaida may have feared weapon

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:19 AM PDT

In this March 29, 2013 photo provided by the French Army's images division, ECPAD, a French soldier holds the launch tube of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile before its destruction in Timbuktu, northern Mali. The knowledge that the terrorists have the weapon has already changed the way the French are carrying out their five-month-old offensive in Mali. They are using more fighter jets rather than helicopters to fly above its range of 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) from the ground, even though that makes it harder to attack the jihadists. They are also making cargo planes land and take off more steeply to limit how long they are exposed, in line with similar practices in Iraq after an SA-14 hit the wing of a DHL cargo plane in 2003. (AP Photo/ECPAD, Olivier Debes)A manual found in Mali has a 'Dummies Guide' to surface-to-air missiles.


Wyden cites contradiction in eavesdropping answer

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 10:13 AM PDT

This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. The Guardian identified Snowden as a source for its reports on intelligence programs after he asked the newspaper to do so on Sunday. (AP Photo/The Guardian)WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the staunchest critics of government surveillance programs said Tuesday that the national intelligence director did not give him a straight answer last March when he asked whether the National Security Agency collects any data on millions of Americans.


Leaker faces hard choices while in hiding

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 05:02 AM PDT

HONG KONG (AP) — Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about U.S. surveillance programs, has few options to stay one step ahead of the authorities while in apparent hiding.

Taliban bomber in Kabul kills 17 at Supreme Court

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 10:47 AM PDT

Afghan men gather at the site after a suicide car bomber struck outside the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. A Taliban suicide bomber killed more than a dozen people outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday in the second attack in two days in the heart of Kabul, a fresh blow to Afghan security forces' ability to keep security without help from international troops. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber struck outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday, killing 17 people in the deadliest attack in Kabul in over a year and a half.


In South Africa, talk of Mandela's mortality

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:16 AM PDT

Tourists visit a temporary exhibit on Nelson Mandela at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg Tuesday June 11, 2013. Former South African President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The desk is spotless and books neatly line the shelves in Nelson Mandela's office at a Johannesburg-based foundation that carries his name, but the former South African president and anti-apartheid leader hasn't worked there for years.


Police renew sweep through Istanbul square

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 10:54 AM PDT

A petrol bomb explodes in front of riot policemen during clashes in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Hundreds of police in riot gear forced through barricades in Istanbul's central Taksim Square early Tuesday, pushing many of the protesters who had occupied the square for more than a week into a nearby park. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)ISTANBUL (AP) — Riot police are re-entering Istanbul's Taksim Square after defiant protesters swarmed back in by the thousands.


Bombs hit Syrian capital amid regime offensive

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 11:11 AM PDT

In this citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, buildings are seen destroyed from Syrian forces shelling in Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported clashes between rebels and regime forces in the rebel-held neighborhood of Dar-al-Sayah in Homs city, resulting in casualties among the opposition fighters. The group also reported fighting in Aleppo early Tuesday in what appeared to be a regime attempt to storm two neighborhoods held by the opposition. (AP Photo/Lens Young Homsi)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Twin suicide bombers targeted a police station in the center of Damascus Tuesday, killing 14 people as regime forces aggressively pressed ahead with an offensive on rebel strongholds elsewhere in the country. The rush hour blasts, which caused extensive damage to cars and storefronts, demonstrated the ability of insurgents to strike deep in the heart of President Bashar Assad's regime despite a series of recent setbacks on the battlefield.


Mandela daughters visit ill father in hospital

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 09:44 AM PDT

Tourists visit a temporary exhibit on Nelson Mandela at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg Tuesday June 11, 2013. Former South African President Nelson Mandela is spending a fourth day in a hospital, where he is being treated for a recurring lung infection. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Doctors are doing all they can to improve Nelson Mandela's health as the 94-year-old icon spent a fourth day in the hospital for a recurring lung infection, South Africa's president said Tuesday, as two of Mandela's daughters visited their father.


Obama exhorts Congress to act on immigration

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 10:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon June 11, 2012 were on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the far-reaching landmark immigration bill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama prodded Congress Tuesday to send him a bill by fall remaking the nation's immigration laws, even as the Senate prepared to cast its first floor votes on the landmark measure opening a door to citizenship for millions.


SKorea: Talks with North scrapped over negotiators

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 06:23 AM PDT

South Korean Unification Ministry officials talk at the venue for the Koreas' first high-level meeting at Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 11, 2013. South Korea said its planned talks with North Korea have been scrapped on their eve because of a stalemate over who will lead each delegation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Koreas' first high-level talks in years have been scrapped because of a stalemate over who will lead each delegation, South Korea said Tuesday, a day before they were to begin. The cancellation is a blow to tentative hopes that the rivals were about to improve ties following years of rising hostility.


EU air traffic plan prompts strikes across Europe

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:17 AM PDT

Passengers wait for a flight at Marseille-Provence Airport, in Marignane, southern France, Tuesday, June 11, 2013, as France's main airports have cut their flight timetables in half to cope with a three-day strike by air traffic controllers. The Civil Aviation Authority said that some 1,800 flights were cut Tuesday to protest against a plan to centralize control of Europe's air space. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)PARIS (AP) — The European Union's plans to speed up the consolidation of its airspace are prompting a continentwide strike of air traffic controllers.


Feds now back morning-after pills for all girls

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 03:26 AM PDT

Graphic originally moved June 6 and resending for related story; shows use of emergency contraception pill by ageNEW YORK (AP) — After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups upset that a Democratic president had sided with social conservatives, the Obama administration said it will comply with a judge's order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.


Police crush barricades in Istanbul square

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:35 AM PDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of riot police overran improvised barricades at Istanbul's Taksim Square on Tuesday, firing tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons in running battles with protesters who have been occupying the area for more than a week.

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