Ellsberg: No leaks more significant than Snowden's
Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg calls the revelations by a government contractor on U.S. secret surveillance programs the most "significant ...
News Summary: Civilian planes shot down by MANPADS
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is now thought to possess the SA-7, a surface-to-air missile in the category of MANPADS, or man-portable air-defense ...
Booz Allen says it's fired Snowden after NSA leak
Government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton said Tuesday that it has fired Edward Snowden, the employee who leaked details of a secret National Security ...
Media: No mistaking how NSA story reporter feels
The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. government eavesdropping sought to break the story through a columnist for a U.K.-based publication ...
Senate committee approves USTR nominee
The Senate Finance Committee has approved Michael Froman, a law school classmate of President Barack Obama and a senior White House economic adviser, ...
Boehner doesn't buy White House timetable on IRS
House Speaker John Boehner says it is "inconceivable" that top White House officials didn't tell President Barack Obama once they learned the Internal ...
Senate passes farm bill, moving debate to House
The last time Congress passed a farm bill, Democrats had control of the House and the food stamp program was about half the size it is today. That was ...
Hagel: Budget forces review of outside contracts
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Pentagon is reviewing all private contractors as the department deals with budget cuts and the lucrative ...
Lung transplant vote for children seeks balance
Faced with a federal judge's order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national review board ...
Price of oil edges downward from $96 per barrel
Oil prices edged down Tuesday after a credit-rating upgrade of U.S. government debt led investors to speculate that the U.S. central bank might ...
New Zealand PM: We don't use NSA to illegally spy
Responding to the government-surveillance controversy engulfing New Zealand's security-alliance partners in Washington, Prime Minister John Key said ...
What's the problem with PRISM?
When the federal government went looking for phone numbers tied to terrorists, it grabbed the records of just about everyone in America. Why every ...
US secrets leaker has options to stay in Hong Kong
The American defense contractor who says he leaked information on classified U.S. surveillance programs could benefit from a quirk in Hong Kong law ...
Feds: All girls to have morning-after pill access
The federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy ...
US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad
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 ...
Threat forces LA-to-Texas flight to land in Ariz.
A "telephonic bomb threat" against a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas, resulted in the plane being diverted to Phoenix on ...
US transplant network resists lung rule changes
The national organization that manages organ transplants on Monday resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on ...
Hillary Clinton joins Twitter
Twitter, meet (at)HillaryClinton. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joined Twitter on Monday, describing herself with a dash of humor ...
1 wounded in shooting at US Army post in Texas
An instructor at an Army medical training school at a military base in Texas was wounded Monday when a fellow service member shot her outside her ...
Manning trial resumes as new leak scandal unfolds
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial for giving hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks entered its second week Monday in a ...
2 Obama cabinet nominees clear Senate committee
A Senate committee has voted unanimously to approve President Barack Obama's nominees to head the Commerce and Transportation departments.
Cleanup work after BP oil spill end in 3 states
Cleanup work has ended in three of the states affected by BP PLC's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Monday.
Merkel, Obama to discuss NSA surveillance program
Germany's chancellor will raise the issue of the U.S. National Security Agency's eavesdropping on European communications when she meets President ...
Correction: Nicaragua-Canal story
In a story June 8 about Nicaragua's plans to build a canal, The Associated Press misidentified the university where Jason Bittner is director of the ...
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