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Journalist in US surveillance case: More to come
The journalist who exposed classified U.S. surveillance programs leaked by an American defense contractor said Tuesday that there will be more ...
Apple unveils music streaming service
Apple unveiled an Internet radio service called iTunes Radio on Monday and said the service will personalize listeners' music based on what they've ...
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 ...
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 ...
Apple revamps look of iPhone, iPad software
Apple is throwing out most of the real-world graphical cues from its iPhone and iPad software, like the casino-green "felt" of its Game Center app, ...
APPLE EVENT: New software, MacBooks, music
Apple announced a digital radio service, new MacBook Air laptops and updates to its operating systems for Mac and mobile devices Monday.
'Multi-talented' Neil Patrick Harris rocks Tonys
The reviews are in: It was a great Tony Awards. The dancing was inspired, the singing top-notch and the humor sly — and that's just for the host.
Journalist: Snowden fled US fearing unfair trial
The American intelligence contractor who disclosed U.S. government surveillance programs fled to Hong Kong because he believed he wouldn't get a fair ...
Tony Awards viewership jumps up to 7.24 million
CBS' Tony Awards telecast saw viewership jump to 7.24 million people, the show's largest audience in four years. According to preliminary Nielsen ...
Reports: 11-year term for Kuwait woman over tweets
Kuwait opposition groups say a woman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after convictions that include insulting the Gulf nation's ruler and ...
Cable operators buff up guides for Internet age
After years of making money providing Internet service, cable TV companies are now tapping the power of the Internet to improve clunky program guides ...
Study: Nonprofit news sites need business help
The growing number of nonprofit news websites say they need more help from business experts than journalists. Many of the reporting sites relied on ...
NSA contractor risks steep jail time for data leak
The man who gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national debate on ...
Ukrainian pianist and Cliburn winner credits mom
Playing the piano at age 5 certainly wasn't Vadym Kholodenko's idea, but after his mother took him to a music school, he quickly grew to love it while ...
Report: NSA contract worker is surveillance source
A 29-year-old intelligence contractor who claims to have worked at the National Security Agency and the CIA allowed himself to be revealed Sunday as ...
Newark Mayor Booker formally joins NJ Senate race
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who formally declared his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Saturday, now finds himself competing in a primary against ...
NSA revelations force question: What do we want?
For more than a decade now, Americans have made peace with the uneasy knowledge that someone — government, business or both — might be watching.
Denials in surveillance program require decoding
Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet's most influential companies ...
US officials long denied massive data trawling
Top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations have repeatedly denied in recent years that the National Security Agency collected massive caches ...
Obama: Gov't records sweep not targeting Americans
President Barack Obama declared Friday that America is "going to have to make some choices" balancing privacy and security, launching a vigorous ...
Guardian makes splash in US with security scoops
Before this week, the Guardian newspaper's gradual move into the U.S. — hiring dozens of employees in the last two years — hadn't produced much of a ...
Hezbollah entry in Syria fans Shiite-Sunni fires
The Egyptian cleric was in a fervor. With Hezbollah's Shiite fighters helping Bashar Assad crush Syrian rebels, he wanted to sound the alarm to Sunnis ...
Appeals court says USTR can withhold document
An appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Trade Representative can withhold a classified position paper prepared during free-trade negotiations, ...
Campaign staffer: Booker getting in NJ Senate race
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who has used his social-media and political savvy to gain national prominence, is in the race to finish the U.S. Senate term ...