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US intelligence chief James Clapper admits agents do collect communications from internet firms, but the policy only targets "non-US persons".

North Korea continued to ease off the aggression pedal on Thursday by pledging to re-open a Red Cross communication line from South Korea and organize talks between the two countries in a border city.

Bolivian villagers bury man alive in grave of woman he allegedly raped and murdered

They are free -- at last. After 234 years, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan today corrected a historical wrong by signing a bill into law that posthumously grants 14 African slaves their freedom. As cannons and morta...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Two people were found dead Friday in a burned home near Santa Monica College, where someone sprayed a street corner with gunfire, wounding at least four people, authorities said.

Vishal Thakkar is suing an Oklahoma clinic and doctor, seeking damages for medical expenses.

A Texas actress has been arrested in connection with allegedly ricin-tainted letters that were mailed last month to President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, federal law enforcement sources said F...

Government rounded on after disclosure that highly-classified system supplied eavesdropping headquarters with information Ministers are under mounting pressure to explain whether they authorised GCHQ to gather intelligen...

A report that the UK agency has gained access to the US Prism system causes concern, with one MP calling it "deeply alarming".

To paraphrase Joseph Heller: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't surveilling you.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Friday proposed working-level talks with South Korea to be held in a border city on Sunday as the rivals look to mend ties that have plunged during recent years amid hardline sta...

A comet's extremely close encounter with the Sun gives scientists a look at a region that has never been visited by spacecraft.

Today in showbiz news: This planned Archie Comics movie is troubling, Denzel Washington gets back into action, and Justin Timberlake is a college student?

A U.S. attorney today recommended a four-year prison sentence and the forfeiture of $750,000 for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois.

At least six people were transported to hospitals when gunfire erupted near Santa Monica College west of Los Angeles Friday. Two bodies were found inside a home near campus that the gunman allegedly set on fire, authorit...

Although the National Security Agency is incredibly secretive and could probably care less what you think, it does have an interest in helping our kids become great mathematicians. The NSA is the largest employer of math...

As websites like Netflix and Amazon are in the news for changing the way television is distributed, shows like Jeannie Mai's new Style Pop, co-hosted with Louise Roe on Style Network, are doing their part to disrupt trad...

Jim Morrison who famously slithered around in tight pants on stage, was known as The Lizard King. Now scientists have named an enormous lizard after the late great rock star.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- News that the U.S. government has been snooping on Internet users worldwide came as little surprise to global netizens, who said Friday they have few expectations of online privacy as governmen...

By day, Khalid Albaih works in a museum. After hours, he is a cartoonist with an attitude, inspiring discontented youth across the Arab world.

Sen. Joe Manchin said Friday he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign in the wake of a series of scandals involving surveillance of reporters for Fox News and The Associated Press.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Melissa Jones almost made it.