SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Attorneys suing Google say the firm violates privacy and takes personal property by electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmail accounts and then targeting ads to them. “This company reads, on a daily basis, every email that’s submitted, and when I say read, I mean looking at every word to […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago teenager already facing terrorism charges in what prosecutors describe as an attempt to bomb a downtown bar will be arraigned on new charges after authorities say he tried to have an undercover FBI agent killed. Adel Daoud is scheduled to appear in Chicago federal court today, a week after […]

WASHINGTON President Obama’s proposed authorization for the use of force appears to be straightforward: “deter, disrupt, prevent and degrade” the future use of chemical weapons by Syria. Yet at the same time, Obama — and a growing number of members of Congress, which is slated to vote on the proposal next week— insists that U.S. […]

The Department of Defense announced the deaths of two soldiers supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. — Staff Sgt. Michael H. Ollis, 24, of Staten Island, N.Y., died Aug. 28, in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device, small arms and indirect fire. He was assigned to the […]

WASHINGTON Attorneys for a midshipman at the center of a sexual assault case against three ex- Navy football players have asked in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that the Naval Academy’s superintendent not be involved in deciding whether the men will be court-martialed. The lawsuit seeks a court order directing Vice Adm. Michael Miller to […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia President Barack Obama is using his last day in Europe to renew his quest for foreign support for a U.S. military strike in Syria. But three days after he left Washington, it’s unclear whether the global coalition the president has been seeking is any closer to becoming a reality. Putting up stiff […]

BRUSSELS In a setback for Western efforts to tighten sanctions against Iran, a top European Union court today threw out penalties imposed on several Iranian businesses for their alleged ties to the country’s disputed nuclear program. The ruling by the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg coincided with an announcement by the EU’s top diplomat that […]