The programs are far less sweeping than alleged, and data is destroyed every five years, they say.

BEIJING – With Edward Snowden in Hong Kong dribbling out morsels on U.S. cyber surveillance activities to the media, Chinese authorities have several choices for dealing with him. Their options include offering asylum to the former U.S. contractor, who says he leaked National Security Agency secrets and is expected to face criminal charges; interrogating him; […]

CAIRO Syria’s sectarian conflict causes Egypt to sever ties Egypt’s Islamist president announced Saturday that he was cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and closing Damascus’ embassy in Cairo, decisions made amid growing calls from hard-line Sunni clerics in Egypt and elsewhere to launch a “holy war” against Syria’s embattled regime. Mohammed Morsi told thousands […]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death. The standoff […]

Advocates score a victory when the Social Security Administration no longer requires proof of surgery.

CHICAGO — Jeffery Lynn Berry, who as leader of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led marches on town squares that cost municipalities thousands of dollars in security costs, has died at age 60. Berry died May 31 from lung cancer at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., said the Cook […]