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By By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, on June 18th, 2013 John Martorano, known as The Executioner, the longtime hit man for James (Whitey) Bulger, testified as a star witness for the prosecution in Boston on Monday.
Continue reading At Trial, Hit Man Says ‘It Broke My Heart’ to Learn Bulger Was an F.B.I. Informer
By , on June 18th, 2013 After Monday’s Miss Universe competition, watch good, bad, and ugly moments from beauty contests.
Continue reading 15 Hilariously Embarrassing Pageant Moments
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By VINDU GOEL and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER, on June 18th, 2013 Apple joined the list of companies that have disclosed information about government surveillance, but many questions remain unanswered.
Continue reading More Data on Privacy, but Picture Is No Clearer
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man loudly ranted about national security, the CIA and international spying while on a flight from Hong Kong to the US on Monday, causing passengers to tackle him and bind his hands and feet. Passengers said the FBI met United Airlines Flight 116 as it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the major airports serving New York City, and escorted the man away. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Passenger tackled on Hong Kong-US flight after CIA rant
By Kevin Fallon, on June 18th, 2013 The .GIF of DiCaprio dancing in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ trailer is the latest example of Leo being Mr. Cool.
Continue reading Leo’s Most Baller .GIFs
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BOGOTA, Colombia — Wednesday will mark the one-year anniversary since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadoran embassy in London. And he appears to be no closer to leaving. On Monday, British and Ecuadoran officials said they could not agree on what to do with Assange, who is fighting extradition to Sweden and seeking asylum in the Andean nation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading British, Ecuadoran officials at odds over WikiLeaks founder
By By FERNANDA SANTOS, on June 17th, 2013 A company plans to excavate a landfill in the New Mexico desert where Atari is rumored to have dumped millions of copies of the video game E.T. after it flopped in 1983.
Continue reading Alamogordo Journal: Hunting for an E.T. Castoff in a Most Terrestrial Place
By John Avlon, on June 17th, 2013 Younger voters and independents have soured significantly on the president in the last month, writes John Avlon.
Continue reading Obama’s Poll Numbers Plummet
By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Defiant and apparently unbowed by threats of prosecution, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed Monday to release more secrets about U.S. intelligence surveillance systems that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” Snowden, who has been hiding in Hong Kong, said NSA analysts routinely obtain emails and other Internet communications of Americans as part of the cyberspying agency’s surveillance of global telecommunications and Internet traffic. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Snowden vows more disclosures about US surveillance
By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) — A man loudly ranted about national security, the CIA and international spying while on a flight from Hong Kong to the U.S. on Monday, causing passengers to tackle him and bind his hands and feet. Passengers said the FBI met United Airlines Flight 116 as it landed at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the major airports serving New York City, and escorted the man away. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Witness: Man who disrupted flight ranted about CIA
By Tom Sykes, on June 17th, 2013 Charles Saatchi has accepted a police caution for assaulting his wife, Nigella Lawson
Continue reading Saatchi Admits Assault
By By DALIA SUSSMAN, on June 17th, 2013 A majority of Americans oppose supplying military aid to Syrian rebels, but they are not paying much attention to the situation there, new national polls find.
Continue reading The Caucus: Americans Are Reluctant to Aid Syrian Rebels, Polls Show
By Matt Gallagher, on June 17th, 2013 A new novel captures the anguish and emotional turmoil of a mother’s relationship with her Navy SEAL son. Matt Gallagher salutes Lea Carpenter’s “Eleven Days” and says it joins the first rank of war fiction.
Continue reading The Anguish of a SEAL’s Mother
By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON — Edward Snowden, the former U.S. government contractor who leaked secret details of official surveillance programs, pledged Monday to release more information about U.S. intelligence-gathering methods that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.” “All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,” Snowden wrote in an online chat hosted by Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Snowden calls US intelligence ‘aggressively criminal’
By By BARRY MEIER, on June 17th, 2013 Independent reviews of clinical trial data concluded that Infuse, a bioengineered bone product, was not significantly better than a traditional bone graft, and that it might pose risks.
Continue reading Outside Review of Clinical Data Finds a Spinal Treatment’s Benefit Overstated
By Emily L. Hauser, on June 17th, 2013 Emily Hauser on the Palestinian day-laborer who was ambushed by Israeli soldiers and their attack dogs on the Palestinian side of Israel’s security barrier.
Continue reading Where Israeli Attack Dogs Lie in Wait
By By STEPHEN CASTLE and JACKIE CALMES, on June 17th, 2013 As leaders announced the efforts toward a trade pact on Monday, a dispute over whether Europe’s movie industry would be protected highlighted the sensitivity of the negotiations.
Continue reading U.S. and Europe to Start Ambitious but Delicate Trade Talks
By By ADAM NAGOURNEY, on June 17th, 2013 The Los Angeles restaurant embodies the argument that eating sensibilities are changing, prompting a desire for more cultivated dining.
Continue reading With Trois Mec, Ludo Lefebvre Has a Place to Call His Own
By Blake Gopnik, on June 17th, 2013 The Daily Pic: David Horvitz shows sunset and sunrise from opposite points on the globe.
Continue reading A Gift to Galileo
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Obama: Secret data gathering ‘transparent’
<!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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