29-year-old Edward Snowden, the former CIA computer technician, and self-proclaimed whistleblower, reportedly gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national firestorm over the weekend
President Obama defended the U.S. policy's long-standing Internet and phone monitoring programs as valuable tools in an effort to fight terrorism, deflecting criticism that government intrusion to people's phone calls has been too overreaching.
Nouel Alba, a 37-year-old Bronx woman who posed as an aunt of a Sandy Hook victim, pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud and to lying to FBI agents, federal prosecutors in Connecticut said, as reported by CNN. Alba reportedly solicited donations on behalf of one of the young victims, Noah Pozner, in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history
Six people were killed when a building being demolished collapsed Wednesday onto an adjacent Salvation Army edifice on 22nd Street and Market in downtown Philadelphia,
