China-linked hackers appear to have gained access to sensitive background information submitted by U.S. intelligence and military personnel for security clearances that could potentially expose them to blackmail, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
A woman employee of an upstate New York prison on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges that she helped two inmates stage a daring escape from the maximum security facility.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday granted Louisiana's request to block the immediate release of the last of the so-called Angola Three prisoners, a man who has spent most of four decades in solitary confinement charged with the 1972 killing of a prison guard.
A raging battle over President Barack Obama's request for "fast-track" authority central to improving U.S. ties with Asia resumes in the House of Representatives next week when lawmakers are expected to try to reverse Friday's defeat of linchpin trade legislation.
