Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists’ phone records
The Associated Press on Monday said the U.S. government seized records from phone lines assigned to AP offices and its reporters over a period of two months in 2012, which the news service described as a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.”
Cold shower for Iceland porn users as government considers ban
Iceland is set to become the first Western democracy to ban online pornography, with a draft law to be completed in March.
White House implements new rules to prevent prison rape
U.S. prisons and other facilities where residents are forcibly confined must put in place standards to prevent thousands of incidents of sexual abuse.
U.S. accuses Apple, publishers of e-book price fixing
Was Apple price fixing e-books?
White House denies alien contact, but says they’re looking into it
Do you believe that extraterrestrials have made contact with life on Earth? The government says it hasn’t happened.
Indians rally in protest against government corruption
Protests swelled across India yesterday in support of a self-styled
Gandhian anti-corruption campaigner fasting to death in jail, with Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh’s struggling government at a loss over how to
end the standoff.
John Edwards owes $2M, federal audit determines
The Federal Election Commission approved a final audit on Thursday that
concludes former presidential candidate John Edwards’ campaign owes the
government more than $2 million.
‘Just a citizen’ soon for five on Council
Five of seven Council members who took D.R.O.P. pension program are leaving behind City Hall.
Plan to cut US’s $1.4T deficit begins to form
Republican and Democratic lawmakers held their first meeting aimed at
cutting the bloated U.S. deficit Thursday.
$2,000,000,000,000: How much federal debt limit could go up
The Treasury has told lawmakers a roughly $2 trillion rise in the legal
limit on federal debt would be needed to ensure the government can keep
borrowing through the 2012 presidential election.