It's probably not the kind of recognition he wanted to receive, but President Barack Obama has been awarded PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" for 2013. The infamous prize, handed out annually by the fact-checking website PolitiFact, was given to Obama because of his statements claiming that Americans would be able to keep their health insurance under the Affordable Care Act if they liked th [...]
Iran has halted fraught nuclear talks with the West, saying that Washington has acted contrary to the spirit of a "landmark agreement" established last month. The US has widened its blacklists, adding further people and companies under current sanctions. [...]
Russia does not seek the role of a regional or global hegemony, but will defend its core values and interests, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. All attempts to impose on other nations have failed, he added. [...]
The City Council in Denver, Colorado voted on Monday to permit residents to smoke marijuana on private property, even if others can see them doing so from the street or sidewalk. [...]
The developers of the FreeBSD operating system say they no longer trust computer processor chips manufactured by two of the top tech companies, and cite National Security Agency secrets spilled by former contractor Edward Snowden as the reason why. [...]
The US National Security Agency has quietly subverted the tools used by online advertising companies in order to track surveillance targets and improve its monitoring ability, according to a report based on documents obtained by Edward Snowden. [...]
WikiLeaks' major achievement is in weakening the authority of US intelligence, according to the whistle blowing website founder, Julian Assange, who has just marked three years under virtual house arrest in the UK. [...]
As the world remembers Nelson Mandela's legacy as South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon, he was also deeply skeptical of American power, the Iraq invasion, and was a key supporter of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. [...]
As tensions mount over China's declaration of a new air defense zone, the United States Navy has deployed next-generation surveillance aircraft to Japan. [...]
A wheelchair-bound Canadian woman was denied entry to the United States this week because she was previously diagnosed with clinical depression. Now she wants to know why the US Department of Homeland Security had her medical history on file. [...]
The Cayman Islands has signed an agreement with the United States to combat offshore tax evasion pursuant to a controversial 2010 law that has caused some notable US expatriates to revoke their US citizenship. [...]
The fallout over the Snowden affair hits "critical stage" as Washington continues the push to separate Cyber Command, which oversees cyberspace operations, from the National Security Agency. [...]
Recent survey shows inequality in the US is at its new peak. The richest 1 percent of the population received almost a fifth of the national householdsâ income in 2012, thus breaking the previous record set in 1928. [...]
Four decades after his reporting on the Watergate scandal reshaped investigative journalism, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post told Larry King this week that heâd have handled Edward Snowdenâs NSA scoop differently than those who first covered it. Speaking to King for an episode of Politicking that aired Thursday evening on RT, Woodward said he would have preferred it if the source res [...]
The P5+1 world powers and Iran have struck a historic deal on Tehranâs nuclear program at talks in Geneva on Sunday. Ministers overcame the last remaining hurdles to reach agreement, despite strong pressure from Israel and lobby groups. [...]
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has said the US and UK must do more to protect internet usersâ privacy as the US has fallen to fourth place in a survey ranking countries in terms of their internet freedom. [...]
The National Security Agency systematically broke its own rules and collected information it wasn't supposed to, according to 1,000 pages of highly redacted classified files released for the first time by the Obama administration. [...]
The mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has demanded that Washington give Germany clarity over the future of the NSA in the country, stating that the practice had put transatlantic ties "to the test.-The allegations are grave," she said. Merkel kicked off the session by tackling the controversial issue of the US tapping her personal phone calls and the “millions” of associated NSA data int [...]
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