Speaker of the House John Boehner seemed to throw cold water on bipartisan hopes for a law overhauling the country’s immigration system this year.
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‘Almost Otherworldly’: The Sea Caves Of Lake Superior, On Ice
This winter’s intense cold has brought a fringe benefit to people who live around southern Lake Superior: They can walk to the uniquely beautiful, and currently frozen, sea caves of the Apostle Islands.
U.S. One Step Closer To Future Where Cars Talk To Each Other
The United States is one step closer to a future where cars will communicate with each other to avoid accidents.
Canada Used Airport Wi-Fi To Track Travelers, Snowden Leak Alleges
A classified document that’s among the many secrets revealed by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden “shows that Canada’s electronic spy agency used information from the free Internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal,” CBC News reports.
Obama To Nominate Vice Adm. Michael Rogers As NSA Chief
President Obama has decided to nominate Vice. Adm. Michael Rogers, the current head of U.S. Cyber Command, as the next director of the National Security Agency, The New York Times, Reuters and CNN are reporting.
Two Days Later, Atlantans Can Retrieve Cars Abandoned In Storm
Authorities in Atlanta want to start reuniting drivers with the hundreds of vehicles that were abandoned on highways during the winter storm that blew through Tuesday.
Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
Saying Edward Snowden has “contributed to a more stable and peaceful world order” by exposing U.S. surveillance practices and forcing a new debate over security and privacy, two Norwegian politicians nominated the former intelligence contractor for the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday.
Post-9/11 Panel Criticizes NSA Phone Data Collection
An independent panel created after the 9/11 attacks says bulk collection of billions of American phone records violates the letter and the spirit of the law.
Obama Expected To Say NSA Should Not Hold ‘Metadata’
President Obama is expected to announce Friday morning that he is “ordering a transition that will significantly change the handling of what is known as the telephone ‘metadata’ ” that the National Security Agency collects, officials are telling Reuters and NPR.
NSA Reportedly Can Monitor 100,000 Computers Worldwide
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks