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NSA chief: Snooping helped thwart 50 terrorist attacks in 20 countries (+video)

NSA Director Keith Alexander, responding to critics, tells Congress that surveillance programs disrupted plots to bomb the New York Stock Exchange and subway system.
Hoffa remains: Who told FBI to look near Detroit?

Hoffa remains: The search for Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa's remains continues Tuesday. Tony Zerilli said that Hoffa was buried beneath a concrete slab in a barn in a field in suburban Detroit in 1975. Digging on Monday turned up no sign of Hoffa.
Poisoned N.J. flight: Ranting man restrained by passengers

Poisoned N.J. flight: While on a flight from Hong Kong to Newark, N.J. on Monday, a man yelled about poisoning, Edward Snowden, national security, and international spying.
N.J. flight: Man yells he'll be poisoned. Gets tackled, bound.

N.J. flight from Hong Kong is met by FBI agents, who take away man whose rant about the CIA, international spying, and poison alarmed passengers so much they subdued him in flight. Despite the disruption, United Airlines continued the flight to Newark, N.J., international airport.
Whitey Bulger trial: Star witness tells of bungled murders

John Martorano, a close associate of James 'Whitey' Bulger, testified Monday, saying that Bulger was involved in numerous murders, including at least one that went badly wrong.
USA Update FBI hunting for Jimmy Hoffa again, 38 years after his disappearance

The FBI is again hunting for the body of former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 mysterious disappearance remains unsolved. This time: a grassy field in Oakland Township, Mich.
Hoffa remains sought in a field near Detroit (+video)

Hoffa remains: An FBI spokesman said that the agency was executing a search or Jimmy Hoffa's remains in Oakland Township, about 25 miles north of Detroit.
Dick Cheney: Edward Snowden a 'traitor' who likely spied for China (+video)

Officials and lawmakers are scrambling to explain the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program leaked by former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. Many of them weighed in on the Sunday TV news shows.
Whitey Bulger trial opens with startling statement from defense (+video)

The trial of James 'Whitey' Bulger began Wednesday, with the defense admitting Mr. Bulger was a criminal, but saying he was not guilty of two key murders and did not act as an informant.
Kentucky threats: Ky. town mourning officer's death receives threats against police

Kentucky threats: The department received a written threat last week that 'there are more to come,' a reference to the nighttime ambush slaying of Bardstown Officer Jason Ellis last month while the K-9 officer was headed home from work, said Chief Rick McCubbin.
Backchannels ACLU files suit over NSA surveillance, citing 'chilling effect'

The American Civil Liberties Union charges that secret warrants allowing the National Security Agency to collect mass data on phone usage violates the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution.
How do Americans feel about NSA surveillance? Ambivalent

When terrorists strike, intelligence agencies are faulted for failure to 'connect the dots.' If that's what the NSA is trying to do with its mass surveillance of phone records and Internet use, how do Americans feel about that?
Internet spying: what firms' denials really mean

Internet spying claims prompts carefully worded denials from Google, Facebook, and others. The companies say they're not voluntarily handing over data to the government, but leave open the possibility that the government has used their data for massive Internet spying.
'Walking Dead' actress arrested: How ricin letters became tool of revenge

Several poisonous letters sent to officials appear to have been tied to settling private feuds. On Friday, the FBI arrested a woman for sending ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, apparently to exact revenge upon her estranged husband.
Backchannels NSA's data flood, through the PRISM of US interests and freedom (+video)

Do revelations about the US government snooping on citizens' telephone and Internet records make it harder for the government to advocate for Internet freedom around the world?
Decoder Wire Secret Verizon records collection: What is NSA looking for? (+video)

It's possible that the National Security Agency's collection of Verizon records is related to a cybersecurity probe. Or, it could be related to the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.
NSA collects Verizon phone records under secret court order

At the FBI's request, a judge signed a court order requiring Verizon to release some telephone records. It is unclear what the National Security Agency and the FBI do with this data, but past practices indicate it may be mined for information about terrorism networks.
FBI raid on California lawmaker's and Latino caucus offices

FBI raid in Sacramento: The FBI searched the offices of California state senator Ron Calderon, a Democrat. FBI agents also searched the the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus. No reason was given.
Marine kidnapped: Land dispute to blame?

Marine kidnapped: U.S. Marine reservist Armando Torres III, a veteran of the Iraq War, was taken with his father and uncle from a ranch near the US-Mexico border
NY college explosion blamed on natural gas leak

An explosion at a college building in New York Tuesday is being blamed on leaking natural gas. The presumed natural gas explosion blew out windows, sent a door sailing through the air and injured seven people, but authorities said none of the injuries were life-threatening.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler's outstanding new novel lands with the force of a haymaker.
Jury selection begins in Whitey Bulger trial: Who can be picked? (+video)

Some 225 people took part in the jury selection process Tuesday morning, with more pools to follow. There will be 12 jurors and six alternates for the Whitey Bulger trial.
Focus Bulger trial and the FBI: How have rules about informants changed?

James 'Whitey' Bulger is not the only one facing scrutiny as his trial begins Tuesday. So is the FBI, which infamously used Bulger as an informant for years. Today the FBI relies more heavily than ever on confidential informants, but under new rules.
Focus Bulger trial marks close of an era. But what new organized crime lurks?

Reputed mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger is among the last of his kind, as old-style crime bosses give way to criminal groups that are more fluid, more likely to span international borders, and more reliant on modern technologies.
Whitey Bulger on trial: what last-minute legal maneuvers portend

James 'Whitey' Bulger, reputed Boston organized-crime boss and former FBI Most Wanted fugitive, appeared in federal court Monday. Some of the trial's likely narratives were evident in pretrial motions.