Surveillance prevented at least 10 U.S. terror attacks NSA says

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith Alexander, defended the controversial surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden and revealed details of two previously unreported cases he said were cracked with the help of the programs. NBC's Andrea Mitchell ...

Why the LGBT struggle is like the civil rights struggle

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

In the latest installment of Reply Al, Sharpton explains why people shouldn't worry about the difference between the civil rights movement and LGBT equality ...

Transcripts expose Issa’s witch-hunt

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Ranking member on the House Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings hopes to debunk the conspiracy theories that the White House was behind the IRS targeting scandal as he releases the transcripts of an IRS employee interview against Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's ...

Obama to speak at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Five decades after John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama will address U.S.-Germany relations in the same historic location. The President recently wrapped up a trip to Northern Ireland where he attended the G-8 summit. NBC's Brian Williams ...

House passes ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

By Carrie Dann, Political Reporter, NBC News The Republican-controlled House passed legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, offering social conservatives a symbolic victory even as the bill is all but certain not to become law.The vote was 228-196, with six Democrats and all but six Republicans voting for the measure.But the legislation, sponsored by Rep. Trent ...

House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill

Yahoo News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

View Photo Associated Press/Carolyn Kaster - Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at House Judiciary Committee hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify ...

Sideshow Obama ‘birthers’ still exist

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Jimmy Fallon found a way to connect Miss Utah's wacky answer at the Miss USA pageant to President Obama's approval ratings; South Carolina Republican Jeff Duncan tells radio host he still questions the president's "validity," proving that the birther movement is still alive and well in America; and a Congressman introduces his colleague from American Samoa, with a ...

Steele on GOP abortion bill ‘This is a crazy conversation to have right now’

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

It doesn't seem like the GOP has learned much from their women problem in 2012. Joan Walsh from Salon and former RNC Chair Michael Steele join Chris Matthews to discuss why the party continues to bring up the abortion issue, especially when this continual revisiting of this legislation isn't getting the party ...

Transcript release sheds new light on IRS scandal

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

After Darrell Issa, R-Calif., only released select pieces of documentation from IRS committee interviews, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., took matters into his own hands by releasing over 200 pages of transcripts. Chris Matthews discusses the details with the Maryland ...

‘The Good Wife’s’ Chris Noth talks unscripted politics

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

political opponent if need be. and cannot look at it as unethical and still, you know, go on and be a good guy in other matters. so that he doesn't -- once he does the act, he doesn't think about it, it's done and on to the ...

Could foiled terrorist attacked have been stopped without snooping

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

2009 , nsa using 7.02 authority intercepted an e-mail from a terrorist locked in pakistan. that will individual was talking with the individual located inside ...

Boehner No House immigration without GOP majority

MSNBC - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., joins Martin Bashir to discuss whether any meaningful immigration reform bill can pass the House if, as Speaker Boehner demands, it must represent the will of a majority of House ...

New York regulators fine Deloitte $10m over StanChart

The Independent - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Nikhil Kumar is The Independent's New York correspondent. He was formerly assistant editor on the foreign desk and has also done a variety of jobs on the city desk, where he wrote about markets, commodities and other business and economics ...

Officials investigating death of Puerto Rico bank executive

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SAN JUAN (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating allegations that high-ranking bank officials in Puerto Rico conspired to have a former Doral Bank executive killed after he claimed he uncovered fraud, the U.S. attorney for the district of Puerto Rico said on ...

Did senior State Department security officials commit perjury

Fox News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Two top officials at the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service (DS) -- the federal law enforcement agency that protects American diplomats and investigates allegations of criminal misconduct by State Department employees -- gave sworn testimony earlier this year that appears to be evasive at best, and untrue at worst, according to evidence obtained by Fox News. The officials are ...

CAPTIVE IN KUWAITContract Dispute Leaves 100 Americans Stranded

Fox News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

More than 100 American citizens have been trapped on two U.S. Army bases in Kuwait for months because of a contract dispute. (Wikipedia/public ...

Trial of accused Fort Hood gunman moved to at least August

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (L) appears before the Fort Hood Chief Circuit Judge Colonel Gregory Gross with a military lawyer (R) during an arraignment as seen in this courtroom sketch, July 20, ...

Jury selection moves to second phase in Trayvon Martin murder case

Reuters - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

1 of 3. George Zimmerman stands as the judge leaves the courtroom as jury selection continues in his second-degree murder trial in Sanford, Florida, June 18, ...

Cancellation of Arab American Film Festival a Troubling Sign

The Progessive - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

This is where we are today, as a country and a society. You can't even hold an Arab American film festival in Dearborn, Michigan, a center of the Arab American community in this country. The festival was supposed to run this month, but last month the Arab American Chamber of Commerce pulled the plug on it. What a shame! Young filmmakers from across the US and the world would have come ...

Watch Bronx Principal Accused of Making Bomb Threats

ABC News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Shocking claims from teachers at a school in the blocks and they say their principal. Threatened to blow to school with them inside homework and Bronx intermediate school 232 -- -- tight eye ...

Burger Joint Robber Shot Dead By Deputies In Castro Valley Was Wanted Parolee

CBS 5 - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

fatally shot in a confrontation with two Alameda County sheriff's deputies at a restaurant in Castro Valley on Friday night was a parolee at large from Oakland, authorities said Tuesday. Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson identified the suspect as 32-year-old Quincy Williams and said he had three felony convictions for robbery, drugs and theft. Williams also had ...

Aetna To Stop Selling Individual Health Insurance Plans In Calif.

CBS 5 - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — Aetna Inc. will stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, just weeks after opting out of the exchange that is being established as part of the national health care reforms, a state regulator said Tuesday. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said he was disappointed in Aetna’s decision because consumers need more ...