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CHICAGO – The 2016 presidential campaign takes center stage here Thursday with two of the top contenders -- Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie -- sharing co-billing at the high-profile Clinton Global Initiative “America Meeting.”No two figures will stand apart more from the business luminaries, government officials and nonprofit leaders gathered in Chicago than the Republican governor of New Jerse...
By Rehema Ellis, Education Correspondent, NBC NewsANNAPOLIS, Md. -- When Principal Donald Lilley was hired nine years ago to improve Annapolis High School, he discovered what appeared to be two schools under one roof.“My African-American ninth grade males … I’d say 73 percent, had less than a 2.0 grade point average,” he said.The white students, however, were taking Advanced Placement classes and ...
Tornado watches and warnings stretched over the Midwest on Wednesday night as a massive storm system menaced the biggest cities in the region, pushing tornadoes, extraordinary winds and heavy rain — and perhaps even a derecho, an explosive wind pattern that's like a hurricane on land.A tornado was spotted about 7 p.m. (8 p.m. ET) near Savanna in Carroll County in northwest Illinois. A county sheri...
In a rare public ruling by the nation’s most secretive judicial body, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Wednesday that it did not object to the release of a classified 86-page opinion concluding that some of the U.S. government’s surveillance activities were unconstitutional.The ruling, signed by the court’s chief judge, Reggie Walton, rejected the Justice Department’s arguments th...
An Arkansas man with a toy gun got into a real shootout Wednesday with police outside of a Wal-Mart — and cops later found his van held a veritable menagerie of various birds.The bizarre unfolding of events began shortly before 8:00 am, when police in Springdale, Ark., received a call reporting a suspicious vehicle.The caller stated that her uncle, identified as Rainbow Kilo Rasphoumy, 40 of Hunts...
PHOENIX — A top Arizona prosecutor said on Wednesday that the state still plans to seek the death penalty for convicted murderer Jodi Arias for killing her ex-boyfriend, after a jury deadlocked last month on whether she should be executed.Arias, a former waitress from California, was found guilty last month of killing Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix...
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey on Wednesday unveiled criminal charges against eight people accused of trying to steal at least $15 million from U.S. customers in an international cybercrime scheme targeting accounts at 15 financial institutions and government agencies. U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said the conspiring hackers gained unauthorized access to computer networks, diverted customer funds...
The dilemma confronting lawyers trying to pick a jury in the George Zimmerman trial was summed up neatly by a member of the pool on the second day of the selection process.“Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year, it’s been pretty hard for people not to have gotten a lot of information,” the woman said after being quizzed on what she knew about Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin and their ...
The expansive government surveillance programs made public last week have helped prevent "dozens" of terrorist attacks, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a Senate committee Wednesday.It is unclear, however, what specific surveillance practices helped thwart the alleged plots.And Alexander, an Army general, was quick to clarify that in most cases multiple programs have successf...
Long before he became known worldwide as the NSA contractor who exposed top-secret U.S. government surveillance programs, Edward Snowden worked for a Japanese anime company run by friends and went by the nicknames "The True HOOHA" and "Phish." In 2002, he was 18 years old, a high-school dropout and his parents had just divorced. On the tiny anime company's website, he wrote of his skills with vid...
