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President Obama defended what he called long-standing Internet and phone monitoring programs as valuable tools to fight terrorism, saying that congressional lawmakers have been repeatedly briefed on the program and that federal judges oversee the program “throughout.”“Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” Obama said. “That’s not what this program is about. As was indicated, what the intell...    

Richard Ramirez, the serial killer who terrorized Southern California in the 1980s as the "Night Stalker," has died in prison while awaiting execution.Ramirez died of natural causes at Marin General Hospital. He was 53 years old.San Quentin State Prison spokesman Lt. Sam Robinson confirmed Ramirez's death Friday.Ramirez was sent to San Quentin's death row in 1989 after he was convicted of 13 murde...    

After watching the number of Oregon workers winning a voice at work continue to decline, the Oregon AFL-CIO “decided to do something different,” said state federation President Tom Chamberlain. That something different was unions working together. Since late 2011, Oregon unions have been able to craft a number of significant victories for workers who want a voice on the job. Says Chamberlain:By working together, we have achieved something phenomenal.

While the revelation of two ultra-secret government surveillance programs on Thursday raised outrage from some congressional lawmakers and admonitions for calm from others, Americans whose phone records are ostensibly being compiled by the National Security Agency were left mostly in the dark about who is gathering what information on them and how.Some subscribers to telecommunications provider Ve...