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By Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — President Obama differed sharply with Russia's leader over the Syrian civil war in an icy encounter...
By David Willman, Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — A decade ago, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge oversaw the start of BioWatch, the nationwide system designed to...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has devoted decades to giving meaning to the Constitution's promise of equality for all before the law.
By Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Mathematician William Binney worked for the National Security Agency for four decades, and in the late 1990s he helped...
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs...
By Michael Mello, Los Angeles Times
People in Newtown, Conn., and around the country paused Friday to remember the tragic shooting rampage that took place at an elementary...
By Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
When federal officials recently confirmed the existence of a massive National Security Agency program that has been collecting Americans'...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — In the first and only vote Thursday on the immigration bill, senators turned back a Republican measure that would have...
By Ken Dilanian, Richard A. Serrano and Michael A. Memoli, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden used a computer thumb drive, a portable data storage...
By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
WHITMORE VILLAGE, Hawaii — Sure, Edward Snowden just used a simple thumb drive to smuggle classified information out of the National...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Enthusiasm in the Senate for the debate over immigration gave way to reality Wednesday as party leaders quarreled to a...
By Paul West, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Desperate to avoid another Massachusetts special-election debacle, Democrats are pulling out all the stops for Rep....
By Michael A. Memoli, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Although the drive for tougher gun controls has faded into the background, families of victims in the Newtown school...
By David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times
Raleigh, N.C. — The Rev. Deborah Cayer arrived at the state Legislature building here Monday night wearing a protest button and toting...
By Shashank Bengali, Michael A. Memoli and Jessica Guynn, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The massive leaks about U.S. spying systems caused sharp political and legal aftershocks Tuesday as the Justice...
By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times
WAIPAHU, Hawaii — They don't make power couples like this very often: He is a self-proclaimed whistle-blower, the focus of...
By Lisa Mascaro, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — With an overwhelming vote, the Senate on Tuesday launched debate on an ambitious overhaul of the nation's immigration...
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON —The acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who took over the agency in its meltdown...