Latest United States News
RSS-
Experts officials China has resumed hacking U.S. companies agencies
Computer security experts and U.S. officials say Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on companies and agencies they stole data from three months ago. A unit of China's People's Liberation Army had stopped computer intrusions in February after the administration of ...
-
New York investor buys Fairborn senior living facility
Fairborn Senior Housing, located near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, sold last week for $1.9 million. A senior living facility in Fairborn now has a new owner. Fairborn Senior Housing, located at 221 North Central Ave. near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, sold last week for $1.9 million. DHorn Fairborn Senior Housing LLC, an investor in New York, bought the 84-unit independent living facility ...
-
Calif. suspects accidentally dial 911 during crime
FRESNO, Calif. -; Two suspects arrested for breaking into a car in Central California accidentally called 911 on a cellphone, which led police to ...
More United States News
RSS-
White House knew of damaging IRS audit weeks before it became public report
Dan Pfeiffer launched a vigorous defense of the administration in a round of appearances on the Sunday talk shows, reiterating that President Obama knew nothing about the misdeeds within the ...
-
Slims America Movil says to buy Start Wireless Group in U.S
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Tracfone Wireless, the U.S. unit of Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's phone company America Movil, has made a deal to acquire the assets of U.S. mobile virtual network operator Start Wireless Group, the company said on Monday.America Movil said in a statement that Start Wireless had around 1.4 million subscribers and offered pre-paid plans for voice, messaging and ...
-
Tornadoes 500K square miles under gun
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. Shawnee, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday. And the destructive weather isn't ...
-
Do the Indiana Pacers have what it takes to beat the Miami Heat
San Antonio's blowout Game One win on Sunday , the Eastern Conference Finals will start Wednesday night with the Pacers acting as huge underdogs compared to the Heat.Wait, hold up, this series isn't starting until Wednesday? This seems a tad unnecessary. Are the Eastern Conference Finals being scheduled by the same people who determine how long the hiatus in between "Breaking ...
-
Lapid tells New York Times I hope to succeed Netanyahu
"To say Yair Lapid has been on a roller coaster would be an understatement," states the lead in "The New York Times" interview with Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. It goes on to say, "One recent headline blared about his 'meteoric rise and fall,' another said he had gone from 'political darling to national whipping boy'." The newspaper says that ...
-
Records give rare look at how feds probed one reporter
In 2009, the Justice Department did more than get a working journalist’s phone records in trying to find the source of classified information leaking out about North ...
-
Court Should whistleblower protection be wider
Commuters who manage to make it from southwest Connecticut to New York City for work should consider staying in the Big Apple all week as crews begin rebuilding 2,000 feet of track following a commuter ...
-
IRS Scandal Continues to Pressure White House
U.S. lawmakers are getting ready for a second week of scrutinizing the circumstances surrounding the IRS targeting of conservative groups, reports CNBC's John ...
-
Carmageddon avoided Heavy traffic in Connecticut but no parking lot
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News Heavy traffic was reported in southwestern Connecticut on Monday morning after thousands of New York City-bound workers from the suburbs took to the roads because a train crash last week wrecked a section of commuter-rail track.But fears that roads in the area could turn into one giant "parking lot" -- with the addition of some 30,000 commuters ...
-
Raw Anchors take cover as tornado hits TV station
Watch as the television staff at NBC-affiliate KSN are forced to evacuate their set in the middle of the newscast as a tornado approaches downtown Wichita, ...
-
Clock is ticking for holder of $590 million Powerball ticket
A Publix grocery store in Zephyrhills, Fla., sold a Powerball ticket worth $590.5 million, the second-largest lottery jackpot in history, to one lucky winner. NBC's Kerry Sanders ...
-
Tornado spotted near Wichita Kan. residents told to take cover
Damaged structures after a tornado ripped through Wellston, Okla. The system, which stretched from North Texas to Minnesota, also heaved hail -- dime- to softball-sized -- as well as heavy rainfall. Near Oklahoma City, a half-mile-wide tornado was reported, prompting an an unusually blunt alert from the Weather Service: "You could be killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter," ...
-
Target opens San Francisco tech center
Target on Friday unveiled its new technology office in San Francisco that will be its West Coast hub for development of mobile and online services, the Mercury News reports. The office will give the retailer a foothold in the Bay Area, where other companies including Walmart have set up tech centers to take advantage of local talent in developing online technology. Target has hired nearly 20 ...
-
Plains All American building Oklahoma pipeline extension
Plains All American Pipeline is building an extension to its pipeline in western Oklahoma. Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline LP (NYSE: PAA) is constructing a 95-mile extension of its existing Oklahoma crude oil pipeline system to deliver increasing production from shale formations in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The pipeline will move up to 75,000 barrels each day from ...
-
San Francisco on track to host Super Bowl
San Francisco is in position to be chosen as the host city for Super Bowl L, with NFL owners set Tuesday to vote on the game's location, NFL.com reports. The game would be hosted at the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium being built in Santa Clara, where it would offer a look at the new technology that can be put into stadiums and the future of technology in the game. San Francisco got a ...
-
Supreme Court declines to hear Alaska climate change case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an Alaskan village's claim that it should be able to sue oil companies and utilities for damages attributed to climate ...
-
High court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York endorsed religion by allowing members of the public to open meetings with a ...
-
Arias jury to weigh possible death sentence in Arizona murder trial
Jodi Arias cries as she listens to Steven Alexander, brother of murder victim Travis Alexander, makes his victim impact statement to the jury during the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona May 16, ...
-
Justices agree to hear Fidelity whistleblower case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a case involving whistleblowers at Fidelity Investments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether mutual fund employees are subject to the same whistleblower protections as those who work for publicly traded ...
-
San Francisco unions protest Kaiser premium hike
San Francisco's Health Service System has teamed up with labor unions to protest Kaiser Permanente's latest rate hike, the LA Times reports. The system and the unions are demanding that Kaiser provide an alternate proposal and better explain the need for rate increases. Kaiser insures 45,000 public workers in the area. Read more at the LA ...
-
Video White House on GOP charges Weve seen this playbook before
CBS News political director John Dickerson discusses what to expect in this week's round of hearings concerning the IRS scandal and how the White House is responding to Republican ...
-
Video Obama urges Morehouse grads to be better men
Gary Pruitt, CEO and president of the Associated Press, told "Face the Nation" that Justice Department investigators have gone too far and President Obama should step in and control them. Gayle King ...
California Special Report
-
California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
News from around our Network
