29-year-old Edward Snowden, the former CIA computer technician, and self-proclaimed whistleblower, reportedly gave classified documents to reporters, making public two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and touching off a national firestorm over the weekend
President Obama defended the U.S. policy's long-standing Internet and phone monitoring programs as valuable tools in an effort to fight terrorism, deflecting criticism that government intrusion to people's phone calls has been too overreaching.
Nouel Alba, a 37-year-old Bronx woman who posed as an aunt of a Sandy Hook victim, pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud and to lying to FBI agents, federal prosecutors in Connecticut said, as reported by CNN. Alba reportedly solicited donations on behalf of one of the young victims, Noah Pozner, in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history
A "Today Show" suicide scare hit the news on Thursday when Pak Chong Mar, a man in his 70s, sliced his wrists with a box cutter in front of Rockefeller Plaza where tourists were lined up for the morning's filming. Police and security officers were forced to tackle the man to stop him from slashing his arms.
