An autopsy was scheduled on Monday in New Orleans to confirm that the body in a car that was pulled from the Bayou St. Johns on Saturday afternoon was that of Terrilyn Monette, an elementary school teacher missing for nearly 100 days
Jury selection in the Trayvon Martin murder case began on Monday, as Circuit Judge Debra Nelson quickly rejecting a request from defense lawyer Mark O'Mara to delay the trial.
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.
