Jury selection entered a second day on Tuesday in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial in Sanford Florida. Zimmerman was charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, as was walking back to the home of his father's fiancee from a convenience store on February 26, 2012.
Former Albuquerque police officer Levi Chavez committed what is being described as the "perfect murder" when he shot his wife in 2007 with his department-issued handgun, making it appear as a suicide, prosecutors said Monday.
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.
