The defense team for neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, who was charged with fatally shooting an unarmed Trayvon Martin during a confrontation at a gated community in Sanford, Florida, a city near Orlando, released data from the 17-year-old's cellphone. This information ncluded texts with a friend about fighting, smoking marijuana and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school.
Attorney General Eric Holder personally signed off on the warrant, allowing the Justice Department to search Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal email. The warrant Holder approved named Rosen as a "co-conspirator" in a leak investigation, warning that the Justice Department was potentially criminalizing journalists from doing their job, which is news gathering.
Despite letters from singers Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and Patti Smith, a Russian court denied parole on Thursday to Pussy Riot band members Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova serving a two-year sentence, the Associated Press reported on Thursday.