A report on Businessweek said the National Rifle Association and its allies are pulling all the stops to ensure that Dr Vivek Murthy's nomination as the Surgeon General for the United States will not push through.
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement on Thursday that it has ordered a probe on the Senate Intelligence Committee's computers so that its findings will reject claims by the Central Intelligence Agency that the committee's inexperienced staff somehow had technical know-how to infiltrate the federal agency's systems to retrieve documents.
According to an unidentified source of the Financial Times, there was no exchange of cash between Viacom and Google regarding their settlement over YouTube's copyright infringement.
On Tuesday, New Jersey teenager Rachel Canning had filed papers in the New Jersey family court for a dismissal of the wrongful emancipation lawsuit she filed against her parents, Reuters said.
