Bernard Sanders

WASHINGTON The director of the National Security Agency testified Tuesday that the government's massive surveillance program helped thwart more than 50 terrorist "events" worldwide since Sept. 11, 2001, including a planned bombing of the New York Stock...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's administration on Thursday defended a newly disclosed National Security Agency program that gathers telephone records of tens of millions of Verizon customers, authorized under a secret court order. In an unusual move,...

* Data on millions of Verizon customers targeted * Secret three-month court order published online * Privacy advocates say surveillance is overreach * Key U.S. lawmakers support data collection effort By Mark Hosenball and John Whitesides WASHINGTON,...

WASHINGTON - Working on a new farm bill, the Senate recently defeated an amendment to change the sugar program but limited the crop insurance premium subsidies for high-income farmers before putting off further action on the bill until after a Memorial...

* Media reports prompt controversy * Left and right upset, but not center * Obama unapologetic, invites debate By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - The strongest criticism of President Barack Obama normally comes from the U.S. Congress,...

More than a thousand South Florida seniors are waiting for in-home services, like home-delivered meals and personal care aides, that are financed through the federal Older Americans Act. But Holocaust survivors could get priority when slots become open in...

* Data on millions of Verizon customers targeted * Secret three-month court order published online * Privacy advocates say surveillance is overreach * Key U.S. lawmakers support the data collection effort By Mark Hosenball and John Whitesides...

WASHINGTON — With a wide grin and a quick step, letter carrier Kenny Clark brings more than the day's mail to the people on his route in suburban Maryland. Clark, 49, greets nearly everyone he sees by name. He puts packages under eaves on overcast...

The House of Representatives passed a controversial cybersecurity bill as expected on Thursday, moving toward a possible confrontation with the Senate and White House. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013, or CISPA, passed by a vote...

At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...

President Barack Obama didn't release his proposed budget for 2014 until Wednesday, but liberals and the AARP have been howling all week about something they expected to be in it. What has our president done to provoke such outrage among his supporters?...