President Barack Obama defended the ability of the federal government to carry out some intelligence-gathering operations in secret in a wide-ranging interview with PBS' Charlie Rose that aired Monday.  Obama suggested that Americans have to accep...

Tens of thousands of protestors are clashing with police across Brazil, with demonstrations spreading to Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, and other major cities, BBC reports. The demonstrations are getting much worse for the Brazilian government, w...

After nearly two weeks of leaks from an NSA whistleblower, President Obama will defend a controversial spying program Monday night in a television interview with Charlie Rose. "The way I view it, my job is both to protect the American people ...

Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) has blocked millions of dollars in governmental funds for Afghanistan until the Obama administration answers his questions about a secret CIA program to provide cash to people within the Afghan government, including Afghan presid...

Article 12 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence." It's that last one that's gotten everyone's attention lately. Just how pri...

Late last year John Nelson — a UX & Mapping manager at IDV Solutions — published a series of maps that looked at a new way to articulate weather data.  With wildfires raging throughout Colorado and a nasty string of wild weather ev...

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fla.) office sparked a bit of a firestorm on Sunday when a quote attributed to one of his aides claimed that immigration reform is necessary because some American workers "just can't cut it." The aide made the comment to&nbsp...