Snowden Leaks Spark Ongoing National Surveillance Debate
A year after Edward Snowden exposed bulk domestic phone record collection, the nation debates privacy versus security. Civil liberties groups applaud awareness while policy reforms lag, as Congress and the White House grapple with the USA Freedom Act and broader surveillance powers.
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Edward Snowden
Washington Post
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U.S
Kevin Bankston
New American Foundation
Open Technology Institute
Bankston
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Barack Obama
Congress
Justin Amash
R-Mich
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Senate
Suspect in Moncton killings sparked manhunt and social media ire
Canadian authorities identify 24 year old Justin Bourque as the gunman who killed three RCMP officers and wounded two in Moncton New Brunswick. Police say he posted anger about anti gun legislation and law enforcement on social media before the attack and authorities pursued a large area lockdown affecting about 2000 residents.
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Canada
New Brunswick
Justin Bourque
Bourque
Canadian Broadcasting Corp
CBC
Daniel Bourgeois
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Pinehill
Bourgeois
Seattle campus shooting wounds 3. one dead at Seattle Pacific University
A gunman opened fire at Seattle Pacific University, killing a man in his 20s and wounding three others before staff disarmed him. University personnel restrained the suspect, police said. Separately, Bergdahl case review questions if desertion occurred. Burwell confirmed as new health secretary after Sebelius resignation.
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Seattle
Seattle Pacific University
Washington
Senate
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Barack Obama
Burwell
U.S. Health and Human Services
Kathleen Sebelius
First Military Color Guard Joins Capital Pride Parade
In Washington an estimated 150000 spectators will see a U S Armed Forces color guard march with rainbow flags. Defense Department authorized a nationwide first a color guard presenting the U S flag and each military branch flag at Capital Pride.
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Washington
U.S. Armed Forces
Department of Defense
Fossil find reveals pterosaur colony and gender differences
Chinese researchers announce five well preserved pterosaur eggs and a large nesting site in northwestern China. The site of Hamipterus tianshanensis yields over 40 adults and indicates gregarious living near a lake with sex differences such as larger head crests in males. The discovery sheds light on flight reptiles that thrived 120 million years ago.
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China
Zhonghe Zhou
Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of
Tianshanensis
Xiaolin Wang
Wang
Zhou
Earth
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