The doubts raised by the NSA spying could cost US tech companies as much as $35 billion over the next three years. Technology companies in the United States have criticized President Barack Obama for his failure to do enough to protect citizens’ privacy amid months-long reports on government’s spying scandals. The companies say the president’s speech on US surveillance is a step in right direction... 

European officials say limited pledges made by US President Barack Obama to change Washington’s espionage practices did not go far enough to address their concerns. “It is not sufficient at all,” Jan-Philipp Albrecht, a German Member of the European Parliament (MEP), said on Friday. “The collection of foreigners’ data will go on. There is almost nothing here for the Europeans.... 

The NSA’s warrantless collection of telephone metadata of Americans may come to an end with US President Barack Obama set to announce a ban on the practice, AP reports citing a government official. A senior White House administration official told the agency that Obama will on Friday call for an end to the National Security Agency’s collection of phone data from millions of US citizens “in a... 

US President Barack Obama speaks with military personnel while viewing an Iron Dome missile battery on March 20 at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport. The Pentagon, defense industry and Israel came out as big winners in a bipartisan $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would pay for government operations through October, a report says. The massive measure, unveiled Monday night, fleshes... 

Hundreds have reported sickness, businesses have closed and bottled-water supply is low after a chemical spill into the Elk River in West Virginia that has affected 300,000 people in nine counties. The White House declared the incident a federal disaster. Residents of the nine affected counties have been told to avoid using tap water for drinking, cooking, washing or bathing. Health officials recommend... 

The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries. Anti-American sentiment was not only recorded in antagonistic countries, but also in many allied NATO partners like Turkey and Greece. A global survey conducted by the Worldwide Independent Network and Gallup at the end of 2013 revealed strong animosity towards the US’s role as the world’s... 

Obama’s Director for National Intelligence, James Clapper, has declassified new documents that reveal how the NSA was first given the green light to start collecting bulk communication data in the hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorists after 9/11. President Barack Obama’s administration has for the first time publicly confirmed “the existence of collection activities authorized by President George... 

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says President Barack Obama’s plans for the US nuclear weapons complex will cost the country about $355 billion over the next decade. In a report on Friday, the CBO said the plans included the modernization of nuclear weapons, their delivery systems, and nuclear weapons production laboratories. According to the report, the cost is nearly $150 billion more than... 

The Ugandan parliament has ratified a bill that will see homosexuals imprisoned for life, if the person is caught in the act more than once, according to activists and reports on Friday. One gay activist speaking to AFP following the vote said that now he is “officially illegal.” This is the toughest measure to have been accepted in the country yet, although there was an even more severe version... 

Long form document stoked suspicions of forgery. The health director who approved the release of President Obama’s long form birth certificate, which some claim was a fraudulent document, has died in an unexplained plane crash in Hawaii, it was announced today. Everyone else onboard survived the plane crash, except for her. Was Loretta Fuddy’s plane crash just a tragic accident, or did she have... 

The National Security Agency has publicly admitted to tracking the locations of literally billions of international cell phones under a 1981 executive order. To allay the fears of US citizens, it said the program only targets international phones. Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden first leaked the information that such a practice happens up to 5 billion times each day, and functions by scooping... 

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans think that the United States should “mind its own business internationally.” Fifty-two percent of US citizens believe that their country should “mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as they best can,” according to a new Pew Research poll released on Tuesday. This is the highest rating ever recorded by the Pew... 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Barack Obama As Iran and the six world powers resume the next round of nuclear talks in Geneva on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama pleads with American senators to ignore the aggressive lobbying campaign by Israel and hold off on new sanctions against Tehran. During a two-hour White House meeting on Tuesday, Obama called on senators... 

Facing public outrage over his signature ‘Affordable care act’, US President Barack Obama announced major changes in the healthcare plan that will allow millions of Americans who were about to lose their cover to keep it for one more year. The disastrous launch of Obamacare forced the president to change his stance on the “Affordable care act.” Only slightly more than 106 thousand... 

US President Barrack Obama has told his top aides during the 2012 presidential campaign that he is “really good at killing people”, according to a new book. The book titled “Double Down: Game Change 2012,” is written by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. According to the book, the US president made the remarks while discussing country’s controversial assassination drone...