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Battered Jersey Shore Pins Recovery Hopes On Summer Season

12:37pm June 07, 2013

by Scott Gurian

Seven months after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore, Asbury Park is still waiting for insurance and federal aid money. In the meantime, it borrowed $10 million to repair the waterfront in time for the critical Memorial Day weekend.

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The History Behind America's Most Secretive Court

10:52am June 07, 2013

by Larry Abramson

Revelations of phone traffic surveillance by the NSA highlight the ongoing and controversial role of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It was created to address domestic spying abuses uncovered in the 1970s.

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Intelligence Community Mines Phone Records, Internet Data

6:09am June 07, 2013

Over the past two days, there have been revelations about the way the National Security Agency is gathering information for intelligence. While details of both programs are still coming out, the data collection practice appears to be legal. But it could be the beginning of something new in the intelligence community. And that is, the use of data to find patterns analysts might have missed.

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Reports: NSA Mines Servers Of U.S. Internet Companies

6:01am June 07, 2013

News reports have revealed the National Security Agency is data-mining Internet and social media companies including Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google. According to reports, the agency is also collecting Verizon phone records of millions of U.S. citizens. For more, Renee Montagne talks to Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who co-wrote the stories for the British newspaper The Guardian.

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The NSA, Verizon And The Future of Domestic Spying

2:40pm June 06, 2013

According to a top-secret court order obtained by The Guardian, the National Security Agency has collected the phone records of millions of U.S. Verizon customers since late April. The Guardian's Spencer Ackerman explains the coming debate over the scale of domestic spying operations.

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Johana Guardado assembles a laptop on Lenovo's new personal computer production line in Whitsett, N.C.

First U.S. Assembly Plant For China's Lenovo Opens In N.C.

8:14am June 06, 2013

by Leoneda Inge

The Chinese computer maker is trying to boost its brand and U.S. market share as other high-tech firms, including Motorola, plan to manufacture here. North Carolina officials say the plant in Whitsett is a sign of manufacturing's return from overseas.

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Susan Rice To Take Over As National Security Adviser

6:50am June 06, 2013

by Scott Horsley

President Obama has selected U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to be his next National Security Adviser. She'll take over from Tom Donilon, who has played a critical role in developing the White House's relationship with China. The president is also nominating former aide Samantha Power to fill Rice's position at the U.N.

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Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on May 15 before the House Judiciary Committee.

Holder On The Hot Seat Over Leak Investigations

5:52am June 06, 2013

by Carrie Johnson

The attorney general heads to the Senate on Thursday, where lawmakers are sure to demand answers. But being in the center of the storm is nothing new for Holder. Over four years in office, he has been a lightning rod for the president's fiercest critics.

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Myrlie Evers-Williams retells the moments before her husband's 1963 assassination during a memorial ceremony at the Evers family's former home.

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Fifty Years After Medgar Evers' Killing, The Scars Remain

9:20am June 05, 2013

by Debbie Elliott

The assassination of the NAACP field secretary galvanized a growing civil rights movement, the effects of which are still being felt across the South today.

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National Security Adviser Donilon Resigns; Rice To Take Over

9:20am June 05, 2013

The White House announced Wednesday that Tom Donilon is resigning as President Obama's national security adviser. He will be replaced by Susan Rice, the current U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

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