AP Interview: Coelho says Sony hack threatens all
By JOHN HEILPRIN Brazilian author Paulo Coelho says the Sony hack threatens us all if society doesn’t enforce important values: our individual and collective freedom of expression and an unwavering…
Human rights and civil liberties
Bush officials gave CIA wide latitude
By KEN DILANIAN In July 2004, despite growing internal concerns about the CIA’s brutal interrogation methods, senior members of George W. Bush’s national security team gave the agency permission to…
Digital dilemma: How will US respond to Sony hack?
By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH The detective work blaming North Korea for the Sony hacker break-in appears so far to be largely circumstantial, The Associated Press has learned. The…
N Korea-linked Sony hack may be costliest ever
By BERNARD CONDON, ERIC TUCKER and MAE ANDERSON The unprecedented hack of Sony Pictures which a U.S. official says is linked to North Korea may be the most damaging cyberattack…
Manhunt widens for ex-Marine in 6 killings
Schools closed and hospitals and other public places tightened security as police in two suburban Philadelphia counties hunted on Tuesday for a Marine veteran suspected of killing his ex-wife and…
France’s president wants to legalize terminal sedation
France’s president wants to allow doctors to keep terminally ill patients sedated until death comes, amid a national debate about whether to legalize euthanasia. Francois Hollande stopped short of recommending…
Chinese Nobel laureate sends message from jail
By DIDI TANG Imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has told an overseas friend that he is relatively healthy and wants the world to pay more attention to…
CIA battles Senate Democrats over torture report
By BRADLEY KLAPPER The CIA and several of its past leaders are stepping up a campaign to discredit a five-year Senate investigation into the CIA’s harrowing interrogation practices after 9/11,…