• AP: NSA weighed ending phone program before Snowden leak

    AP: NSA weighed ending phone program before Snowden leak

    Mar 30, 2015 03:06 PM EST

    ... the program to continue as is. Alexander argued that the program was an essential tool because it allows the FBI and the NSA to hunt for domestic plots by searching American calling records against phone numbers associated with international terrorists. He and other NSA officials support Obama's plan to ...

  • NSA considered scrapping phone program before Snowden leaks

    NSA considered scrapping phone program before Snowden leaks

    Mar 29, 2015 07:43 PM EST

    ... the program to continue as is. Alexander argued that the program was an essential tool because it allows the FBI and the NSA to hunt for domestic plots by searching American calling records against phone numbers associated with international terrorists. He and other NSA officials support Obama's plan to ...

  • Supreme Court: Police need warrants to search mobile phones

    Supreme Court: Police need warrants to search mobile phones

    Jun 25, 2014 02:36 PM EST

    ... cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants. Cellphones are powerful devices unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest, Chief Justice John Roberts said for the court. Because mobile phones contain so much information, police must get a warrant before looking through them. "Modern cellphones ...

  • Former Justice Anthony Kennedy on political division and the state of the Supreme Court

    Former Justice Anthony Kennedy on political division and the state of the Supreme Court

    Oct 14, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... thoughtful people to give reasons for what we do and to be unafraid to discuss those reasons openly and with an open -- and with a searching mind-set. Geoff Bennett: The book is "Life, Law & Liberty: A Memoir." Justice Anthony Kennedy, thanks again for being here. A real pleasure ...

  • How Mueller could use evidence from the FBI’s raid on Michael Cohen

    How Mueller could use evidence from the FBI’s raid on Michael Cohen

    Apr 10, 2018 10:30 PM EST

    ... papers and e-mail and documents relevant to his representation of a client is among the most sensitive things a federal prosecutor can do. And for that reason, the Department of Justice has very high levels of authority for who has to approve it. It has to go through an ...

  • What Supreme Court justices signaled in arguments over Colorado's conversion therapy ban

    What Supreme Court justices signaled in arguments over Colorado's conversion therapy ban

    Oct 07, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... whether the justices will say outright that Colorado's ban violates the Constitution or whether they will send the case back to the lower courts for them to apply a more searching review. Geoff Bennett: And if they do overturn it, what's the broader impact? Amy Howe: Well, so ...

  • Free speech and national security collide as TikTok's case arrives at Supreme Court

    Free speech and national security collide as TikTok's case arrives at Supreme Court

    Jan 09, 2025 06:49 PM EST

    ... Shou Zi Chew at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, in December. He has 14.7 million followers on TikTok. The justices have set aside two hours for arguments, and the session likely will extend well beyond that. Three highly experienced Supreme Court lawyers will be ...

  • Death toll from Kentucky floods climbs to 26 amid threat of more rain

    Death toll from Kentucky floods climbs to 26 amid threat of more rain

    Jul 31, 2022 03:43 PM EST

    ... a federal disaster to direct relief money to more than a dozen Kentucky counties. Last week's flooding extended to West Virginia, where Gov. Jim Justice declared a state of emergency for six southern counties, and to Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin also made an emergency declaration that enabled officials ...

  • Three police misconduct cases -- all involving body cameras -- had new developments this week. Here's what happened

    Three police misconduct cases -- all involving body cameras -- had new developments this week. Here's what happened

    Aug 11, 2017 09:44 PM EST

    ... planted evidence, this time during a November 2016 traffic stop. The footage, authenticated by the Baltimore Sun, shows Officer Glenn Peters coming up empty while searching the driver's side of a car he had stopped late Nov. 29. But footage from 30 minutes later shows Peters searching the same ...

  • Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of the first Democratic presidential debate

    Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of the first Democratic presidential debate

    Oct 14, 2015 12:50 AM EST

    Nevada Sen. Harry Reid is giving no inkling of which Democratic presidential candidate he plans to support, calling the participants in Tuesday's debate "five of my friends."