The U.S. could hit Syria with three days of missile strikes, perhaps beginning Thursday, in an attack meant more to send a message to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad than to topple him or cripple his military, senior U.S. officials told NBC News on Tuesday. “The options that we are considering are not about regime change,” White House press […]

Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the use of chemical weapons in attacks on civilians in Syria last week was undeniable and that the Obama administration would hold the Syrian government accountable for what he called a “moral obscenity” that had shocked the world’s conscience, reports The New York Times. Setting the stage […]

The NSA bugged the UN’s New York headquarters, Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly said on Sunday in a report on U.S. spying that could further strain relations between Washington and its allies, Reuters reports. Citing secret U.S. documents obtained by fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel said the files showed how the U.S. systematically […]

Trading in all $5.65 trillion of Nasdaq-listed securities was halted for more than three hours on Thursday due to a technical glitch, representing the latest stark example of how complex equity markets have become, Fox Business News reports.  Shares of exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. dropped immediately after trading resumed. The Nasdaq Composite Index, […]

The nation’s top intelligence official declassified three secret U.S. court opinions showing how the NSA scooped up as many as 56,000 emails annually over three years and other communications by Americans with no connection to terrorism, how it revealed the error to the court and changed how it gathered Internet communications, the AP reports.  The […]