AOL Plus Yahoo To Equal New ‘Oath’
AOL and Yahoo will be combined into a unit called "Oath" after telecom titan Verizon buys the pioneering internet firm, according to a tweet Monday by the AOL chief. Confirmation of a new name for...
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US Teen Pleads Guilty To 2015 Islamic State Plot To Kill Pope
A New Jersey teen pleaded guilty Monday to an allegedly Islamic State-inspired plot to kill Pope Francis during his US visit in 2015. The US Justice Department said Santos Colon, 17, sought to...
Extradited Russian Pleads Guilty In US Botnet Fraud Case
A Russian man pleaded guilty in a US federal court on Tuesday to charges he participated in a global computer fraud conspiracy that generated millions in illicit profit, US authorities announced....
US Deal With DirecTV Settles California Baseball Case
The US Justice Department on Thursday announced a deal with DirecTV to settle charges that it shared information with competitors negotiating to broadcast games played by a California baseball team....
China’s ZTE Pleads Guilty To Violating US Sanctions On Iran, N.Korea
Chinese telecom giant ZTE has pleaded guilty in a US court to violating US export controls by selling goods to Iran and North Korea over several years. The move is the final step in the case's...
US To Charge Malaysia Businessman In 1MDB Scandal
US authorities plan to lodge criminal charges against a businessman suspected to be at the centre of a corruption scandal that has embroiled Malaysia's prime minister, the Wall Street Journal...
US Man Held For Sending Flashing Tweet To Epileptic Writer
A man accused of sending a flashing image to a writer in order to trigger an epileptic seizure has been arrested, the US justice department says. John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Maryland, sent Kurt...
Man Who ‘sent Flashing Tweet To Epileptic Writer’ Arrested In Maryland
A man accused of sending a flashing image to a writer in order to trigger an epileptic seizure has been arrested, the US justice department says. John Rayne Rivello, 29, of Maryland, sent Kurt...
Russia Runs Up Cyber Score Against US With Yahoo, Election Hacks
US charges that Russia's FSB security service was behind the hacking of Yahoo underscored a worrisome run of successes in Moscow's cyber-efforts against its longtime rival. Coming after Russian...
US Charges Two Russian Spies, ‘criminal Hackers’ In Yahoo Attack
Two agents of Russia's FSB spy agency and two "criminal hackers" were indicted Wednesday over a massive cyberattack affecting 500 million Yahoo users, the US Justice Department announced. The...
New Michael Brown Video Raises Questions
New surveillance footage has emerged of the black teenager Michael Brown suggesting he had not in fact robbed a Ferguson, Missouri convenience store hours before he was shot by a white police...
New Trump Travel Ban Faces First Court Challenge
President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on refugees and nationals from six mainly Muslim countries faced a new round of legal challenges Thursday, with Hawaii leading off with a suit calling it...
FBI Chief Comey ‘rejects’ Allegation
FBI director James Comey has rejected Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama, ordered a wiretap of his phone before he was elected US president, US media say. Mr Comey reportedly...
FBI Chief Comey ‘rejects’ Phone Tap Allegation
FBI director James Comey has rejected President Donald Trump's claim on Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, tapped his phone, US media say. Mr Comey reportedly asked the US justice...
Lance Armstrong Fraud Trial Set For November
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's battle against a $100 million lawsuit brought by the US government over whether he committed fraud by doping has been set to go to trial on November 6. US District...
Lance Armstrong To Head To Court In US Suit
A judge on Monday cleared the way for the doping-disgraced cycling icon Lance Armstrong to go to court, saying the US authorities' allegations against him merited trial. The US Justice Department is...
Peru Asks Trump To Consider Deporting Ex-President Alejandro Toledo
Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has urged his US counterpart Donald Trump to consider deporting fugitive former Peruvian leader Alejandro Toledo. Mr Toledo, who is believed to be in San...
Trump Vows To Win Travel Ban Court Fight
President Donald Trump has said he has "no doubt" his administration will win legal challenges to his travel ban. But he told reporters on Air Force One he is considering a "brand new order" as his...
Peru Ex-Leader Faces Arrest Over $20m Bribe Allegations
A Peruvian court has issued an international warrant for the arrest of ex-President Alejandro Toledo on suspicions of taking bribes from a Brazilian construction giant at the heart of a region-wide...
US Justice Department Defends ‘lawful’ Trump Travel Ban
The US justice department has defended President Donald Trump’s travel ban and urged an appeals court to reinstate it in the interests of national security. A 15-page brief argued it was a...