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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie casts himself as a straight-talking everyman, but as scandal swirls around his administration, the number of state voters who see him as trustworthy has fallen dramatically, a poll said on Tuesday.

    A court in California has prohibited the destruction of phone records collected by the government until further orders, raising a potential conflict with an order last week by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington, D.C.Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Monday the retention of the call details in two lawsuits that have challenged the U.S. National Security Agency’s program for the collection of telephone metadata.A number of lawsuits challenging the NSA program have been filed by privacy and other groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. The NSA’s former contractor, Edward Snowden, disclosed in June last year that the government was collecting phone records in bulk of U.S. customers of Verizon. The government subsequently confirmed the existence of the controversial surveillance program.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    MOSCOW (AP) -- A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian crew returning after spending nearly six months on the International Space Station landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan....

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The search area for a missing jetliner has expanded with Malaysian Airlines saying the western coast of the country is now the focus of the hunt....

    How I Met Your Mother finally revealed Lily's big secret, Cat finally chose between the two men in her life in Beauty and the Beast's spring finale and Teen Wolf took a gamble on a fan...

    And the most controversial season of The Bachelor has come to a close. On Monday night, Juan Pablo Galavis' polarizing run as the star of the ABC reality hit ended in quite the...

    Sometimes there are no words to explain a certain situation, so Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez have turned to interpretive dance. The pop singer shared two Instagram videos of him and...

    Start preparing your opening statements, prospective suitors! In one of reality TV's worst kept secrets, Andi Dorfman has officially been announced as the next star of The...

    The director of Gravity + the mastermind behind Lost, Star Trek, Fringe and, now, Star Wars = must-see TV? That's what we're asking you now that you've finally seen Alfonso...

    SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has developed sophisticated countermeasures to circumvent U.N. sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate the illegal trade in weapons, according to a United Nations report.

    KUALA LUMPUR/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The so-far fruitless search for a missing Malaysian airliner entered its fourth day on Tuesday, as sources in Europe, the United States and Asia voiced growing scepticism that the flight lost with 239 people on board was the target of an attack.

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie casts himself as a straight-talking everyman, but as scandal swirls around his administration, the number of state voters who see him as trustworthy has fallen dramatically, a poll said on Tuesday.

    3,000 Americans around the world renounced their citizenship last year. Meet five U.S. citizens who have given up their passports -- or are thinking about it -- to escape an overly complicated tax code.

    TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya on Monday stopped a North Korean-flagged tanker that had loaded oil from a rebel-held port, after naval forces briefly exchanged fire with the rebels, officials said.

    It's not just grandma with a new hip and your uncle with a new knee. More than 2 of every 100 Americans now have an artificial joint, doctors are reporting....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sidney Crosby was everywhere Monday night, from start to finish....

    Uninsured Americans face an important deadline at the end of this month, and many don't realize it....

    JERUSALEM (AP) -- Activists say a group of some 50 Israeli youths have sent Israel's prime minister a petition refusing to enlist for compulsory military service to protest Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories, the largest such group of objectors since 2001....

    California would become the first state to require warning labels on sodas and other sugary drinks under a proposal in the state Legislature.

    BEIJING (AP) — China is likely to ease controls on interest rates paid on bank savings within two years and will allow wider use of its tightly controlled currency for trade and investment, th…

    Spring is finally starting to show its face in Southern Illinois.

    CARTERVILLE – One Southern Illinois community college was among three in the state to see an increase in spring enrollment at a time when headcounts are at their lowest in more than a decade, …

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    A new paper by York University physics and astronomy professor Marshall McCall, published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, maps out bright galaxies within 35-million light-years of the Earth, offering up an expanded picture of what lies beyond our doorstep.

    Genetics may explain why some senior athletes are high functioning despite having one or both hip abnormalities typically associated with early onset osteoarthritis.

    In the study, 'Total Hip Arthroplasty Proves Safe for Nonagenarian Patients,' presented today at the at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, researchers concluded that nonagenarian patients can safely undergo a total hip replacement, despite advanced age and a higher prevalence of comorbidities.

    In the new study, 'Rate of Return to Pitching and Performance after Tommy John Surgery in Major League Baseball Pitchers,' presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, researchers found a high rate of pitchers returning to Major League Baseball play following Tommy John surgery, with a significant improvement in pitching performance.

    New research presented today at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons found no greater injury risk for athletes playing on artificial playing surfaces.

    After more than 5,000 miles of driving and 12 exciting college basketball games in 12 days, the FOX Sports College Basketball Road Trip crossed its finish line Monday night. The final stop of the tour was Asheville, N.C.'€™s U.S. Cellular Center for the Southern Conference Championship, a game between the Catamounts of Western Carolina and those pesky Terriers of Wofford College.

    Jacksonville looks to lure fans back to EverBank Stadium with record-setting TV screens.

    The Black Keys follow up last year's sponsorship of little league baseball team by going to bat for the entire league with a slick new jersey for sale on their website.

    Back problems that sidelined Joel Embiid for KU's final two regular-season games will leave the talented freshman out of the Big 12 tournament as well, and likely the opening weekend of the NCAA tourney. Welcome to Bill Self's worst nightmare.

    Jim Ross says that if you think wrestlers would put up with any Richie Incognito-like hijinks, you're wrong. He chats with Stone Cold and Taz, who dish on 'other means of correcting the problem.'

    Samsung Electronics does not expect delays in the production of its upcoming Galaxy S5 smartphone, after a fire broke out at a supplier’s factory in South Korea on Sunday.The electronics giant said Tuesday it is working to stabilize operations at the supplier DAP Corporation. “In the meantime, we do not expect any production delays of the Galaxy S5, as we rely on multiple contractors,” the company said in an email.It’s unclear what the factory produces, but DAP is known as printed circuit boards producer.Pictures of the fire were posted online, showing plumes of black smoke billowing from the facility’s windows. Firefighters later extinguished the flames on the same day, and local reports added that there were no injuries.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    A court in California has prohibited the destruction of phone records collected by the government until further orders, raising a potential conflict with an order last week by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in Washington, D.C.Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Monday the retention of the call details in two lawsuits that have challenged the U.S. National Security Agency’s program for the collection of telephone metadata.A number of lawsuits challenging the NSA program have been filed by privacy and other groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. The NSA’s former contractor, Edward Snowden, disclosed in June last year that the government was collecting phone records in bulk of U.S. customers of Verizon. The government subsequently confirmed the existence of the controversial surveillance program.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    As a company that draws more than 2 billion eyeballs per month, Facebook was a fitting harbinger of trends to come at an optical networking conference.The social networking goliath is lighting up its own optical fiber, deploying 100Gbps links in its data centers and looking towards emerging silicon photonics technology, Facebook Director of Technical Operations Najam Ahmad said on Monday at an Optical Society of America meeting held alongside the annual OFC (Optical Fiber Communications) Conference in San Francisco.Facebook’s challenges mirror those of other enterprises and data center operators, with fast-growing data traffic and rapidly evolving network needs, but with 1.2 billion active monthly users, it’s facing those issues sooner than some. Though his company is unique in some ways, Ahmad’s comments in an on-stage interview may shed some light on the future of connectivity.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    Intel could soon bring to market a faster version of its Thunderbolt connector technology with a throughput of 50Gbps, but the company is biding its time until there is a need for faster connectors.Thunderbolt technology connects computers to peripherals like external hard drives at much faster speeds than USB 3.0. Thunderbolt ports are found in Macs and select Windows PCs, but are more expensive than USB technology, which is found in most PCs that ship today.The latest iteration, Thunderbolt 2, transfers data at 20Gbps (bits per second). Intel is researching how to speed up Thunderbolt, but the company could potentially develop and deploy a faster connector for PCs based on silicon photonics technology, which combines silicon components with optical networking, said Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and general manager of silicon photonics operations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    After more than a decade of research, Intel’s new connector that uses light as a speedy way to shuffle data between computers is finally ready to replace slower copper cables.The MXC optical cables will be first implemented at the rack level and use light and lasers to move data between servers, storage, networking and other computing resources. The cables will transfer data at speeds of up to 1.6Tbps (bits per second), outpacing the throughput on copper cables used for networking in data centers.The cables are based on Intel’s silicon photonics technology, which combines optical networking with silicon components. Component company U.S. Conec is now shipping MXC parts, paving the way for distributors to sell cables to server makers and data center companies. Corning, Tyco Electronics and Molex will sell MXC cables.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

    Prosecutors at a New York terrorism trial will continue to question a British man who says he was supposed to use a shoe bomb in late 2001 to blow up a plane in a second wave of terrorism aimed at America.

    BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) — Law enforcement, government agencies and others are itching to use drones for everything from finding lost hikers to tracking shifting wildfires. But privacy watchdogs are urging state legislatures to step in and head off any potential privacy violations.

    NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors at a New York terrorism trial will continue to question a British man who says he was supposed to use a shoe bomb in late 2001 to blow up a plane in a second wave of terrorism aimed at America.

    TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for two key figures in a political payback plot ensnaring New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration will be in court to try to convince a judge not to force them to turn over text messages and other private communications to state legislators investigating the matter.

    By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Dozens of detainees on the fourth day of a hunger strike protesting U.S. deportations and detention center conditions at a Washington state immigration facility were being medically evaluated on Monday and could be force-fed, a federal agency said. As of lunchtime on Monday, some 130 detainees of a total of roughly 1,300 were continuing to refuse to eat, but some of them may be eating food purchased from the commissary at the privately run Northwest Detention Center, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement. Under President Barack Obama, deportations from the United States have hit record highs, according to government data. The hunger strike, inspired in part by similar protests begun last month outside an ICE office in Phoenix, comes at a time of a protracted and tense national debate on immigration reform.

    A Soyuz capsule carrying a U.S.-Russian crew returning after spending nearly six months on the International Space Station landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan.

    Authorities hunting for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded their search on land and sea Tuesday, reflecting the difficulties in finding traces of the Boeing 777 more than three days after it vanished with 239 people on board.

    The search area for a missing jetliner expanded on Tuesday with Malaysian Airlines saying the western coast of the country is now the focus of the hunt, as China deployed 10 satellites to help in the massive multinational effort to find the Boeing 777.

    South Korea and Canada have reached a free trade agreement meant to boost exports and investment.

    A squad of motorcycle-mounted police wheels into an intersection newly seized from student protesters in a barrage of tear gas in eastern Caracas' wealthy Chacao district, an important center of resistance to Venezuela's socialist-led government.