Congress is regularly briefed, she says.

The House speaker accuses the president of threatening to shut down the government.

A secret court order directs Verizon to turn over call logs to the National Security Agency. The NYT reports.

Robb Montgomery talks about what's lost now that the Chicago Sun-Times, a legend in photojournalim, fired its entire photography staff.

The Fort Hood massacre was part of a trend of al Qaeda-inspired attacks on military targets, writes Peter Bergen

It comes as the national Republican party seeks to become more technologically agile.

The long-serving lawmaker cites the president's inexperience as a major weakness.

The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence committee says the top secret court order for telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon is a three-month renewal of an ongoing practice.

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California spoke to reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference on Thursday after the Obama administration defended the National Security Agency's need to collect the records.

Other lawmakers have said that the practice is legal under the Patriot Act although civil libertarians have complained about U.S. snooping on American citizens.

With increasing home prices and rising mortgage rates, it's a "great time" to sell, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff tells CNBC.

What gives? Retailers are rushing into the low-margin grocery business. A look at why they are gaga for groceries.

The parents of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who is waiting for a lung transplant asked a federal judge Wednesday to order officials to waive a rule that prevents her from getting lungs from an adult.

David Rothkopf says Obama's pick for national security adviser is a seasoned foreign policy expert who must dial back her bravado to manage the politically tricky -- and unpredictable -- new role

It clears the way for Senate passage next week.

Equipped with search cameras, microphones and motion detectors, and bathed in harsh LED lights that illuminated the darkness, rescue workers combed through piles of bricks and rubble early Thursday, listening for the faint tap-tap-tapping of life buried in the ruins of a collapsed building.

Regulators are reaching out to try to better understand how "dark pools" operate, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Some senators say the report is troubling.

Turkish stocks tumbled more than 5 percent on Thursday afternoon after PM Tayyip Erdogan refused to back down in the face of protests.

He criticizes the agency's spending.