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US: No plans to end broad surveillance program

US: No plans to end broad surveillance program
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 11th
By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is weighing whether to charge a government contractor with leaking classified government secrets while it defends a much-criticized National Security Agency surveillance program as an indispensable tool for

China setting up first university campuses abroad

China setting up first university campuses abroad
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 11th
By DIDI TANGAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) - In the capital of tropical Laos, two dozen students who see their future in trade ties with neighboring China spent their school year attending Mandarin classes in a no-frills, rented room. It's the start of China's first, and almost certainly not

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats. But a senior intelligence official said there

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats. But a senior intelligence official said there

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad

US spy programs raise ire both home and abroad
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration faced fresh anger Monday at home and abroad over U.S. spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats. But a senior intelligence official said there

Leaker Of U.S. Classified Info. In Hong Kong

Leaker Of U.S. Classified Info. In Hong Kong
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
WASHINGTON (AP) - The man who has admitted giving classified documents to reporters -- and making public a pair of wide-ranging U.S. surveillance programs -- could face decades in prison. But the United States would have to get its hands on him first.    Edward Snowden says he has

McDonald's says cheap eats helped lift sales

McDonald's says cheap eats helped lift sales
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
NEW YORK (AP) - Cheap eats and new menu items helped McDonald's boost a key sales figure in May, bouncing back from a decline the previous month. The world's biggest hamburger chain said Monday that global sales rose 2.6 percent at restaurants open at least a year, helped by an extra Friday

Ex-China railways boss admits guilt at graft trial

Ex-China railways boss admits guilt at graft trial
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
By GILLIAN WONGAssociated Press BEIJING (AP) - The man who once ran China's powerful railways ministry wept as he admitted his guilt and sought leniency at his trial on corruption charges, one of the country's highest-level graft cases in years. Liu Zhijun, 60, who oversaw the ministry'

Japan's Nikkei outperforms as growth revised up

Japan's Nikkei outperforms as growth revised up
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
By PAN PYLASAP Business Writer LONDON (AP) - An upward revision to Japanese growth helped the country's Nikkei stock index surge Monday while markets elsewhere settled down following last week's better-than-expected U.S. jobs data. The Nikkei soared 4.9 percent to 13,514.20 after the first-

Ukrainian pianist and Cliburn winner credits mom

Ukrainian pianist and Cliburn winner credits mom
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 10th
By ANGELA K. BROWNAssociated Press FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Playing the piano at age 5 certainly wasn't Vadym Kholodenko's idea, but after his mother took him to a music school, he quickly grew to love it while growing up in Kiev, Ukraine. "She thought I had potential in music, but she