President Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States and delivered an inaugural address focusing on the themes of sacrifice and renewal on January 20, 2009.
Thousands of protesters gathered in St. Paul, Minn., the site of the Republican National Convention. As tensions mounted between those gathered and police, AP photojournalist Evan Vucci was in the middle of the crowd.
Instead of providing Viacom the user names and IP addresses for everyone who has viewed a video on YouTube, Google will provide a random, anonymous code number, a spokesman for the company told CNN.
NEW YORK (CNN) — Viacom has agreed to let Google strip identifying information from YouTube viewers’ data before complying with a judge’s order to hand over the records as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit.
Viacom and other parties to the litigation agreed to allow YouTube to remove user names and computer Internet protocol (IP) addresses from the data to ensure protection of users’ privacy, YouTube said in a blog posting late Monday night. YouTube is a Google subsidiary.
“We remain committed to protecting your privacy and we’ll continue to fight for your right to share and broadcast your work on YouTube,” reads the posting.
Talks on Iran’s nuclear program ended in a stalemate Saturday, despite the Bush administration’s decision to send an official for the first time.
An hour into the talks, Iran “ruled out any freeze on its uranium enrichment program,” the Associated Press reported.
Six world powers entered talks hosted by Switzerland in hope of a compromise: Iran ceases to expand its nuclear program and no new sanctions will be placed on the country.
But there is “no chance” of that, the Iranian delegation said.
Iran has defied three sets of UN sanctions, saying it has the “right to nuclear technology for peaceful uses.”
President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to send another 1,000 troops to the US border with Mexico, amid mounting tension over a wall and a national emergency declared by the president a week ago. The number of U.S. troops on the border will increase to around 6,000 by March 1, a senior defense official said, […]
Nineteen Democratic lawmakers urged President Donald Trump to remove Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta over a sweetheart plea deal he oversaw a decade ago for accused child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein while serving as the top federal prosecutor in Miami, Florida. The letter came the same day a federal judge in Florida ruled that Acosta and […]
A small weekly newspaper in Alabama whose longtime editor recently wrote an editorial calling for the Ku Klux Klan to “ride again” — and then doubled down on his comments by advocating lynching his political opponents — is handing over the publication to a black woman. Elecia R. Dexter will take over as publisher and […]
Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado was in Iowa as speculation mounts that he will join the increasingly crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential contenders.
First things first: The theme song of the week is Thank You for Being A Friend from the show The Golden Girls written by Andrew Gold and sung by Cynthia Fee.
They once were Donald Trump's strutting, sharp-suited alpha male political and legal fixers, living high and playing the game hard, seemingly immune from the consequences of their willingness to walk on the dark side.
Special counsel Robert Mueller is not expected to deliver his report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election next week, a Justice Department official briefed on the plans told CNN.
Rep. Joe Kennedy said he hopes for the sake of the country and the integrity of the US election process that special counsel Robert Mueller turns up nothing in his Russia investigation.