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NSA leaker reveals himself after fleeing US
Nick O'Malley Edward Snowden, the man behind one of the most significant security leaks in American history, has revealed himself to be a 29-year-old systems analyst who had worked for a private security...
Democrats mourn the end of Bachmann blunders
Nick O'Malley Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman from Minnesota and self-appointed Tea Party figurehead, has announced she will not contest the 2014 mid-term elections.
Spy triumph became a free speech disaster
Nick O'Malley The AP phone records story came at the worst possible time for President Barack Obama.
Cleaving to hope
Nick O'Malley Louwana Miller never stopped fighting for her daughter who disappeared in April 2003.
Lost in plain sight
Nick O'Malley Louwana Miller never stopped fighting for her daughter, Amanda Berry, who disappeared in Cleveland in April 2003, the day before her 17th birthday.
Capitol succumbs to scandal fever
Nick O'Malley Scandal fever has so thoroughly gripped Washington some players were having difficulty distinguishing one from another on Tuesday.
'How can standing by watching that go on not be committing a crime?'
Nick O'Malley A small US town's football culture comes under the microscope over a callous teen rape.
Clinton faces off against her Libya critics
Nick O'Malley, Washington Defending her legacy and perhaps protecting her future, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced congressional committees over the killing of the US ambassador to Libya, with a performance that...
Clinton toughs it out and lives to fight again
Nick O'Malley WASHINGTON: Defending her legacy and perhaps protecting her future, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, faced congressional committees over the killing of the US ambassador to Libya, with a...
God bless America
Nick O'Malley After Newtown's children were shot dead, the gravel parking lot out the front of the Clark Brothers gun shop in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia filled up and the queues snaked...
The ripple effect will make this an affair to remember
Nick O'Malley It should be the simplest story in the world; a powerful man in a sensitive job is forced to resign due to an illicit affair.
Hold fire on Petraeus, Obama warns
Nick O'Malley Barack Obama says he has seen no evidence of any breach of national security as a result of the General Petraeus affair.
Private affair, public downfall
Nick O'Malley In the fever swamps online, and on Fox News, the story is that David Petraeus was forced out of his post as CIA director by the White House in order to prevent his testimony before a Senate committee...
Petraeus shockwaves jeopardise more top jobs
Nick O'Malley The sex scandal that destroyed the career of CIA director David Petraeus continues to reverberate in Washington.
Timeline: the unfolding of the Petraeus affair scandal
Nick O'Malley Spring 2006 — Paula Broadwell meets Petraeus at Harvard University, where she is a graduate student.
Seven dead after shooting at Sikh temple in US
Nick O'Malley Seven people have been killed, including a suspect, in another mass shooting in the United States, this time at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Army veteran named as gunman who killed six Sikhs at temple
Nick O'Malley WASHINGTON: The Sikh community was in shock and mourning last night after six people were killed in another mass shooting in the US, this time at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee,...
