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Google challenges surveillance court on First Amendment grounds
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google Inc asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment grounds.
In its filing, Google requested the court to allow it to publish the aggregate number of national security requests it receives, including disclosures under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), claiming it as part of its First Amendment right to free speech.
Adobe profit beats as Creative Cloud subscriptions soar
By Sruthi Ramakrishnan
(Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc, which makes the Photoshop and Acrobat software, reported a higher-than-expected adjusted quarterly profit as demand rose for Creative Cloud, the subscription-based version of its flagship software package.
Shares of the company rose 4.4 percent in after-market trading. They closed at $43.36 on the Nasdaq on Tuesday.
Adobe has been shifting to web-based subscription service Creative Cloud from a licensing model since last year. The company said it added 221,000 paid Creative Cloud subscribers in the latest quarter, taking the total to 700,000.
Wall St. extends rise, investors see no change in Fed policy
By Ryan Vlastelica
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks advanced for a second straight day on Tuesday as investors bet the Federal Reserve would temper statements which were interpreted to mean a sooner-than-expected winding down of stimulus efforts.
Strong market breadth showed an increased appetite for equities, but trading volume was light, a sign that many market participants were taking a wait-and-see attitude.
The Fed's two-day policy meeting started Tuesday, and traders are trying to guess its timeline for scaling back purchases of $85 billion per month of bonds.
Italian court on reason for Knox retrial: Evidence neglected
'Excessive' use of face-down restraint
The government is considering a ban on the use of face-down restraint in English mental hospitals.
The move follows figures which show the controversial technique being used hundreds of times a year in some trusts - a level described by a health minister as "shocking" and apparently "excessive".
Google files First Amendment court case against NSA surveillance secrecy
Google filed a court petition Tuesday demanding it be allowed to share information about government surveillance programs with the public.
In a First Amendment plea lodged with the secretive U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Google(GOOG, Fortune 500) asked that the court let it disclose the scope of the newly discovered "Prism" program. Google also asked for the ability to share the number of user accounts associated with those secret data requests.
Gangs of Cairo? Egyptian minister fights culture war
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CAIRO (Reuters) - "Gangs of New York" seems a fitting favourite movie for Egypt's new culture minister, a film studies professor who styles himself an outsider fighting to break the hold of a privileged elite over spending on the arts.
Artists enraged that he fired the head of Cairo Opera, and fearing Muslim puritans may ban ballet, have barricaded Alaa Abdel Aziz from entering his own ministry.
Gravestone of late Mayor Koch had birth date wrong
NEW YORK |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Mayor Ed Koch was 88 years old when he died in February, despite what his gravestone said.
A worker at the Trinity Cemetery in Manhattan noticed last week that the gravestone's inscription shaved 18 years off the mayor's life after a stonecutter transposed two digits in his birth year, a Trinity spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Feds charge 3 in Ohio slavery case
- The suspects are charged with holding a disabled woman and her daughter
- Prosecutors say they used dogs and snakes to keep her compliant
- The case began to unfold after the woman was arrested for shoplifting
- Police "detected that there was other issues" and began to investigate, chief says
(CNN) -- A mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held in an Ohio apartment for two years, forced to perform manual labor and threatened with dogs and snakes to keep them compliant, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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