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WASHINGTON - The massive leaks about U.S. spying systems caused sharp political and legal aftershocks Tuesday as the Justice Department prepared to file criminal charges against Edward Snowden, a government contractor who has publicly admitted disclosing highly classified telephone and Internet data-gathering operations. The vast scope of the government surveillance sparked the first federal lawsuit challenging its legality, a bipartisan effort in the Senate to declassify secret court orders that authorize the operations, and requests from Google and Facebook for permission to disclose more about National Security Agency requests for users' emails and other online communications.

Raleigh, N.C. - The Rev. Deborah Cayer arrived at the state Legislature building here Monday night wearing a protest button and toting an umbrella. She had tucked her driver's license into her skirt waistband. That was all she carried. She had come prepared to spend the night in jail. Along with 83 other opponents of the Republican-led legislature, Cayer and several fellow clergy members were arrested at a rainy "Moral Monday" protest. Their civil disobedience - they ignored police orders to disperse - was the latest in a growing series of protests over the conservative agenda of North Carolina's Republican-run state government.

With his photogenic wife at his side and a willingness to make eye contact and engage in small talk, Xi Jinping looks more like an American politician than the gray suits who populate the upper ranks of Chinese politics. One of his first acts as head of the Chinese Communist Party last year was to ban long speeches, banquets and red carpets. But during his first months in power, Xi has proved himself more hard-line on a number of issues than his recent predecessors. He has tightened censorship in academia and the media, and spearheaded China's territorial assertions in the South China and East China seas.

A veteran Los Angeles County Probation Department officer assigned to aid in the rehabilitation of juvenile offenders has been placed on unpaid leave after being arrested on suspicion that she contributed to the delinquency of her own children. Ruth Marzan, an officer with more than two decades with the department, was arrested by sheriff's deputies May 25 at a Kmart in Temple City after security personnel alleged that they saw her shoplift items and coach her two teenage children to do the same.

How can you tell if you or someone you know is having a heart attack? Sometimes the symptoms can be surprisingly subtle. "They can be very different from person to person, between women and men and even within an individual who has more than one heart attack," says Dr. David Rizik, director of Interventional Cardiology for Scottsdale Healthcare Hospitals, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Men and women may experience atypical heart attack symptoms. In contrast to the "classic" chest-splitting, gasping-for-breath symptoms, many heart attacks begin with symptoms that are so mild they are often mistaken for indigestion or muscle ache.

The arrest of a South Pasadena investment manager on insider trading charges extended the government's sweeping investigation beyond Wall Street into a remote outpost of the investment world. Danny Kuo, a technology expert at Whittier Trust Co., was taken into custody by FBI agents in the cold pre-dawn hours Wednesday at his two-story Spanish-style home in a residential neighborhood. Unlike the dozens of high-level hedge fund managers who have been arrested in the government's four-year crackdown on illicit trading, Kuo, 36, toiled at a mid-size 77-year-old firm that keeps a low profile and caters to rich families.

Investigators don't know where 15-year-old Sierra LaMar is, but they are almost certain she is dead. For more than two months, the high school cheerleader's family has been holding out hope. They have organized repeated searches of the Northern California neighborhood where she disappeared and made numerous public appeals for help. On Tuesday, even as authorities announced the arrest of a 21-year-old suspect on suspicion of murder, Marlene LaMar vowed not to stop looking for her daughter.

In this Southern city famed for its science and technology, residents are coming to grips with perhaps the most unsettling fact in Friday's campus shooting: The suspect was not a student but a professor. And, it was learned Saturday that she had fatally shot her brother in 1986. Amy Bishop, 45, a neurobiologist and assistant professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, was arrested shortly after the incident and charged with capital murder. She is accused of killing three of her colleagues and injuring three more during a faculty meeting.

Chad Johnson, a day after his arrest on suspicion of simple domestic battery, has been released by the Miami Dolphins. The team posted a one-sentence item on its website saying, "The Miami Dolphins terminated the contract of WR Chad Johnson, the team announced today. " Officials said Johnson, a six-time Pro Bowl selection, was arrested Saturday night in front of his Davie, Fla., home after an argument with his wife, Evelyn Lozada, over a receipt she found for condoms. Lozada allegedly told police that Johnson head-butted her during their argument.

If Reese Witherspoon is going to fight charges for disorderly conduct, the police report from her and her husband's arrest could suggest a defense strategy: That the “Legally Blonde” actress is a U.S. citizen and thus allowed to “stand on American ground.” Witherspoon was taken into custody along with her husband, agent Jim Toth, early Friday in Atlanta. Toth was arrested on suspicion of DUI after reportedly driving in the wrong lane and then failing a field sobriety and breath test.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for police to take DNA samples from all people arrested in serious crimes, a major step toward expanding a national database that will match new suspects to evidence from old crime scenes. The decision means that a mouth swab for DNA is likely to become as common as taking fingerprints and a mug shot of those who are taken to a police station under arrest. That's a major victory for investigators, who say DNA testing is the most effective way to catch serial rapists, killers and other violent criminals.

LONDON - British authorities on Thursday began combing through their intelligence files and evidence from the attack site to determine whether the apparently terrorism-related killing of a young soldier on a London street could have been prevented. As political and community leaders vowed not to be cowed by the vicious assault, Scotland Yard announced the arrest of two additional suspects. A man and a woman, both 29, were held on suspicion of conspiring to murder. Investigators gave no further information.

Authorities have arrested a purported "secretary" for the Mexican Mafia who allegedly helped funnel information through Los Angeles County jails - from her home in Kansas. Cecilia Virgen-DeLeon, 31, was taken into custody about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday in Salina, a town of about 50,000 in the heart of the state, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Francis Hardiman said in a phone interview from Kansas. The so-called secretaries of organized crime groups often use fraudulent cellphone accounts to help push information - about drug movements, hits and other matters - to shot-callers inside the jails, Hardiman said.

 A 51-year-old man who allegedly represented himself as a Disney family member was arrested in connection with stealing Disneyland passes in a felony burglary case, authorities said Wednesday evening. Stephen Urquidez allegedly had a fake driver's license identifying himself as "Stephen Disney" and false tax forms showing income from the Walt Disney Corp., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Urquidez gave Disneyland passes to woman he knew so she could donate them for a raffle for a nonprofit where she does volunteer work, department officials said in a statement.

If you're an “Arrested Development” fan, you are probably already counting down the minutes until Sunday, when 15 new episodes of the beloved sitcom will premiere on Netflix, more than seven years after it was canceled by Fox. And if you're not, well, you're probably wondering why everyone suddenly seems mad for frozen bananas . Jason Bateman, who plays level-headed Michael Bluth on the series, has witnessed the feverish “Arrested Development”...

Now that we've raised the "mission accomplished" banner on the "Arrested Development" reunion , can we get the wheels in motion and reassemble the cast of another dearly departed cult TV favorite -- "Freaks and Geeks"? "Oh, we couldn't afford them," "Freaks" creator Paul Feig says. "It'd be the most expensive cast ever. " We think Feig, who's following up his acclaimed directing work on "Bridesmaids" with the upcoming female buddy cop flick "The Heat," is being a bit disingenuous . Yes, we know "Freaks" cast members James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Linda Cardellini ( was this a great ensemble or what?

Looks to be a double-dose of regret coming out of the Reese Witherspoon-Jim Toth camp in the wake of their couples-style arrest in Friday's wee hours in Atlanta. In case you missed it: Toth was arrested on suspicion of DUI after reportedly driving in the wrong lane and then blowing a 0.139 on a breath test. In the process, Witherspoon declared herself to be famous -- a tidbit shared with a cop who couldn't have given a flying fig and arrested her for disorderly conduct. Leading up to her arrest, Witherspoon questioned whether the trooper was a real officer, according to the police report posted by the Smoking Gun , and was told "to sit on her butt and be quiet.

After news broke of the arrest of notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, presidential candidate Mitt Romney paused to comment. "I hope the capture of Whitey Bulger brings some measure of relief to the families of his numerous victims," the former Massachusetts governor said in a statement today. "It brings to a close a sad and sordid chapter in recent Massachusetts history. " Bulger, now 81, has been on the run since 1994, when he fled Boston as federal agents were preparing to arrest him in connection with at least 19 killings, racketeering offenses and other crimes from the early 1970s to mid-1980s.

Backup quarterback Josh Portis was released by the Seattle Seahawks on Tuesday, the day after news of his arrest for suspicion of driving under the inflence earlier this month became public. Portis faces a court arraignment next week after his May 5 arrest. After being pulled over for allegedly driving 80 miles per hour in a 60 mph zone, Portis performed poorly in field sobriety tests and later registered blood-alcohol content of .092% and .078% in breath tests, authorities said.

As Tobias Funke, "Arrested Development's" doctor-turned-actor, David Cross has suffered many indignities, from wearing a ridiculous mustache in every episode to being turned completely blue. But to promote the imminent release of new "AD" episodes on Netflix, Cross is making the boldest step yet: He's putting himself in the hands of the fans, allowing them to inflict any indignities they want on him. Appearing in front of a green screen as Funke, Cross is offering six in-costume performances -- cowpoke, action hero, doctor, big man on campus, motorcycle ruffian and average fellow -- and asking fans (or any big-name Hollywood filmmaker)