Wednesday, July 31, 2013

2013/07/31 Headlines: Bradley Manning Acquitted on "Aiding the Enemy" Charge, Guilty on 20 Other Counts; Senate Hearing Tackles NSA Surveillance; Wyden: NSA Violations "More Serious" Than Acknowledged by Gov't; U.S. to Declassify Verizon Order on Phone Records; Appeals Court Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Tracking; Obama Seeks "Grand Bargain" With GOP on Reducing Tax Rates, Gov't Jobs; Kerry: Mideast Talks Seek "Final-Status" Deal Within 9 Months; Violence Thwarts Food Aid Delivery to 600,000 Syrians; Obama Taps GOP Senators for Egypt Talks; JPMorgan Pays $410 Million Fine for Energy Price Scheme; MIT Releases Probe of Own Handling of Aaron Swartz Case; DEA Pays $4.1 Million to Student Abandoned in Prison Cell; 6 Activists Detained in Senate Building Protesting Guantánamo Bay