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Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

** FILE ** Glenn Greenwald is surrounded by the media as he arrives for the Polk Awards luncheon on Friday April 11, 2014, in New York. Greenwald of The Guardian came to New York to share a George Polk Award for national security reporting on National Security Agency surveillance. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Glenn Greenwald dishes on what it took to work with Edward Snowden

Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, who helped to blow the lid off secretive U.S. spying programs last year, said Thursday he was leery at first of Edward Snowden's offer to speak about the programs over a secure line of cyber communication.

May 15, 2014
**FILE** Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent (Associated Press)

Senate to hold hearing on VA problems Thursday

The Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs will hold a hearing Thursday on the state of the VA health care, as debate rages on Capitol Hill about backlogs and long wait times that may have harmed, or even killed, veterans in the Phoenix area and elsewhere.

May 14, 2014
** FILE ** In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, convicted felons from Yolo County arrive at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California may distribute condoms to prison inmates

California lawmakers are considering a measure that would allow the state to distribute condoms to prison inmates, an attempt to cut down on sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, although sex acts between inmates would remain unlawful.

May 14, 2014