NFL star Chad Johnson ripped by judge for slapping lawyer's ass

NFL star Chad Johnson ripped by judge for slapping lawyer's ass

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Chad Johnson was just kicked out of a Florida courtroom ... after the former NFL star playfully slapped his male lawyer's ass -- a move that ENRAGED the judge, TMZ has learned. 

Johnson was in court in Broward County, FL to face the judge for his recent probation violation in his domestic violence case. 

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US: Leak of NSA programs tests US, China ties

Leak of NSA programs tests US, China ties

Associated Press/Evan Vucci, File - FILE - In this Saturday, June 8, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping wave as they walk at the Annenberg Retreat of the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Weekend revelations that an American whistleblower holed up in Hong Kong has given an early test to the new working relationship the presidents of the U.S. and China tried to forge just a day earlier. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

BEIJING (AP) — A day after the presidents of China and the United States ended their first summit, pledges of cooperation by the two leaders faced an early test from an unexpected quarter -- an American intelligence contractor was leaking highly sensitive U.S. surveillance programs from his hiding place in the Chinese territory of Hong Kong.

China, which has long chafed at U.S. accusations that it carries out extensive surveillance on American government and commercial operations, may now have to make a decision on how to deal with the problem presented by the 29-year-old Edward Snowden, who has come out as the source of the leaks.

Cyber-security was one of the main topics during the informal summit this weekend between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama at an estate in the California desert where they also sought to build a personal relationship.

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2 Koreas to hold senior-level meeting in Seoul

2 Koreas to hold senior-level meeting in Seoul

Associated Press/South Korean Unification Ministry - In this photo released by the South Korean Unification Ministry, South Korea's Unification Policy Officer Chun Hae-sung, left, shakes hands with the head of North Korea's delegation Kim Song Hye, right, after ending their meeting at the southern side of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Monday, June 10, 2013. The rival Koreas will hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, South Korea said Monday, a breakthrough of sorts after Pyongyang’s recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul’s vows of counterstrikes.(AP Photo/South Korean Unification Ministry

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed Monday to hold senior-level talks this week in Seoul, a breakthrough of sorts to ease tensions after Pyongyang's recent threats of nuclear war and Seoul's vows of counterstrikes.

The two-day meeting starting Wednesday will focus on stalled cooperation projects, including the resumption of operations at a jointly-run factory park near the border in North Korea that was the last remaining symbol of inter-Korean rapprochement until Pyongyang pulled out its workers in April during heightened tensions that followed its February nuclear test.

The details of the upcoming talks were ironed out in a nearly 17-hour negotiating session by lower-level officials. Those discussions began Sunday in the countries' first government-level meeting on the Korean Peninsula in more than two years and took place at the village of Panmunjom on their heavily armed border, near where the armistice ending the three-year Korean War was signed 60 years ago next month. That truce has never been replaced with a peace treaty, leaving the Korean Peninsula technically at war.

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To retire securely, save like an Aussie

To retire securely, save like an Aussie

In the United States, fewer than half of all workers participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan. In Australia, about 90% of the workforce has a formal retirement account. The most important difference between the two systems, as Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s Nick Summers explains in a recent piece, is that in Australia, contributing to your account is mandatory—and most workers now put in a minimum of 9% of each paycheck. The result: A little more than 20 years after it was enacted, Australia’s Superannuation Guarantee program now has $1.52 trillion in assets, a little over half as much as the $2.8 trillion parked in American 401(k)s—in a country whose population is only one-fourteenth the size of ours.

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France: Daytime Hours for Aging Clubbers in Paris

Daytime Hours for Aging Clubbers in Paris

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US: You Say 'Car-ml,' I Say 'Carra-mel'

You Say 'Car-ml,' I Say 'Carra-mel'

Soda vs. pop: Coastal residents are more likely to use the word 'soda' (in red), while residents of the upper Midwest tend to use the word 'pop' (blue). 'Coke' (in green) serves as a stand-in for any sweetened, carbonated beverage in some Southern states.

Building on linguistic data from Dr. Bert Vaux of Cambridge University, North Carolina State University graduate student Joshua Katz has highlighted key differences in American dialects. These maps show the differences. ( See his full project. )

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US: We are being secretly watched

Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare

WASHINGTON (AP) — A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans'phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating terrorism under powers granted by Congress after the 9/11 attacks.

At issue is a court order, first disclosed Wednesday by The Guardian newspaper in Britain, that requires the communications companyVerizon to turn over on an "ongoing, daily basis" the records of all landline and mobile telephone calls of its customers, both within the U.S. and between the U.S. and other countries. Intelligence experts said the government, though not listening in on calls, would be looking for patterns that could lead to terrorists — and that there was every reason to believe similar orders were in place for other phone companies.

Some critics in Congress, as well as civil liberties advocates, declared that the sweeping nature of the National Security Agency program represented an unwarranted intrusion into Americans' private lives. But a number of lawmakers, including some Republicans who normally jump at the chance to criticize the Obama administration, lauded the program's effectiveness. Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said the program had helped thwart at least one attempted terrorist attack in the United States, "possibly saving American lives."

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