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PORTLAND, Ore. – A lawsuit filed Tuesday asked a federal court to shut down electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency, based on claims the NSA illegally wiretapped conversations between the director of an Islamic charity and two of the charity’s attorneys. A chapter of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a …

CINCINNATI – Tiny silicon chips were embedded into two workers who volunteered to help test the tagging technology at a surveillance equipment company, an official said Monday. The Mexico attorney general’s office implanted the so-called RFIDs — for radio frequency identification chips — in some employees in 2004 to restrict …

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A national retailers association filed suit in federal court Tuesday, challenging a Maryland law that requires Wal-Mart to spend more on health care for its employees. Maryland became the first state to enact such a law when Democrats in the General Assembly overrode Republican Gov. Robert L. …