The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, established by Congress, concluded that the NSA collection of telephone records of millions of Americans is unconstitutional and is issuing a report calling for an end to the program on Thursday.
Israel released information on Wednesday saying that they had foiled a bombing plot on the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv that was in the "advanced planning stages."
An 8-year-old boy from East Rochester died in a trailer fire in Penfield, in up-state New York, early Monday morning trying to rescue his disabled grandfather after successfully waking up six family members.
Heavy snowfall, the heaviest of the year, is forecast in areas of the eastern United States Tuesday and temperatures are expected to fall to 10-25 degrees below normal.