Ariel Castor, the kidnapper and rapist of three woman, one of whom was kept captive for 11 years, was sentenced in Cleveland today to a term of life in prison plus 1,000 years. He will not leave prison alive.
For the first time since Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow on June 23rd, he left the Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport's transit zone and formally entered Russia on Thursday.
The U.S. has declassified secret orders that allowed it to engage in massive surveillance of the phone calls and Internet usage of Americans, information about two clandestine programs that former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden leaked last month.