As the holiday season got underway between November 27th and December 15th, approximately 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target were compromised as a result of a security breach at Target according to the retail giant.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says former U.S. national security contractor Edward Snowden is "noble," but that neither he nor Russian security agencies have had any contact with him.
China has confirmed an incident in which a U.S. missile cruiser nearly collided with a Chinese warship in the South China Sea earlier this month.
The US has at least two more millionaires today after the numbers 8-14-17-20-39 and the Mega number 7 added up to two winners, one in San Jose and the other in Atlanta. The odds of winning the lottery in last night's drawing were approximately 259 million to 1.