Beginning Friday, Alaskans on food stamps, like their counterparts across the nation, will see a 5% cut to their SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, allotment, meaning less healthy food for their tables.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is appealing to the United States for more help to fight a surge of violence in his country.
According to Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, U.S. spy agency contractor-turned-leaker, Edward Snowden has taken a job in Russia and will begin in November, it was announced on Thursday.
The U.S. says it is considering whether it should be spying on leaders of American allies after reports of surveillance that government officials say President Barack Obama was not aware of until a few months ago, even though it dates to 2002.