San Bernardino

Families of San Bernardino shooting are taking Facebook, Google and Twitter to court

The relatives of these victims assert that by allowing Islamic State militants to spread propaganda freely on social media websites like Facebook and Twitter, the three companies provided "material support" to the group and enabled attacks.

California gunman kills estranged wife, 8-year-old student before shooting himself

A man walked into his estranged wife's elementary school classroom in San Bernardino and opened fire without saying a word, killing her and an eight-year-old student before shooting himself in a murder-suicide that spread panic across a city still recovering emotionally from a terror attack just 15 months ago.

FBI releases heavily censored documents related to its hacking of San Bernardino shooter's iPhone

The FBI on Friday released 100 pages of heavily censored documents related to its agreement with an unidentified vendor to hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino

Newly appointed FBI head in San Francisco, Jack Bennett was a key figure in iPhone hack

Special Agent Jack Bennett was at the FBI's computer investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia, on a Sunday in March when an outside company showed the bureau how it could hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Associated Press and two other news organizations sue FBI to learn iPhone hacking details

The Associated Press and two other news organisations sued the FBI on Friday to learn who the government paid and how much it spent to hack into an iPhone in its investigation into last year's San Bernardino, California, massacre.

California wildfire: Residents refuse to evacuate despite fire danger

Within hours, towering, fast- moving flames had ravaged pine forests near the California ski town of Wrightwood but only half of its more than 4,500 residents had heeded mandatory evacuation orders.

'Blue Cut Fire' in Southern California rages unchecked after evacuations

Obama to keep off hot-button tech from the agenda in Silicon Valley

President Barack Obama will head to Silicon Valley on Friday to a summit aimed at connecting about 1,200 entrepreneurs from 170 countries with the biggest and brightest players in the U.S. tech sector and venture capital community.

Mass shooting incidents like Orlando to recur in absence of strict gun control laws: Obama

US President Barack Obama has warned that horrific mass shooting incidents like the recent one in Orlando will continue to occur unless tougher gun control laws are adopted.

Despite Apple case spotlight, push for encryption law falters.

After a rampage in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring tech companies to give law enforcement a "back door" to encryption in communications and electronic devices, such as the iPhone used by one of the shooters.