WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. magistrate has ordered Apple to help the Obama administration hack into an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack.
The ruling by Sheri Pym on Tuesday requires Apple to supply highly specialized software to the FBI that can be loaded onto the phone to cripple a security encryption feature that erases data after too many unsuccessful unlocking attempts.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration, frustrated by Syria's ongoing violence, told Russia on Tuesday to "put up or shut up" about implementing a ceasefire in the Arab country, even as the U.S. backpedaled from an agreement for the truce to begin by Friday.
Washington and Moscow announced after at a conference in Germany last week that the ceasefire would start by Feb. 19, raising hopes of a major breakthrough in a war that has raged for nearly five years, killed more than 250,000 people, beset Europe with its worst refugee crisis since World War II and helped the Islamic State emerge.
