Associated Press reporters are not alone. One week after news broke that the Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from AP, more news has emerged about the Obama administration’s campaign to silence leaks.

This time, it’s new details about a 2010 Justice Department investigation into a Fox News correspondent who reported government secrets on North Korea. The twist is that in the Fox News case, the government is suggesting that the reporter broke the law and criminal charges could result.

The news points to how the Obama administration is going to unprecedented lengths to defend secrets – prosecuting more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined.

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Anecdotal evidence suggests the crackdown is having an effect, with AP saying some of its sources are falling silent. But that success could come at the expense of the newsgathering and investigative-reporting process that the Founding Fathers saw as a crucial check on federal power.

The Fox News case, in particular, suggests the “criminalization of investigative journalism,” writes Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian, a British newspaper.

According to a Washington Post report Sunday, Fox News chief Washington correspondent James Rosen reported in June 2009 on a CIA analysis that suggested North Korea may respond to UN sanctions with more nuclear tests. The story was published online the same day that a confidential report on the matter was released to select officials in the intelligence community, including a State Department security adviser, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim.

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Detecting a connection, FBI investigators built a case alleging Mr. Kim leaked information to Mr. Rosen. To do so, they used every tool in their arsenal: analyzing security badge access records to track Rosen’s comings and goings from the State Department, tracing the timing of his calls to Kim, even subpoenaing his personal e-mails.

Ultimately, FBI agents concluded Kim did, in fact, leak information to Rosen using a complex, if clumsy, system of communication including aliases and coded signals.

In his report, FBI investigator Reginald Reyes said evidence suggested Rosen had broken the law, “at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator.”

While details on the case are forthcoming, it is not a crime for journalists to report classified information, except in rare circumstances. Furthermore, government seizure of media records is tightly circumscribed under the government’s Code of Federal Regulations.

The AP and Fox News cases renew concerns about the potential stifling effect government investigations have on reporters and their sources.

“Search warrants like these have a severe chilling effect on the free flow of important information to the public,” said First Amendment lawyer Charles Tobin in the Washington Post report. “That’s a very dangerous road to go down.”

Jane Mayer of The New Yorker goes further: “It’s a huge impediment to reporting, and so chilling isn’t quite strong enough, it’s more like freezing the whole process into a standstill,” she told the New Republic.

As a case in point, Gary Pruitt, CEO of the AP, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” this weekend that the Justice Department’s investigation is already silencing AP sources.

“Already, officials that would normally talk to us and people we talk to in the normal course of news gathering are already saying to us that they’re a little reluctant to talk to us,” he said. “They fear that they – they will be monitored by the government.”

Perhaps the most serious implication, however, is that the investigations threaten to jeopardize the very practice of investigative journalism, already endangered by budget cuts and the 24/7 news cycle.

“Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information,” writes The Guardian’s Mr. Greenwald. “That fact, along with the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret. This newfound theory of the Obama DOJ – that a journalist can be guilty of crimes for ‘soliciting’ the disclosure of classified information – is a means for circumventing those safeguards and criminalizing the act of investigative journalism itself.”

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Deborah Turness was the first person interviewed for the prestigious job at the top of NBC News earlier this year. It was a telephone interview, because Ms. Turness was in London, where she oversaw ITV News. The person on the other end, Patricia Fili-Krushel, was so impressed that she flew Ms. Turness to New York for a follow-up.

On Monday, Ms. Turness, 46, was named president of NBC News, ending a search that took months and beginning a new era for a wounded news division that forfeited its top spot in the morning television ratings race last year to its archrival, ABC News. NBC’s “Today,” the most profitable part of the news division, has yet to recover.

Early this month, in another loss for NBC News, its parent network canceled “Rock Center With Brian Williams,” the two-year-old newsmagazine that had struggled to hold onto a time slot.

The decision to look outside NBC and the United States for a president suggests that NBCUniversal executives were yearning for new thinking. In her public statement about the appointment, Ms. Fili-Krushel, the chairwoman of the NBCUniversal News Group, mentioned Ms. Turness’s “proven track record for innovation and collaboration.”

Ms. Fili-Krushel has told others that the top priorities are reviving “Today,” which remains in second place behind ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and “future-proofing NBC News” in a rapidly changing digital age.

Ms. Turness will be the first woman to run a network news division in the United States. She held a similarly groundbreaking position in Britain, where she was the first woman to be editor of a television news division. She will succeed Steve Capus, who stepped down in February after nearly eight years at the helm.

Andrew Heyward, a former president of CBS News, called the gender milestone a “way overdue” one.

“Women arguably determine the fate of prime-time television and of television news, and up until now, haven’t had the chance to direct it, at least at this level,” said Mr. Heyward, a consultant who is working with NBC News on a potential project.

Through a spokeswoman, Ms. Turness declined an interview request on Monday. She was in London, convening a staff meeting for her longtime colleagues at ITV News to tell them of her move, which will take effect in August. She will meet the staff of NBC, a unit of Comcast, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

In a statement, she called her appointment “the greatest imaginable honor.”

“I am hugely excited by the opportunities that lie ahead and look forward to working with the talented journalists and technicians who make it one of the great global news operations,” she said.

NBC News, founded in 1940, was the nation’s first producer of television news. Despite its struggles in the mornings, it is, by many measures, the most successful of the American network news divisions, reaching tens of millions of viewers a day. Its flagship nightly newscast, anchored by Mr. Williams, remains first in the ratings, and its in-house production company, called Peacock Productions, continues to strike deals with cable channels that want its programming.

The news division is profitable, an important point in light of Comcast’s efforts to turn around the rest of NBC. In the first quarter of the year, the broadcast network was a drag on NBCUniversal’s earnings because of depressed ratings in prime time.

More broadly, Ms. Turness will face the same challenges as her counterparts at ABC and CBS. As television viewers spend more time online, news producers have to move with them to avoid losing market share.

NBC News took control of its main Web site, MSNBC.com, last summer, when it dissolved a joint venture with Microsoft at a cost of about $200 million to the network. It renamed the Web site NBCNews.com and began to integrate Web staffers into its daily operations. This fall, MSNBC.com will become a destination for MSNBC, the liberal-leaning cable channel that has been a profit center for NBC News.

Ms. Turness’s job will be smaller than her predecessor’s because she will not have oversight of MSNBC. That is a result of a restructuring that began last summer, after “Today” fell to second place, ending a 16-year winning streak. Mr. Capus, the president of NBC News at the time, stopped reporting directly to Steve Burke, the chief executive of NBCUniversal. Instead, the news division became one unit within an umbrella group called the NBCUniversal News Group. Mr. Burke named Ms. Fili-Krushel chairwoman of the new group, which included MSNBC and CNBC. Mr. Capus resigned partly because of his dissatisfaction with this arrangement.

Some business functions of NBC News are now handled by the umbrella group. And Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, who previously reported to Mr. Capus, now reports to Ms. Fili-Krushel, and will continue to do so after Ms. Turness arrives. This change implies that Comcast is putting distance between the traditionally nonpartisan NBC News and the more opinionated, controversial MSNBC.

Ms. Fili-Krushel, to whom Ms. Turness will report, declined an interview request. In an internal memorandum, she said that at ITV News Ms. Turness “has earned a reputation for being a strong leader, innovator and respected journalist, and I look forward to her joining NBC News.”

ITV and NBC News have had a content-sharing relationship for several years. NBC sometimes televises reports from ITV correspondents in Africa and the Middle East. That may ease Ms. Turness’s arrival at NBC.

But her first test may come in the mornings, a time with which she has little professional experience. “Today” is giving up millions of dollars in potential advertising revenue because of its second-place status. While there are no impending talent changes, the co-host of “Today” Matt Lauer signed a contract last year that is believed to be his last at the show. Ms. Turness may have to help manage the trickiest transition since the departure of Ann Curry, then Mr. Lauer’s co-host, from “Today” last June.

By Liana B. Baker

(Reuters) – Deborah Turness, a former top TV news editor in Britain, will take over as NBC News president in August, at a time when it is looking to turn around the fortunes of its news division.

Turness will replace Steve Capus, who left the network in February. She will report to Patricia Fili-Krushel, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, who oversees the news unit’s business operations. NBC is owned by Comcast Corp.

NBC’s broadcast news unit has stumbled of late, largely because its morning show and profit center, “Today,” is sagging in the ratings. There are also industry wide questions about the relevance of a nightly newscast, long an NBC strength.

In May, NBC canceled news anchor Brian Williams‘ TV news magazine, “Rock Center,” after lackluster ratings.

“There’s a perception that NBC News is slipping. There’s been a fair amount of discontent among the affiliates and they’re ready to embrace her and meaningful change,” said Steve Ridge, a Magid Associates consultant who works with network affiliates of NBC.

The broadcast network’s national news program “NBC Nightly News” is averaging 8.169 million total viewers, ahead of “ABC World News” and “CBS Evening News.” But ratings for all nightly news broadcasts have been declining for years.

Turness’s first job, though, may be to help Fili-Krushel fix the struggling “Today,” which Fili-Krushel has called too “complacent.”

“Today” has been losing viewers to ABC’s “Good Morning America,” which snapped NBC’s 16-year unbeaten ratings streak last year. Its longtime co-anchor Matt Lauer has been the subject of a series of articles speculating on his future on “Today.”

ABC is owned by Walt Disney Co and CBS by CBS Corp.

TOUGH COMPETITOR

Turness, 46, has a solid track record in Britain, where she worked as the editor of ITV News since 2004. She was thought to hold her own in a highly competitive environment, up against the much bigger news budgets of the BBC and Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News.

“She had some outstanding journalists and she managed to keep them. She is very highly thought of,” said Steve Hewlett, a media consultant and former ITV executive.

ITV is Britain’s biggest commercial free-to-air broadcaster, although it tends to lose out to the BBC in terms of viewer ratings on the big events. But Turness helped land some coups for ITV, including an interview with Prince William and Kate Middleton following their engagement.

NBC is not the first U.S. news organization to look to the UK for its next leader. The New York Times Co appointed Mark Thompson, a director-general of the BBC, to be chief executive last year. Turness is somewhat familiar with NBC from the partnership ITV had with the U.S. network.

NBC said in a statement that Turness will be responsible for all of NBC News, including breaking news coverage at its bureaus as well as shows including “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,” the “Today” show, “Meet the Press” and “Dateline.”

Compared to the broadcast side, NBC’s cable news networks are thriving. CNBC is still far and away the leading business news network. MSNBC has surpassed CNN to become a strong No. 2 among general cable news networks, while closing the gap with longtime ratings leader Fox News, owned by News Corp.

Magid’s Ridge said NBC was right to choose an outsider with a global slant who can enact change at the struggling news unit.

“She has a really good outside perspective to be able to look at the product and figure out how to make some bolder moves to shake things up,” Ridge said.

(Reporting by Liana B. Baker in New York and Kate Holton in London; Editing by G Crosse and Phil Berlowitz)

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – For millions of low-income families, the federal government’s Lifeline program offers affordable phone service. But an online security lapse has exposed tens of thousands of them to an increased risk of identity theft.

A Scripps News investigation, Privacy on the Line, unearthed more than 170,000 records containing sensitive details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses and financial account information. The records were widely available online this spring after being collected for two phone companies participating in Lifeline: Oklahoma City-based TerraCom, Inc. and its affiliate, YourTel America, Inc.

Federal regulations require Lifeline carriers to secure customers’ personal records.

Scripps contacted dozens of people whose private information was posted online. When they learned of the security breach, many were shocked. Linda Mendez doesn’t know how she’ll protect herself and her family. The risk is “just destroying us,” said Mendez, who lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her husband and four children.

The investigation also revealed dubious practices for collecting sensitive personal information. A former Indianapolis worker for SafeLink Wireless, another phone company, described recording Lifeline applicants’ driver’s licenses, Medicaid cards and Social Security numbers in a notebook or with his personal cellphone camera — and said his employer never asked whether he had destroyed the data. The Lifeline program strictly forbids retaining it.

The Indiana attorney general’s office, responding to Scripps’ reporting, has launched an investigation into the release of TerraCom applicants’ personal data. The Texas attorney general’s office also is scrutinizing the practices of TerraCom and YourTel. Company officials declined numerous requests for an interview. But, in a written statement, Dale Schmick, chief operating officer of both companies, said they were “actively investigating the full extent of any security breach.”

A lawyer representing both TerraCom and YourTel accused Scripps of accessing the records illegally. Scripps denied the charge and offered to share a video it produced demonstrating how the reporter found the documents.

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President Obama walks across the tarmac to greet well-wishers on Sunday upon his arrival in Atlanta, Ga., where he will attend the commencement at Morehouse College.

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President Obama walks across the tarmac to greet well-wishers on Sunday upon his arrival in Atlanta, Ga., where he will attend the commencement at Morehouse College.

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Talk during the Sunday news shows today focused expectedly on the trifecta of scandals — IRS targeting of conservative groups, the seizure of AP phone records and the attack of the Benghazi consulate — rocking the Obama administration.

We thought we’d save you some time and give you some of the highlights:

‘A Culture Of Intimidation’:

On Meet The Press, Sen. Mitch McConnell said the IRS controversy highlighted the administration’s “culture of intimidation.”

NBC News adds:

But he and Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., admitted they lacked evidence that the targeting of conservatives was ordered by the White House.

“‘We don’t have anything to say that the president knew about it,’ said Camp, who chairs the House committee looking into the IRS controversy, on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’

“McConnell also could not point to evidence of presidential involvement in the IRS’s scrutinizing of conservatives, though the Kentucky senator argued that a need for more information justified emerging investigations into the controversy.”

Obama Learned Of IRS Scandal Through News:

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told Fox News Sunday that President Obama learned of the IRS scandal when he heard it on the news.

“No president would get involved in an independent IRS investigation,” Pfeiffer said. “It would be wholly inappropriate.”

Pfeiffer also pledged that everyone “who did anything wrong will be held accountable…”

Politico reports that on Meet The Press, Pfeiffer also said that Republicans were trying to “make political hay” with the scandal.

“We’ve seen this playbook from the Republicans before,” Pfeiffer said. “What they want to do when they’re lacking a positive agenda is try to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations. We’re not going to let that happen. The president’s got business to do for the American people.”

‘People Deserve The Truth’:

On Face The Nation, Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Obama needs to release more documents on Benghazi.

“People deserve the truth and the families deserve the truth,” Chaffetz said, according to Politico. “I can’t imagine that this administration would say those same things about what happened in Boston where we had four people killed by a terrorist.”

Polls Hold Steady:

CNN trains its political eye on the horse race: Despite the scandals President Obama’s approval rating is holding steady:

“According to the survey, which was conducted Friday and Saturday, 53% of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45% saying they disapprove. The president’s approval rating was at 51% in CNN’s last poll, which was conducted in early April.”

When Did Obama Know?

CBS News’ lead political story reports, “General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS.”

CBS adds:

“The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the investigation until last week.

“It’s the first evidence that someone within the Obama administration knew about the practice during the presidential campaign.”

AP Probe Unconstitutional:

The President and CEO of The Associated Press said on Face the Nation that the Obama administration’s probe of their phone records was “unconstitutional” and has hurt their newsgathering.

The AP reports:

“Gary Pruitt says the Justice Department’s secret subpoena of reporters’ phone records has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists.”

LYON, France (Reuters) – A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his 5-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon. “He offered explanations linked to the children’s custody,” an official from the Lyon prosecutor’s office told Reuters. …

WIPED OUT: Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the embattled socialist government of Venezuela says it will import 50 million rolls of toilet paper to boost supplies.

BOTTOM LINE: Economists say Venezuela’s shortages stem from price controls meant to make basic goods available to the poorest parts of society and government controls on foreign currency.

INTESTINAL FORTITUDE: Last month Venezuela’s scarcity index reached its highest level since 2009, while the 12-month inflation rate has risen to nearly 30 percent. Shoppers often spend days looking for basic items and stock up when they find them.

Given the fanfare with which NBC is closing The Office after nine seasons (at least two too many), you’d think it was a Cheers or Seinfeld-sized hit from the “must-see” glory days, instead of the show that presided over the slow fade of a once-powerful comedy brand on the back of too many same-seeming niche comedies specializing in preciously arch irony. At its best (the Steve Carell and early Jim-Pam years), The Office had heart as well as range, as it found comic magic in its ensemble once the show emerged from the large shadow cast by the classic Ricky Gervais original series. But now it just hits the same beats over and over to lesser effect, which hasn’t stopped NBC from pulling out the stops. The celebration (eulogy?) begins with an hour-long behind-the-scenes retrospective (Thursday, 8/7c) produced by NBC News – which didn’t have more pressing business? – featuring interviews from cast members and producers. The main event is a super-sized finale (9/8c) that has swelled to an hour and 15 minutes, staged as a mock reunion of the Dunder Mifflin gang several months after the airing of the mock documentary that took nearly a decade to finish.

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Also going long: the grand finale of Fox’s American Idol (8/7c), which staggers to the end of a ratings-embattled season with two hours and seven minutes of padding and special musical performances before we learn if Kree or Candice will be crowned the winner. Elsewhere on a night that will test the resolve of many a household’s DVRs, it’s a finale smorgasbord, no doubt to be dominated by Thursday’s biggest hit comedy, CBS’ The Big Bang Theory. Unlikely to top last week’s brilliant DD-themed episode, the sixth-season finale (8/7c) is built around a corny-sounding cliffhanger, with Leonard offered a job overseas, causing Penny and Sheldon varying degrees of panic and resentment.

The drama showdown is between CBS’ two-hour Elementary (9:01/8:01c), in which a shattered Sherlock comes to grips with the apparent return from the dead of soulmate Irene Adler (Natalie Dormer), while the mysterious “manipulation is my business” Moriarty plots more mischief; and ABC’s hot combo of Grey’s Anatomy (9/8c), in which a storm bears down on Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital just in time for Meredith to give birth under what will no doubt be the most perilous of circumstances, followed by the deliciously juicy Scandal (10:02/9:02c), which gave us a great shock last week with the reveal that former veep aide Billy Chambers (Matt Letscher), long presumed dead, is the mole, conspiring with not-so-milquetoast David Rosen (Joshua Malina) to bring down Olivia Co. Is it even possible to take this crazy show to the next level? Here’s hoping.

Last but to cult fans not least among the night’s season finales, The CW’s The Vampire Diaries (8/7c) finally celebrates Graduation Day of the Mostly Undead, with ghosts on the loose in Mystic Falls and Elena once again making a decision about the Salvatore boys while facing her evil doppelganger Katherine. … And on the lamentable Beauty and the Beast (9/8c, The CW), most generously renewed for a second season, Cat learns shocking news about her family’s past, while Vincent (in CW’s words) “finds himself staring his demise in the face.” But which face?

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This college was created in musical comedy land — more specifically, for the 1927 Broadway megahit “Good News!” A happy amalgam of everything that was wrong with musicals of the era — one-note characters, silly plots, dumb songs and meretricious dances — “Good News!” exists only to entertain. And that’s just what it does in Vince Pesce’s first-rate production, the opening offering of Goodspeed Musicals’ 50th-anniversary season in East Haddam.

Retooled by Jeremy Desmon from the original book by Lawrence Schwab, B. G. DeSylva and Frank Mandel, the rah-rah story revolves around Tom Marlow, the star quarterback who won’t be allowed to play in the Big Game unless he passes an astronomy exam. And if he’s smart enough to do that, will he also be smart enough to dump his pretty bimbo of a girlfriend, Pat, in favor of the infatuated, defiantly uncool Connie, whose superior intellect is evident from her eyeglasses and who agrees to tutor him for the Big Test?

You should have no trouble following the astronomy lesson. It begins with the timeless lyric, “The moon belongs to everyone.” Yes, “Good News!” is the show that added “The Best Things in Life Are Free” to the great American songbook, along with “Lucky in Love,” “The Varsity Drag” and the title ditty. When the show was revived — very briefly — on Broadway, in 1974, other tunes by Mr. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson were added to the score, and it now boasts a vintage hit parade: “You’re the Cream in My Coffee,” “Keep Your Sunny Side Up” and “Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.” And Mr. Desmon and Mr. Pesce have dropped in several less familiar tunes as well.

The orchestrations of Dan DeLange give these pop songs a wonderful Jazz Age effervescence, and they are delivered with verve by the cheerful, engaging cast. As Tom, Ross Lekites deploys his wholesome good looks to advantage, conveying the character’s fresh-scrubbed sweetness and easygoing conceit. As the rivals for his heart, Lindsay O’Neil makes a comically obtuse Pat, and Chelsea Morgan Stock is a winningly smitten Connie.

Their comic foils, Tessa Faye as the campus femme fatale and her odd-couple beaus, Barry Shafrin and Myles J. McHale, help keep all the nonsense afloat with their energetic mugging. Ms. Faye is having altogether too much fun as Babe, and at first she seems to be overplaying the hoyden and underplaying the seductress. But as the show continues — the turning point may be her rendition of “I Want to Be Bad” — you come to appreciate just how cleverly subversive her portrayal is.

Playing the putative adults in this adolescent crowd, an astronomy professor and the football coach, Beth Glover and Mark Zimmerman bring a welcome bit of gravitas to the boisterous proceedings; their soft-shoe duet to “You’re the Cream in My Coffee” is a charmer. In fact, all of Mr. Pesce’s dances sparkle, along with the smartly choreographed football sequences. (David Krane provided the dance music.)

Court Watson has designed a multilevel set that allows the Goodspeed Opera House stage to overflow with dancing, top to bottom as well as left to right. Tracy Christensen’s bright costumes and Charlie Morrison’s exuberant lighting heighten the musical’s fast-paced, knockabout spirit. And when the students drop from exhaustion after their high-powered rendition of “The Varsity Drag,” near the close of Act I, it’s not just a comic flourish — the performers have earned that little break.

The arrival of the intermission allows us a little break, too, so we can ponder the weighty questions posed in “Good News!” Will Tom man up and choose the right mate? Will Babe entice the scrawny bench warmer into her arms? Will her hulking, jealous ex find him and beat the living daylights out of him? Will the professor and the coach rekindle the romance that faltered in college? If you don’t already know the answers, perhaps you, too, got your degree at Tait.

“Good News!” adapted by Jeremy Desmon from the book by Lawrence Schwab, B. G. DeSylva and Frank Mandel, with music and lyrics by Mr. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson, is at the Goodspeed Opera House, 6 Main Street, East Haddam, through June 22. Information: (860) 873-8668 or www.goodspeed.org.

GOOGLE THIS: Google’s stock topped $900 as the tech giant unveiled a music streaming service and a new Google Maps. Google’s stock is up 50 percent over the past year.

APPLE: Apple’s stock took a sudden turn lower after reports said that a hedge fund run by the billionaire David Tepper slashed its holdings in the tech company.

FINAL SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 60.44 points to close at 15,275.69, an increase of 0.4 percent. The Standard Poor’s 500 index gained 8.44 points to 1,658.78, up 0.4 percent. Both indexes are at all-time highs.