US Army Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency -- Mark Wilson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Most Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support telephone and Internet surveillance by the National Security Administration, but two-thirds also favor congressional hearings on the subject -- indicating broad interest in more information about these activities.
 
The public by 58-39 percent supports the NSA collecting “extensive records of phone calls, as well as Internet data related to specific investigations, to try to identify possible terrorist threats.”

Support for the program is far higher among...

Michael DeHoog/Sports Imagery/ Getty Images(NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass.) -- Investigators searched the North Attleborough home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday following the killing of a man police call an "associate" of Hernandez, ABC News has learned.

Massachusetts State Police and prosecutors arrived at Hernandez's $1.3 million, 5,600-square-foot home, which is outfitted with a home gym and a swimming pool, just before 5 p.m. and spent hours with him inside the mansion.

Two Hernandez friends tried to leave house at the time of the search, but they were stopped by...

Joe Burbank - Pool/Getty Images(SANFORD, Fla.) -- The jury selection process in the George Zimmerman murder trial will move on to round two on Wednesday, as the prosecution and defense look to whittle down a pool of potential jurors into a final list of jurors and alternates.

A jury is expected to be seated as early as Wednesday, but the process could go through Thursday.

The prosecution and the defense team Tuesday agreed on a pool of 40 potential jurors that included 16 men and 24 women. It took both sides seven days...

Facebook.com/JohnMayer; ABC/Lou RoccoJohn Mayer's new single "Paper Doll" was released on Tuesday, and immediately, speculation began that the song was John's response to Taylor Swift's alleged song about him, "Dear John."  Why?  Let's look at the evidence.

First of all, people are pointing to the line in "Paper Doll" where John sings "Here's a dress of gold and blue/sure was fun being good to you."  This is significant, they say, because in "Dear John," Taylor referred to herself as "the girl in the dress."

Next, in the chorus, John sings, "You're like...

Comstock/ThinkstockWhat is Keith Urban's middle name? Lionel.

Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio

Burke/Triolo Productions/ThinkstockLittle Big Town performs "Your Side of the Bed" on ABC's The View Wednesday.

Hunter Hayes, Kacey Musgraves and Lauren Alaina are among the artists who made the cut on Seventeen magazine's new Hottest Country Singers! list at Seventeen.com.

Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio