Bradley Manning Looks Downright Ghostly
An image of Bradley Manning arriving for day two of his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday prompted Reuters executive editor Jim Roberts to ask this question:Is Bradley #Manning getting...
View ArticleSoccer Mom From Fancy Suburb Charged In Multimillion-Dollar Pot Bust
A soccer mom and budding equestrian from wealthy Scarsdale, N.Y. has been charged with running a massive pot operation from a Queens warehouse.Andrea Sanderlin, 45, was taken in by DEA agents two weeks...
View ArticleCleveland Kidnapping Victims Might Get Free College And $25,000 A Year
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A lawmaker wants the state to provide years of relief payments and a free ride to college for three Cleveland women abducted and held in captivity for about a decade.State Rep....
View ArticleTexas Judge Allegedly Said Blacks And Hispanics Commit More 'Heinous' Crimes
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A coalition of civil rights organizations filed a judicial misconduct complaint Tuesday against a conservative federal judge for comments she allegedly made during a speech that...
View ArticleBrooklyn Couple Who Hosted Self-Help Radio Show Commit Double Suicide
A Brooklyn couple who hosted a monthly "self-help" show on public radio killed themselves in their Park Slope apartment, The New York Daily News reports.Lynne Rosen, 46, and John Littig, 48, reportedly...
View ArticleOne Person Reported Dead After Building Collapses In Philadelphia
A building collapse in Center City of Philadelphia at 22nd and Market Streets is believed to have killed one person, NBC 10 Philadelphia is reporting.Thirteen people were injured in the collapse, which...
View ArticleIowa City Is About To Take An Unprecedented Stand Against Government...
Iowa City is about to pass the country's first municipal bill that simultaneously bans local use of drones, license plate readers, and red-light cameras, Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica reports.The...
View ArticleREVEALED: NSA Is Collecting Phone Records Of Millions Of Americans Daily
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in...
View ArticleThe Same Federal Judge Who Struck Down Obamacare Approved The Government's...
Roger Vinson, the same federal judge who ruled the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional in 2011, signed an order that compels Verizon to give the National Security Agency information on all telephone...
View ArticleMicrosoft And The FBI Are Teaming Up To Take Down A Global Cyber Crime Ring
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and the FBI, aided by authorities in more than 80 countries, have launched a major assault on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings, believed to have stolen...
View ArticleAmerican Teacher At Elite School In China Accused Of Sexually Abusing Students
An American teacher at an elite French school in Shanghai has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least seven children, school officials and parents told AFP on Thursday.The news comes...
View ArticleDomestic Spying Revelation Could Be Devastating For The Obama White House
The Obama administration will be bracing itself for a torrent of hostile questions this morning following the apparent revelation that the National Security Agency has been data-mining the phone...
View ArticleThank You, Unknown Patriot, For Exposing The Spying On Verizon Customers
The federal government forced Verizon to turn over information on the phone calls of millions of innocent Americans and forbade them from telling anybody about it, The Guardianreports.Kudos to Glenn...
View ArticleObama Administration Defends Taking All Your Phone Records
In its first semi-official comment from the White House about The Guardian's Verizon/NSA phone-snooping scoop, the administration didn't admit to collecting the telephone records of millions of...
View ArticleA Man Attempted To Kill Himself Outside The 'Today' Show This Morning
As a crowd gathered outside of Rockefeller Plaza this morning to watch the "Today" show a tried to kill himself by slashing his wrists, the New York Daily News reports.Security tackled the man, who was...
View ArticlePot Activist Risking Life In Jail Says He's A Victim Of FBI Persecution
Rich Paul has become a martyr for the legal marijuana movement, risking a life in prison rather than accept that something he loves should be a crime.As Harry Cheadle of Vice reported earlier, the New...
View ArticleRenter Walks Off With $800,000 Legal Victory Over A Bed Bug Infestation
A 69-year-old Maryland woman who claims that she was driven from her apartment by bedbugs is celebrating a big legal victory.After renting an apartment in September 2011, Falka Shaaban says that she...
View Article'Bag Men' Sue New York Post For Falsely Portraying Them As Boston Bombing...
The two men featured prominently on the cover of the New York Post shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings are suing the paper for falsely portraying them as suspects.The lawsuit accuses the Post of...
View ArticleAmerica Needs To Stop Treating Kids Like Criminals
A Missouri teenager was recently arrested for defacing a yearbook.Before that, an honor student was charged with two felonies for doing a science experiment, and a 7-year-old got suspended over a...
View ArticleDemocratic Senator Defends Phone Spying, And Says It's Been Going On For 7 Years
Senators on both sides of the political aisle moved to defend the National Security Agency's collection of data from millions of Americans' phone records, saying it has been an ongoing practice that...
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