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Photographer Spends 24 Hours In An 'Isolation Cell' Meant For Kids

Photographer Richard Ross has been documenting the lives of kids behind bars for six years, but he recently found out first-hand what it's like to be a kid in solitary.Ross — who's a professor at the...

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Man Caught In Alleged Insider Trading Scheme After SEC Finds Source On Facebook

Bangkok resident Badin Rungruangnavarat raised some red flags with the SEC when he bagged more than $3.2 million on a stake in Smithfield Foods right as the U.S. pork producer announced its $4.7...

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At Least 5 Killed In Santa Monica College Shooting

UPDATE: At least five have been killed, including the gunman, after a mass shooting in Santa Monica, California.EARLIER: Santa Monica College near Los Angeles was reportedly on lockdown Friday after...

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No One Is Talking About The Insane Law That Lets Authorities Read Any Email...

The revelation that the National Security Agency can monitor your every move online shouldn't come as a total shock. A 1986 law lets the Feds read emails that have been stored on a server for at least...

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Dozens Of US Marines Nabbed In Massive SoCal Crime Ring

Seven former Marines and seven active duty Marines are among 50 people arrested thursday in Southern California for reportedly operating a massive crime ring.There were a total of 64 indicted, and 14...

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The Best Stories From The Last 7 Years On The Government’s Growing Surveillance

On Wednesday, the Guardian published documents revealing the government has been collecting months' worth of telephone "metadata" on millions of Verizon customers.The Washington Post and the Guardian...

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'Knight Stalker' Killer Dies Of Liver Failure After 24 Years On Death Row

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Ramirez, the demonic serial killer who left satantic signs at murder scenes and mutilated victims' bodies during a reign of terror in the 1980s, died early Friday in a...

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Obama Faces Hypocrisy Charges At China Summit After Data Mining Revelations

The Sunnylands summit was billed by the White House as an opportunity for Barack Obama to his confront his new Chinese counterpart with a litany of American complaints about hacking and cyber theft.The...

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Texas Actress Charged With Sending Ricin Letters To Obama And Bloomberg

A Texas actress has been arrested for allegedly sending ricin-laced letters to both President Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NBC News reports.According to federal officials, two weeks...

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Same-Sex Partners Of US Troops To Receive Military Benefits In September

Same-sex domestic partners of military servicemembers will soon be issued government-issued identification cards entitling them to a number of benefits, Washington Times reports.An internal personnel...

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Every Company Named In NSA Spying Case Has Now Denied Knowledge Of It

America's tech giants continued to deny any knowledge of a giant government surveillance programme called Prism, even as president Barack Obama confirmed the scheme's existence Friday.In a blogpost...

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Gunman Kills 4 In Horrific Santa Monica Shooting Rampage

Police said that five are dead after a horrific shooting rampage that ended at Santa Monica College, according to the Associated Press.A police spokesman told the AP that a gunman and four victims died...

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Officials: NSA Has Mistakenly Intercepted Phone Calls And Emails Of Innocent...

The National Security Agency (NSA) has on occasion accidentally intercepted the private emails and phone calls of innocent Americans with no links to terrorism, two former U.S. intelligence officials...

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US OFFICIAL: Our Spying Helped Disrupt A Plot To Bomb NYC Subways

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's broad programs to collect U.S. phone records and Internet traffic helped disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subways, a senior U.S. intelligence official...

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Edward Snowden Is A Free Man In Hong Kong — For Now

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Edward Snowden, an American who has leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs and is believed to be in Hong Kong, is technically free to leave the China-ruled city...

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GOP CONGRESSMAN: Reporters Should Be Prosecuted For Publishing Classified...

U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) suggested CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday that reporters should be prosecuted for "willingly" publishing classified information. King's comments came after a slew of...

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Officials Across Asia Suspect NSA Is Intercepting Their Emails

JAKARTA/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Government and security officials in parts of Asia have been sending sensitive information and policy documents via e-mail services offered by U.S. web giants, and concerns...

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Banks Are Making It Way Too Easy For Fraudsters To Target Consumers

The Justice Department is targeting banks across the country that give suspicious merchants access to the financial system, according to a report by Jessica Silver-Greenberg in the New York...

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Joe Scarborough Calls Edward Snowden A 'Weasel,' And Mika Brzezinski Blasts...

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski railed on National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and journalist Glenn Greenwald on Wednesday, coming down on the side of a strange combination of...

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Law Schools Are Turning Our Kids Into Profit Centers

Where can an investor earn a 7.9 percent guaranteed annual rate of return? Not 30-year United States Treasury bonds; they pay around 3 percent. Not other countries’ sovereign debt; some of the most...

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