Guantánamo Prisoners Singing Akon's 'Locked Up' While Being Force Fed Is...
The hunger strike among prisoners, and consequent force-feeding of them, at Guantánamo Bay detention facility has grown to involve 104 of the 166 prisoners as of Saturday, Ben Fox of The Associated...
View ArticleFacebook And Microsoft Finally Allowed To Disprove 'Hyperbolic And False'...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook and Microsoft have struck agreements with the U.S. government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, a modest victory...
View ArticlePORTRAIT OF THE LEAKER AS A YOUNG MAN: Edward Snowden Has Always Been A...
Raised in the NSA's shadow, a life of disillusionment, a decision to leak secrets...FORT MEADE, Maryland (AP) — In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and the U.S. capital, residents...
View ArticleFlight From Egypt To New York Diverted To Scotland After Suspicious Note Found
An Egypt Air plane from Cairo to New York has landed in Scotland after BBC producer Nada Tawfik found a note in the plane's toilet with the words "I'll set this plane on fire" and a seat number, BBC...
View ArticleThe Best Explanation Yet Of How The NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program Works
The Associated Press has published a detailed report about how the NSA's PRISM program — established to acquire data from tech giants including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — is a small part...
View ArticleThis Is The Best Drug War Infographic We've Ever Seen
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View Article8th Grader Arrested Over NRA T-Shirt Argument Now Faces A Year in Jail
The West Virginia eight-grader arrested and suspended over his National Rifle Association T-shirt with an image of a firearm is now facing a $500 fine and a year in jail.A judge is allowing prosecutors...
View ArticleThe Life Of A Former Intern After Suing His Boss
What happens to the unpaid intern who sues his former employer?The Atlantic Wire talked with the plaintiffs, Eric Glatt and Alex Footman, who just had a judge validate their claim that Fox Searchlight...
View ArticleCelebrity Chef Nigella Lawson Was Reportedly Assaulted By Her Husband At A...
Nigella Lawson was apparently assaulted by her husband Charles Saatchi during a row at a restaurant during which he grabbed her by the throat.In photographs published in a Sunday newspaper, the...
View ArticleCBS' Bob Schieffer Destroys Edward Snowden In 90 Seconds
CBS anchor Bob Schieffer on Sunday ripped Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency's surveillance methods.Amid...
View ArticleHow A Michigan City Became The Most Dangerous Place In America
We've been ranking America's most dangerous cities for several years, and there's one city that keeps making the top of the list — Flint, Michigan.Flint had 66 homicides in 2012, tying a record it hit...
View ArticleLINDSEY GRAHAM: Republicans Are In A 'Demographic Death Spiral,' And We Need...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is bullish about the chances of an immigration reform bill passing the Senate — and he says Republicans need to pass it to avoid falling further into a "demographic death...
View ArticleIntelligence Chief Shoots Down Report That NSA Analysts Can Listen To Phone...
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unusual statement late Sunday evening pushing back on a challenged report that claimed the National Security Agency had admitted it could...
View ArticleTeenage Girl Beheads Father Following A Violent Rape
A teenage girl beheaded her father with a bush knife after he raped her at their home in Papua New Guinea, a report said Monday, with community leaders protecting her, saying the man deserved to...
View ArticleCanada Mayor Crisis Spreads: Montreal Mayor In Custody
There's no crack video and it didn't take a flotilla of 50 police vehicles, but this morning Quebec provincial police arrested Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum, according to several Canadian news...
View ArticleThe NSA's PRISM Program Is Shockingly Uncontroversial With The American Public
President Barack Obama's approval rating is sinking like a stone in a new CNN/ORC poll — but it's not because of Americans' reactions to the National Security Agency surveillance program known as...
View ArticleThe Leadership Trait That Barack Obama and Dick Cheney Share
How is it that President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney, who appeared on Fox News Sunday defending the NSA's vast surveillance program, find themselves on the same side of so many highly...
View ArticleBillionaire Ron Perelman Accused Of Spending Daughter's Inheritance To Sue...
UPPER EAST SIDE — Billionaire Ron Perelman is so hellbent on exacting revenge against his former in-laws that he has burned through his daughter's $68 million inheritance to mount a slew of...
View ArticleSNOWDEN: The Truth Is Coming, And The Government Can't Stop It By Murdering Me
Avoiding a specific question on the scope of documents he obtained about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggested Monday that he believes the...
View ArticleClarence Thomas Briefly Becomes A Liberal Hero, Making It Harder For A Judge...
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sided with liberal justices Monday to rule that judges can't issue findings that raise mandatory minimum sentences. Instead, a jury has to make those...
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