Why These 2 Justices Could Be The Swing Votes On Gay Marriage This Week
The Supreme Court will decide two long-awaited gay marriage cases on Wednesday, and nobody knows for sure how Chief Justice John Roberts or Justice Anthony Kennedy will vote.Kennedy, for one, has...
View ArticleUS Regulator Warns Google And Others To Better Distinguish Advertising From...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators warned leading Internet firms including Google Inc. to better identify paid ads in search results, particularly as new technology such as mobile...
View ArticleThe Texas State Senate Has Devolved Into Parliamentary Chaos Over Abortion
As of 10:52 PM central time, over 100,000 people are watching the live proceedings of the Texas State Senate. Check out the stream below to see why:Today is the last day of a special session where the...
View ArticleOBAMA ON SNOWDEN: 'I'm Not Going To Be Scrambling Jets To Get A 29-Year-Old...
President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he wouldn't be scrambling military jets to secure the capture of National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden, saying he wouldn't participate in...
View ArticleEuropean Police Demolish Georgian Gang With Arrest Blitz
On 18 June, police in six European countries carried out coordinated operations, arresting 18 alleged members of the Georgian organized crime group known as the Kutaisi clan. Coordinated by the Italian...
View ArticleNO WAY OUT: Snowden's Escape Options Are Dwindling
Assuming National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is still actually in the "transit zone" of the Moscow airport, as the Russian government says he is, his options for escaping appear to be...
View ArticleThis Photo Perfectly Captures The Celebration In The West Village After DOMA...
A huge crowd gathered near the Stonewall Inn in the West Village yesterday after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that deprived gay couples federal marriage...
View ArticleHow The CIA Aided The NYPD's Surveillance Program
In the years after the attacks on September 11th, 2001, the NYPD had at least four "embedded" CIA officers in their midst. And because at least one of the officers was on unpaid leave at the time, the...
View ArticleProsecutors Detail How NFL Star Aaron Hernandez Allegedly 'Orchestrated The...
Aaron Hernandez was arrested, cut by the Patriots, and charged with murder in the death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd yesterday.At his arraignment, prosecutor William McCauley gave a 25-minute, detailed...
View ArticleThe Prosecution's Star Witness In The George Zimmerman Trial Is Crumbling On...
George Zimmerman's defense team is not wasting any time in making the prosecution's star witness seem completely unreliable.During the second day of 19-year-old Rachel Jeantel's testimony in the...
View ArticleHow Edward Snowden May Have Botched Blowing The Whistle On The World's...
Initially Snowden served as a legitimate whistleblower — he published the first concrete evidence of the NSA's domestic surveillance apparatus, corroborating claims made by previous whistleblowers and...
View ArticleGay Rights Groups Thought Going To The Supreme Court On Prop 8 Would Be A...
The Supreme Court's decision not to revive California's gay marriage ban is being hailed as a victory for gay couples in the state. It's hard to believe that just three years ago prominent gay rights...
View ArticleNSA Collected US Email Records In Bulk For More Than Two Years Under Obama
The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to...
View ArticleBoston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Has Been Indicted
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old Chechen man suspected of helping his older brother orchestrate and carry out the Boston Marathon bombings, has been indicted on 30 counts including using weapons of...
View ArticleHere's What The Boston Bombing Suspect Allegedly Wrote Inside A Boat Before...
An indictment has been handed down against 19-year-old Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.The documents contain details about what Tsarnaev allegedly scribbled on the inside of a boat before...
View ArticleINDICTMENT: Boston Bombing Suspect Ran Over His Brother While A Cop Was...
An indictment against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev details what happened when he ran over his own brother and briefly evaded capture after allegedly bombing the Boston Marathon in April.Tamerlan, 26, and his...
View ArticleChinese Tourist Finds And Returns A Bag Of Diamonds Worth $32 Million
Chinese tourist and jewelry enthusiast Fu Zhuli made a surprising find during her visit to Hong Kong's Jewelry & Gem Fair: a forgotten bag of diamonds worth a cool $32 million (HK$250 million). “I...
View ArticleVideo Shows Blitzkrieg Bust Of Ukrainian Gangster Crew
This video shows what appears to be a criminal crew (or just some folks doing their best Sopranos impression) approaching their vehicles, possibly following a meeting.Just as they're about to mount up,...
View ArticleThese Extremist Publications Were Found On Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar...
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded and read radical literature that glorified jihad before the Boston bombings, according to a 74-page indictment that was handed down Thursday.We already knew that Tsarnaev...
View ArticleLatest Glenn Greenwald Scoop Vindicates One Of The Original NSA Whistleblowers
William Binney— one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in National Security Agency (NSA) history — worked for America's premier covert intelligence gathering organization for 32 years before...
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