Why Irvine, California Consistently Ranks As The Safest City In America
Irvine, Calif. has the lowest violent crime rate among American cities with more than 100,000 people for the 9th year in a row. The city of 223,000 residents reported 110 violent crimes to the FBIlast...
View ArticleStudent Jailed 5 Days Without Food Or Water Awarded $4.1 Million Settlement...
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A California university student who was left handcuffed in a federal holding cell for nearly 5 days without food or water has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the U.S. Drug...
View ArticleCBO: Obamacare Delay Will Cost $12 Billion And Leave An Extra One Million...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's decision to delay implementation of part of his healthcare reform law will cost $12 billion and leave a million fewer Americans with employer-sponsored...
View ArticleNew York City High School Dean Allegedly Had Sex With 4 Students
HELL'S KITCHEN — A staffer at a Manhattan high school has left his post after admitting to having sex with four female students, one as young as 16, inside classrooms, motels and his car. Malik Taylor,...
View ArticleJULIAN ASSANGE: Bradley Manning Verdict Is 'National Security Extremism'
LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused President Barack Obama of "national security extremism" on Tuesday after an American military judge convicted Bradley Manning over the...
View ArticleSan Diego Sues Its Own Mayor In Sex Harassment Case
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The city of San Diego sued its own embattled mayor on Tuesday, seeking to recover from him any damages it might face in a lawsuit filed by his former press secretary, one of seven...
View ArticleTwo Ex-Apple Workers Are Suing Over Daily Bag Searches During Breaks
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two former Apple Inc employees have accused the iPhone maker in a lawsuit of subjecting hourly store workers to daily searches while they were off-the-clock, arguing they...
View ArticleCollege Student Left In Windowless DEA Cell For Four Days Reaches $4 Million...
U.S. to pay $4 million to San Diego student abandoned in cell for 4 days without food, waterSAN DIEGO (AP) — A 25-year-old college student has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the federal...
View ArticleAbandoned US College Student Drank Own Urine, Hallucinated, 'Screamed' Over...
A 25-year-old college student who has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the US government after he was abandoned in a windowless cell for more than four days without food or water, has described...
View ArticleMajor Cannes Award Winner Sued For Copyright Infringement [THE BRIEF]
Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:JWT Puerto Rico has been served with a copyright lawsuit over an ad for Banco Popular that won many awards at last year's Cannes Lions festival,...
View ArticleDocument Reveals How The Obama Administration Collects Millions Of Americans'...
The Obama administration has declassified the secret "primary order" it has used to direct Verizon to for over large quantities of Americans' phone metadata. Ahead of a Senate hearing Wednesday morning...
View ArticleFlorida Teenager Becomes The Youngest UK Lawyer In History
American student Gabrielle Turnquest was called to the Bar of England and Wales after passing her exams at just 18.The average lawyer undertakes the Bar Professional Training Course when they are...
View ArticleNew NSA Leaks Show How Easily The Government Can See Almost Everything You Do...
National Security Agency documents provided to The Guardian by Edward Snowden reveal a system that, as of 2008, allowed analysts to search "nearly everything a typical user does on the internet,"...
View ArticleJK Rowling Settles Legal Fight Against Lawyer Who Outed Her
Author J.K. Rowling accepted an apology and a charitable donation Wednesday from a law firm which revealed she wrote a crime novel under a pseudonym.The "Harry Potter" author was exposed by a newspaper...
View ArticleZynga Says You're Not Allowed To Bang 'With Friends,' Sues Sex App But...
Zynga is suing the makers of Bang with Friends, an app that makes it easy to turn Facebook friends into flings. That's news to Bang With Friends' founders, who say they never received a service letter...
View ArticleHere's The Credit Error That Led A Woman To Win $18.6 Million Against Equifax
A federal jury recently awarded an Oregon woman $18.6 million over Equifax because of errors on her credit report. Her issue: she had a credit file that was mixed with that of another woman, who...
View ArticleNSA Analysts Can Start Spying On You Without Any Court Or Senior Approval
National Security Agency Analysts don't need a court order to listen in on your communications.Previously, we reported that the authority is granted to NSA analysts when a FISA court judges signs a...
View ArticleVan Bursts Into Flames By Flatiron Building In New York City
There are multiple reports of a white van on fire near the Flatiron building in New York City this morning.The blaze has since been extinguished and traffic is moving again around Madison Square Park,...
View ArticleFederal Court Says Phone Location Records Aren't Protected By The Constitution
A federal appeals court has ruled that authorities don't need a search warrant to access your phone's location records.According to AP's Juan Lozano, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that...
View ArticleNSA's 'Widest-Reaching' System Could Read Facebook Chats And Private Messages
Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian has published a massive report detailing a NSA program called XKeyscore that is the spy agency's "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the Internet,...
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