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As voters head to the polls in four states today, with Michigan seen as the top prize, the ongoing Flint water crisis has become a major campaign issue for Democrats. The crisis began when an unelected emergency […]

Pentagon: U.S. Strikes in Somalia Kill 150 PeopleObama Admin Vows to Release Data on Drone KillingsTunisia: 54 Killed in “Unprecedented” Attack Near Libyan BorderVoters Head to Polls in 4 States, Michigan Seen as […]

At 9:04am GMT today, the Let’s Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. This is an amazing success, coming only 3 months and 5 days since a beta version of the service became publicly […]

AFTER YEARS OF INTENSE SECRECY, the Obama administration on Monday announced that it will for the first time acknowledge the number of people it has killed in drone strikes outside of conventional war zones, […]

Senator Mark Warner and Representative Mike McCaul are calling on Congress to create an “Encryption Commission” composed of business, tech, and law enforcement and intelligence agency leaders that will investigate […]

After months of student protests, Harvard Law School could soon stop using its official symbol, a shield based on the crest of an 18th-century slaveholder whose donation paid for the first professorship of law a […]

Today, Verizon reached an agreement with the
FCC to acquire affirmative consent
before injecting their UIDH tracking header into their customers’ web activity on non-Verizon owned sites. This
is exactly what we […]

Following our previous articles about increasing political censorship of the Internet in Malaysia, things have quickly gone from bad to worse. In fact since July 2015, the Malaysian government has blocked at least […]

WHEN FRACKING BILLIONAIRE Aubrey McClendon died after crashing his Chevy Tahoe into a bridge last week, the federal investigation into his alleged bid-rigging came to an end. At his memorial in Oklahoma City […]

The race for the Democratic nomination intensified this weekend as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton at caucuses in Maine, Kansas and Nebraska, while Clinton easily won in Louisiana. So far […]

The Democratic candidates for president faced off Sunday night in Flint, Michigan, which has been in the national spotlight over the poisoning of the city’s water. The crisis began in 2014, when an unelected e […]

The race for the Democratic nomination intensified this weekend as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton at caucuses in Maine, Kansas and Nebraska, while Clinton easily won in Louisiana. On Sunday […]

Sanders Wins 3 of 4 States in Weekend Contests; Clinton Still Has More DelegatesTed Cruz Wins Kansas, Maine; Trump Takes Louisiana, KentuckyTrump Vows to Broaden Laws on TortureTurkish Authorities Seize Zaman, […]

AS A WRITER who has covered Silvio Berlusconi since he became Italy’s prime minister in 1994, it has been difficult not to be overcome with a powerful sense of déjà vu all over again watching the presidential cam […]

IN AN EARLY SCENE from the HBO documentary Homegrown, an FBI agent describes his angst while tracking a teenager’s engagement in the online jihadi world. “You almost want to pick up the phone and say, ‘Son, do […]

SECRECY IN THE WAR on terror has proved rich ground for artists. Many have exploited the theme of surveillance, tracing data trails and security cameras, alerting us to our own complicity in watching and being […]

The leader of a student protest movement in India, who spent the last three weeks in jail, wanted to make one thing perfectly clear when he was released on bail Thursday night in New Delhi. When he called for […]

“You’ve got to start shutting down the mosques that are … practicing sedition,” warned British politician Paul Weston during a session at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washingto […]

IN TWO DEPOSITIONS taken over the last three months, Donald Trump acknowledged under oath that he had no role in selecting Trump University’s instructors, despite claiming in a promotional video that they “a […]

The imminent release of a Hollywood movie based on the life of Nina Simone, the iconic black pianist, singer, and civil rights activist, has reignited a debate over the casting of Zoe Saldana, an actress of […]