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[Update: After the broadcast an Oklahoma appeals court granted death row prisoner Richard Glossip a last-minute stay. His new execution date is September 30.]
Attorneys for death row prisoner Richard Glossip have […]

OK Set to Execute Richard Glossip amid New Evidence of His InnocenceObama Allocates Additional $250 Million to Fight Uncontrollable Fires16 Die in Flash Flooding in UtahCoalition Demands End to New Fossil Fuel […]

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Roya, David, Nick, nweaver, Vern, and I just finished a research project in which we revisited the Great Firewall of […]

EFF has been selected to receive a portion of CREDO’s revenue in September and you can boost the amount that we receive by voting for us!Until September 30, CREDO customers and action members can visit CREDO’s […]

A federal appeals court sided with EFF yesterday on several of the major questions at issue in the long-running Lenz v. Universal copyright case. Lenz—sometimes referred to as the “Dancing Baby” case because it ce […]

When the Pentagon decided in 2009 to cut funding for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor fighter jet — a weapons system with cost overruns in the billions of dollars that has rarely seen combat — the Heritage Found […]

Federal law enforcement officials decrying the proliferation of strong encryption said Tuesday that the only reason they lack actual examples of how often it shields criminals is that they’ve done a “bad job” […]

THE CLOSER THE STATE of Oklahoma comes to killing Richard Glossip, the more evidence emerges to suggest the state is preparing to murder an innocent man.
On Monday, Glossip’s legal team released dozens of pages o […]

The screaming headline on Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal reads “Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion.” This would comprise “the largest peacetime expansion of government in American history,” […]

The ongoing atrocities by Saudi Arabia and its “coalition partners” in Yemen reflect powerfully — and horribly — on both the U.S. and U.K. That’s true not only because those two countries in general are among the […]

We turn now to an explosive new report that claims the U.S. government has secretly targeted Bolivian President Evo Morales with a drug sting code-named “Operation Naked King.” The report — just released by The H […]

We end today’s show with another story about Evo Morales. In 2013, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange played a pivotal role in helping National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden leave Hong Kong for R […]

Schools are closed in Seattle again today as the city’s first teacher strike in 30 years enters its fifth day. Last week, teachers, represented by the Seattle Education Association, unanimously voted to go on s […]

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday that she would not be seeking re-election in the city’s 2016 mayoral race so that she could focus on governing a city on edge over the trials of six p […]

Hungary Arrests 60 Refugees amid Increasing Border CrackdownCalifornia: 9,000 Firefighters Unable to Control Massive WildfiresStudy: Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Melt Antarctica Ice SheetMajor PR Firm Cuts Ties […]

Are you a computer scientist? A network engineer? Have you developed a new web-based protocol? If so, we want you to sign on to a statement [PDF] explaining to the DC Circuit Court that openness and neutrality […]

Celebrating the First Certificate From Let’s Encrypt 
Today we mark an important milestone in our march to encrypt all of the Web: the first-ever certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt.
Let’s Encrypt is a free, au […]

On Wednesday, September 16, nine months into the 114th Congress, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the federal law that regulates […]

A federal district court judge in New York has fully lifted an 11-year-old gag order that the FBI imposed on Nicholas Merrill, the founder of a small Internet service provider, to prevent him from speaking about a […]

Appeals Court Affirms That Copyright Owners Must Consider Fair Use in Online TakedownsSan Francisco – A federal appeals court in San Francisco today affirmed that copyright holders must consider whether a use of m […]