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In a major foreign policy victory for President Obama, Republicans in the Senate failed to secure enough votes Thursday to derail the Iran nuclear agreement. The Senate voted against clearing the way for a debate […]

Nuclear Deal Victory Secured as Democrats Block Veto AttemptObama: U.S. to Accept 10,000 Syrian Refugees over Next YearU.N. Approves Palestinian Bid to Fly National Flag at HeadquartersBernie Sanders Leading […]

Welcome to the thirty-fifth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Introducing the tor-teachers list
Just as the the Tor network itself grows a […]

Disturbing displays of military and surveillance equipment being used by state and local police have become commonplace. So it’s not hard to imagine why Urban Shield, a four-day long “preparedness” exercise and e […]

Yesterday, EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pushing back against a district court decision that expanded state law copyrights in pre-1972 sound recordings. This […]

FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday that criminals who think they can evade law enforcement using the “dark web” and the Tor Network, which is designed to conceal the Internet addresses of the computers bei […]

EFF welcomes our newest staff member Aaron Mackey to the team. Aaron joins us as a Frank Stanton Legal Fellow (along with current Stanton Fellow Jamie Williams), for a two-year fellowship sponsored by the Stanton […]

The past decade has witnessed a remarkable transformation in the global debate over drug policy. As recently as the mid-2000s, drug legalization or even decriminalization was a fringe idea, something almost no […]

LAST APRIL, at a prison in upstate New York, Kim Ayala met with her therapist about the nightmares that had been disrupting her sleep. A tiny 46-year-old with a gravelly voice and an expansive demeanor, Ayala had […]

The Attorney General’s Office of New Jersey is on a crusade to dismantle the important search and seizure protections afforded to the state’s citizens. As part of the latest assault on individual rights to due pro […]

Warrants Should Be Required to Search Cell Phones, Computers Richmond, Virginia—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to rule that government agents need a warrant to search c […]

The press has become more aggressive about reporting on national security in the post-Snowden world, ranking House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff said Thursday.
Speaking to a convention of government […]

The award-winning film “La Jaula de Oro,” or “The Golden Dream,” directed by Diego Quemada-Díez, tells the story of two Guatemalan kids and one indigenous Tzotzil boy from southern Mexico as they attempt to […]

The University of California has announced that it has sold off more than $200 million worth of investments in coal and tar sands companies. University officials say the move was prompted by concerns over […]

Speaking on Democracy Now! recently, David Simon, a Baltimore resident best known for creating the television series “The Wire,” criticized Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley’s policing policies as […]

In July, presidential candidate Martin O’Malley made headlines by suggesting that the rise of the so-called Islamic State came about in part because of the effects of climate change. “One of the things that p […]

As the European Union has proposed a new plan to resettle 160,000 refugees across the bloc, we speak to Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley about his call to welcome 65,000 Syrian refugees to the U […]

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley is urging supporters to rally next week in front of the Democratic National Committee office to protest the DNC’s debate schedule, which allows for six Dem […]

Historic Rains Flood Japan in Latest Sign of Climate ChangeCalifornia Lawmakers Weaken Climate Bill After Industry PressureUniversity of California Divests $200 Million from Fossil FuelsEuropean Union Proposes […]

Before Jeb! Bush unveiled his tax! plan! on Wednesday, he met in Manhattan with Stephen Moore, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation. Also there were Steve Forbes (whose family owned Forbes Magazine […]