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In Guatemala, a television comedian has won the first round of the nation’s presidential elections. Sunday’s vote came just days after Guatemala’s President Otto Pérez Molina resigned and was jailed on corrup […]

Thirty years ago, French secret service blew up Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a Portuguese photographer, as the ship was preparing to head to sea to protest against F […]

Germany to Accept 500,000 Refugees Yearly, Calls for EU-Wide ActionFrance & U.K. to Accept More Refugees as Finnish PM Opens Guest HomeHungary & Israel Building New Border Walls to Block RefugeesCzech Republic […]

The California Legislature wants the DMV to start issuing “Enhanced Driver Licenses” (EDL), similar to a REAL ID, that contain an RFID tag that could expose information about you from up to 30 feet away.  
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “Between the World and Me,” has been called “required reading” by Toni Morrison. “I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Cle […]

Today we spend the hour with Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of an explosive new book about white supremacy and being black in America. Titled “Between the World and Me,” it is written as a letter to his teenage son, […]

ON SEPTEMBER 9 it will have been one year since the Nevada Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Kirstin Blaise Lobato, currently in prison for the brutal murder of a homeless man in Las Vegas in 2001. […]

Welcome to the thirty-fourth issue in 2015 of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the Tor community.
Tor Browser 5.0.2 and 5.5a2 are out
The Tor Browser team announced new s […]

As we say goodbye to another summer of computer security conferences, we would like to take a moment to extend our thanks to the countless people who helped bolster the digital freedom movement this year in Las […]

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WO WEEKS AGO, prominent Black Lives Matter activists released Campaign Zero, a 10-point plan to reduce police violence against black Americans. The manifesto demands, among other things, an end to for-profit and […]

EFF has won a battle in its fight to get the government to disclose its policy for deciding whether to tell the public about critical flaws in software when it finds out about them. Last year, we filed suit under […]

BILLIE JO BOYIDDLE will never forget the moment she had to leave the room so that her uncle could be told whether he would be killed by the state.
They were at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on the afternoon of […]

Last Sunday at a campaign event in Iowa, former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley responded to a request from a University of Iowa student and signed a pledge supporting p […]

In Chicago, a group of public school parents, grandmothers and education activists are entering the 19th day of a hunger strike to save Dyett High School, the only remaining open-enrollment public high school left […]

As former Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina is held in jail on corruption charges, investigative journalist Allan Nairn looks at how Pérez Molina could also be charged for his role in the mass killings of i […]

In Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina has been jailed on charges of corruption only hours after he resigned as president, bowing to massive popular protest. We speak to Mayan activist Rigoberta Menchú, who won the N […]

Guatemala: Ex-President Jailed on Corruption ChargesKentucky: Clerk Refusing to Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses JailedSaudi King Meets Obama amid Protests Against Saudi Bombing of YemenGlobal Outcry […]

At long last, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced a slew of much-needed policy changes regarding the use of cell-cite simulators. Most importantly, starting today all federal law enforcement […]

Some Federal Air Marshals were hastily issued old and untested firearms in questionable condition before departing on international missions throughout Europe last weekend, according to sources and a letter […]

It should be no surprise that libraries and bookstores—the places where you can go pick up a copy of 1984 or Darkness at Noon—are privacy hipsters. They’ve been fighting overbroad government surveillance since […]