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Tornadoes Kill 7 in U.S. as Climate Change Fuels Extreme WeatherPentagon Contractors in Iraq Increases Eightfold over Last YearReport Says Israeli Security Agency Is Abusing Palestinian PrisonersActivists Urge […]

GAROUA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, proclaimed the sign on the concrete and glass terminal building. The designation was something of a misnomer, because only three or four planes land each week in this sleepy outpost […]

A court in Bahrain sentenced a prominent opposition leader to one year in jail on Wednesday for the crime of “inciting hatred” — hatred, that is, of the Persian Gulf monarchy’s repressive governm […]

Many Democrats will tell you that there has rarely, if ever, been a more menacing or evil presidential candidate than Donald Trump. “Trump is the most dangerous major candidate for president in memory,” prono […]

MICHAEL HAYDEN, the former director of the CIA and the NSA, has been making the media rounds over the last few days, discussing and defending some of the most emblematic policies of the post-9/11 era in an effort […]

According to new polling by right-wing political consultant Frank Luntz, Americans 18 to 26 are extremely liberal —  so liberal that “the hostility of young Americans to the underpinnings of the American economy […]

We end today’s show remembering Black Lives Matter activist MarShawn McCarrel. On February 8, he shot himself to death at the entrance to the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. MarShawn McCarrel was just 23 y […]

In his third consecutive victory, billionaire businessman Donald Trump has easily won the Nevada caucus. Trump received 46 percent of the vote, winning most key demographic groups. Florida Senator Marco Rubio […]

President Obama has submitted a plan to Congress to close Guantánamo Bay military prison. Despite Obama’s pledge to close the facility as one of his first acts after taking office in 2008, there are still 91 pr […]

Obama Gives Congress Plan to Close GuantánamoTrump Wins Nevada Caucuses, Vows to “Load” Gitmo with “Bad Dudes”Senate Republicans Vow to Reject Any Supreme Court PickU.N. Voices Concern About the “Profiling of […]

EFF, Fight for the Future, and Encryption Supporters Protest Outside the San Francisco Apple Store

Dozens of people gathered at the Apple Store in San Francisco this evening to shout their support for the […]

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton again refused to release transcripts of her paid speeches to big banks, telling a CNN town hall audience Tuesday night that she will only release her transcripts […]

One of Egypt’s leading investigative journalists, Hossam Bahgat, was prevented from boarding a flight to Jordan today when officials at Cairo International Airport informed him that his name had been added to a l […]

SAYING THAT THE PRISON at Guantánamo Bay “undermines our standing in the world,” President Barack Obama today announced a detailed plan to close the facility, 14 years after it was first inaugurated by Preside […]

A number of congressional candidates are making their opposition to the growing surveillance state a part of their primary campaigns.
In Orange County, Calif., Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen is running in the D […]

The news has been flooded with reactions to Apple’s principled stance in defense of user privacy. But even as Apple opposes the FBI’s demands to undermine the security of its operating system, where is President O […]

Twenty years ago, large chunks of the Web went dark. These sites were changing their layout, or in some cases even going offline, to protest the Communications Decency Act, signed on February 8 by President Bill […]

A POLICY PAPER issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory, titled Countering Violent Extremism: Scientific Methods & Strategies, includes a chapter setting forth controversial and unsubstantiated theories of r […]

Apple has objected to or otherwise challenged at least 12 government requests to help extract data from locked iPhones since September, bolstering its argument that its current battle about a terrorist’s phone is […]

On the day the death of Justice Antonin Scalia was announced, Georgetown Law School issued an official statement and press release headlined “Georgetown Law Mourns the Loss of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ant […]