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California Legislators Pushing Warrant Requirement For All Access To...
Good news from California: a bill requiring warrants for Stingray device usage (among other things) has passed out of a Senate committee and is headed for an assembly vote.Among other sweeping new...
View ArticleRepublicans can’t overturn the FCC’s new net neutrality rules without this...
It's no secret that Republicans want to replace the Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality regulations with legislation. But they need Democrats to do it — and at least one prominent...
View ArticleThe NSA had considered ceasing mass surveillance before Snowden. Officials...
THE US NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) considered dropping its local mass surveillance practices before Edward Snowden made his revelations, but decided that perhaps this was not the best idea.Hindsight...
View ArticleFL Mom of epileptic son caught in Charlotte's Web medical marijuana...
Just as 13-year-old Branden Petro flops into the passenger seat of his mom's car, his eyes roll back. His face twitches uncontrollably. He curls into a fetal position.It is his third seizure on a...
View ArticleWhile Dent was sitting in the back seat of a cruiser, police say they found a...
Floyd Dent never felt pain like he did the night of 28 January.At about 10pm, the Detroit native says he went to visit a blind friend in the neighboring city of Inkster, to deliver a bottle of Rémy...
View ArticleHouse Would Have To Work 5 Days A Week Under Democrat's Proposal
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives may have to start working five-day weeks if a resolution introduced last Thursday passes.The resolution's author, Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.), argues that...
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Five of the six officers face life sentences for their participation in what...
The trial of six former Philadelphia narcotics officers accused of robbing drug dealers in a 42-page indictment that read like a script for a Hollywood action movie is expected to begin in federal...
View ArticleIndiana Shut Down Its Rural Planned Parenthood Clinics And Got An HIV Outbreak
Scott County, Indiana, the center of an exploding HIV outbreak, has been without an HIV testing center since early 2013, when the sole provider -- a Planned Parenthood clinic -- was forced to close its...
View ArticleOhio Girl, 10, Dies in House Fire Hours Before Rape Suspect's Trial Begins
A 10-year-old Ohio girl died in a house fire early Monday just hours before a trial she was set to testify in against her accused rapist was supposed to begin, officials said.Robert Seman Jr., 46, was...
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Texas has the third highest rate of HIV infections in the country, but that...
Texas has the third highest rate of HIV infections in the country, but that didn’t stop lawmakers from passing an amendment that defunds HIV/STD prevention programs Tuesday. The amendment to the House...
View ArticleNew York Lawmakers Carve Out Sales-Tax Exemption for Struggling Yacht Buyers
A version of New York’s state budget includes a major sales-tax exemption on yacht purchases. That means those who pony up for boats over $230,000 would only pay taxes on the first $230,000, regardless...
View ArticleObama pardons 22 convicts in one day, including a man who was sentenced to...
President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 22 individuals on Tuesday, more than doubling the number of commutations he has issued in the six-plus years he's been in office.The men and women...
View ArticleCop who berated Uber driver is stripped of badge and gun
The NYPD detective who was caught on video chewing out an Uber driver has been stripped of his shield and gun, and will be placed on modified duty, Police officials said.Detective Patrick Cherry has...
View ArticleHouse Members Target Patriot Act with "Surveillance State Repeal Act"
U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (D-Wis., photo on left) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who are seeking to repeal the PATRIOT Act in its entirety and combat any legal provisions that amount to American...
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It Is Now Illegal To Discriminate Against Atheists In Madison, Wisconsin
On Tuesday, the city of Madison, Wisconsin announced that it is now against the law to discriminate against atheists, making it the first city in the country to grant explicit legal protection to...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Can't Account for $45 Billion It Spent in Afghanistan
The Department of Defense has spent $66 billion since 2002 rebuilding Afghanistan. But amazingly, it can't account for $45 billion of that money. That's billion with a B.The auditing office in charge...
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