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Day: August 13, 2013
By Natasha Lennard With a landmark decision in a historic trial, federal judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices…
Michael Snyder Activist Post Have you ever seen the movie Idiocracy? It is a movie about an “average American” that…
The former head of the National Security Agency said Sunday that not only does ending the NSA’s domestic surveillance programs…
US fugitive Edward Snowden’s defense fund, launched recently by WikiLeaks to raise money for the legal protection of the NSA…
The Pirate Bay has released a self-configured browser package, which allows users to skate around the anti-piracy censorship of certain…
The near-death experience reported by cardiac arrest survivors worldwide may be grounded in science, according to research at the University…
By Steve Hargreaves Serial entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk is set to unveil design plans for the Hyperloop Monday –…
US prisons are operating at 40 percent above capacity, with half of all inmates locked up for drug-related crimes. Attorney…
Ten workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant were exposed to radiation from contaminated mist, TEPCO says. Workers in…
A mysterious surge of brain activity observed in dying rats may explain reports of near-death-experiences (NDEs), researchers claim. Even after…
A Georgia teenager in dire need of a new heart was denied a transplant after doctors determined that his history…
By JOHN SCHWARTZ Officials were trying to determine the extent of the damage after a building in a resort community…
techdirt.com The use of Web blocks — usually “for the children” — is becoming depressingly common these days. So much…
By Aaron Blake North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) on Monday signed into law one of the nation’s most wide-ranging…