• Police Allowed to Place GPS Tracking on Vehicles – Without a Warrant

  

  Aug 27, 2010 15:38

  A new ruling has given police the right to place GPS tracking on vehicles to track movements, without a warrant. The ruling...

   

• USA Submits Human Rights Record

  

  Aug 24, 2010 7:17

  “Submitted to the Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights last week but made public yesterday, in accordance...

   

• Michael Jackson’s Doctor Due in Court

  

  Aug 23, 2010 10:20

  The doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death is due back in court for a scheduling hearing that will determine when...

   

• Pharma using Facebook to find human guinea pigs

  

  Jun 28, 2010 19:01

  FORTUNE — Let’s say you’re one of the millions of Facebook users who logs into the site for a minute to...

   

• 3 Men Arrested in Connection with Times Square bomb

  Three Pakistani men said to have supplied funds to Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested in a series...

   

• Obama vs. the iPad

  President Obama’s disdain for new media has become so consistent that it is hard to dismiss as mere posturing. This is...

   

• Chomsky: How the Tea Partiers Are Getting Screwed by Their Own Ideology

  

  May 13, 2010 8:17

  By Noam Chomsky On Feb. 18, Joe Stack, a 53-year-old computer engineer, crashed his small plane into a building in Austin,...

   

• US teacher sacked after being filmed beating student

  Sherri Davis, a science teacher at Jamie’s House Charter School in Houston, backed 13-year-old Isaiah Johnson into...

   

• Obama: Afghan War Will Worsen Before It Improves

  AP The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday, but he declared...

   

• NYC bomb threat a classic homegrown

  AP The suspected driver in a failed car bombing of Times Square fits the profile of a recent wave of “homegrown” terrorists...

   

• Obama: Say Yes to Afghan Peace Talks

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in Washington this week, where he’ll be meeting with President Obama on Wednesday....

   

• China, US to renew human rights talks

  BEIJING (AP) — This week’s resumption of U.S.-China human rights talks after two years will spotlight what critics...

   

• Kagan helped shield Saudis from 9/11 lawsuits

  By John Byrne Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, helped protect the Saudi royal...

   

• Laptop seach and seize will continue at US borders

  Cliff Saran The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the US has amended its policy to seize any electronic device brought...

   

• Lawyers: Ban Bush from Canada for war crimes

  Canwest News Service A lawyers’ group has asked the RCMP to bar former U.S. president George W. Bush from entering Canada,...

   

• Obama Approves Torture Team

  The White House has confirmed that U.S. President Barack Obama has approved the creation of an elite team of interrogators...

   

• Big Brother in the electronic age

  WE’RE a big country so I guess it’s understandable that not only is Big Brother watching — but now it’s...

   

• U.S. carrying out “targeted killings”

  Media reports recently exposed efforts by the Bush administration to create a CIA “assassination squad” so secret...

   

• Bush, Cheney knew they were violating law

  Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good...

   

• Obama on slavery

  President Obama slowly walked across the grounds of Cape Coast Castle, a slave outpost in Ghana where hundreds of thousands...

   

• Probe Into Bush Policies Urged

  President Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies...

   

• Cheney ‘ordered CIA to hide plan’

  Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US...

   

• Officials Claim Wiretaps Were of Limited Value

  While the Bush administration had defended its program of wiretapping without warrants as a vital tool that saved lives,...

   

• USA license plate cameras

  Welcome to Tiburon. Click. Your presence has been noted. The posh and picturesque town that juts into San Francisco Bay is...

   

• Secret Program Fuels CIA-Congress Dispute

  Four months after he was sworn in, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta learned of an intelligence program that had been hidden from...