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"British medieval ordinances of Bristol cobblers in 1364 state, 'Masters are forbidden to poach workers from other members of the craft.'" Back in January, I wrote about " The Techtopus" - an ...

Raising the minimum wage is a hot topic all across the country. Here's a ton of facts, all loaded into one really pretty set of graphics. Some are even animated! I cover this topic all the time, and

NSA whistleblower Russ Tice describes his evolution from being a staunch believer in the mission of the NSA to being the first insider to expose how the surveillance state disregarded Americans' ...

"Ballot" is not originally an English word: It comes from the Venetian word , or "little ball." For centuries, councils elected the Doge of Venice, who ruled the city-state, with small silver and ...

A private equity company run by fervent supporters of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney bought the third-largest voting machine company in the country last July, raising concerns about the

S A commercial barge dumped close to 168,000 gallons of oil into a Texas bay after one of its tanks ruptured Saturday. The ship was towed to a safe area and Coast Guard officials say the leak is ...

News Inside the NSA's Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators Across the world, people who work as system administrators keep computer networks in order - and this has turned them into

Several concession workers at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport and some of their supporters were arrested March 13 while protesting for a pay hike on the steps of the Maryland State House in Annapolis

Westboro Baptist Church members were met with a notable counter-protest at their first protest since the group's founder died: a sign that read "sorry for your loss." Counter-protesters held up the

The voice interception program, called MYSTIC, began in 2009. Its RETRO tool, short for "retrospective retrieval," and related projects reached full capacity against the first target nation in 2011