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As revelations of the NSA's mass surveillance have poured out over the last year, we've all been told that we have to encrypt our communications to keep them safe from prying eyes. The trouble is ...

Sad. There's a word rarely heard in the context of the state's war on Newark's neighborhood public schools. Sad. Yet the story of how a cruelly tone-deaf state bureaucrat named Cami Anderson is ...

Ahead of Thursday's US House vote on a bill sold as reform of a major US government spying program, top technology firms like Google have joined civil liberties and privacy groups in calling the ...

Ever wish you could live at your CSA? Or move to a neighborhood where everyone is as excited about fresh, healthy food as you are?

This is CNN... issuing a correction over a viral, user-posted report that a giant asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and would wipe out life on the planet on March 35, 2041. Now "the most

A rising proportion of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli occupation forces are subjected to solitary confinement, harsh interrogations and ill-treatment amounting to torture, according to a ...

An advanced group of hackers recently attacked a US public utility, compromising its control system network without affecting the utility's operations, according to the US Department of Homeland ...

NEW* Estelle Sommeiller and Mark Price, The Increasingly Unequal States of America , Washington, DC: Economic Analysis and Research Network, February 19, 2014. Analyzing income inequality by state ...

Dozens of Texas communities are feeling the effects of a water shortage that could render them without water within three months, a situation that would not only make residents thirsty but also hurt

Nearly half of unemployed Americans are on the verge of completely giving up on looking for a job, but they remain optimistic they will find a job they really want within the next six months, a new