A bi-partisan group of senators is hoping to solve one of the most pressing problems facing the booming multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry: Banks still shun legal cannabis businesses.
The United States already has by far the per capita largest prison population of any developed country but I am probably one of the few Americans who on this Independence Day would like to see a lot more people in prison, mostly drawn from politician
The public war of words over Americans' right to encrypt their communications and transactions will resume July 8 when the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing featuring the federal government's most outspoken opponent of public encryption:
Residents and elected officials of El Paso, Texas are calling on their government to hurry up and join the other enlightened US states in decriminalizing marijuana.
Testifying before two Senate committees on Wednesday about the threat he says strong encryption presents to law enforcement, FBI Director James Comey didn't so much propose a solution as wish for one.
The FBI and Department of Justice on Wednesday targeted a new set of threats to national security and law enforcement: not ISIS, or pedophiles, but Apple and Google.
Hacking Team, the surveillance company notorious for helping repressive governments spy on their own citizens, partnered with Cyberpoint International, a U.S. defense contractor, to sell spyware to the United Arab Emirates, according to documents rev
WikiLeaks on Wednesday published a new list of German phone numbers it claims showed the U.S. National Security Agency targeted phones belonging to Chancellor Angela Merkel's close aides and chancellery offices for surveillance.
Jade Helm 15, the controversial Special Operations exercise that spawned a wave of conspiracy theories about a government takeover, will open next week without any media allowed to observe it, a military spokesman said.
Every five years, the US Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) convene a 15-member panel to update the nation's dietary guidelines.
Seltzer, a professor in computer science at Harvard University, told attendees, "Privacy as we knew it in the past is no longer feasible… How we conventionally think of privacy is dead."
Whenever I end up on a flight that offers internet service, I can't help but buy it. Despite being in relatively early stages and a fairly poor state, in-flight Wi-Fi is one of the most "futuristic" technologies I interact with on a regular bas
These words (which I picked up from Abraham Joshua Heschel) are true, even if it doesn't seem like it. Humanity may be blind – willingly blind – for sickening lengths of time, but mankind is not always blind.
"The bill, called the Responsible Body Armor Possession Act, would strip the right of civilians to purchase or own body armor. The bill reads, "It shall be unlawful for a person to purchase, own or possess enhanced body."....
It is stated by the government that "Jade Helm" is just a 'Military Training Exercise' taking place in 7 southwest states (possibly more) for just 2 months from 7/15/15 to 9/15/15.
In my previous post on the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's gay marriage decision, I noted that U.S. Progressives are taking their victory laps, and I suspect that before they are done, those laps are going to morph into a marathon.
Alan Gross was locked up by the Castro regime for half a decade. When he got out, no one in the U.S. government bothered to debrief him about his time in captivity.
• http://www.thedailybeast.com, By Robert Faturechi
Four U.S. embassies got upgraded screening rooms last year, paid for by the lobbying arm of the big studios. The industry and the government say there were no strings attached.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reports:
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is asking Burning Man organizers to build a separate compound with amenities such as flushing toilets, washers and dryers, and 24-hour access to ice cream for government officials
Fallout from the cyberattack on the US Office of Personnel Management is already starting: Federal background checks have been shut down for six to eight weeks as a "proactive" security measure.