Utah Ordered to Recognize More Than 1,000 Same-Sex Marriages
A federal judge on Monday ordered Utah officials to recognize more than 1,000 same-sex marriages performed in the staunchly Mormon state last late last year and early this year before the US Supreme...
View ArticleBrennan Apologizes for CIA Spying on Senate Intelligence Committee
CIA Director John Brennan apologized to several members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) on Thursday following the release of the findings of an internal inquiry concluding agency...
View ArticleFBI Seeking New Invasive Global Hacking Powers
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has proposed a rule change that would grant the agency broad new powers to hack into and carry out surveillance of computers in the United States and around the...
View ArticleMissouri ACLU Introduces ‘Mobile Justice’ Smartphone App
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has launched a new smartphone app meant to empower people to record encounters with law enforcement officers in which civil rights violations may be...
View ArticleGovernment Secretly Tracking Millions of American Drivers
The United States government is tracking the movement of millions of American drivers as part of a secret intelligence program that scans and stores hundreds of millions of motorist records. The...
View ArticleGoogle: Gov’t Plan to Expand FBI Hacking Powers a “Monumental” Threat
Google is warning that a US government plan to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s hacking powers is a “monumental” constitutional threat. The federal government wants to make it easier for...
View ArticleLouisiana Man Gets Life in Prison for Selling $20 Worth of Marijuana
A hungry and homeless man who was entrapped into selling $20 worth of marijuana to an undercover narcotics officer in Louisiana has been sentenced to life in prison, with hard labor, and no parole. The...
View ArticleFederal Judge Orders Release of 2,000 Detainee Torture Photos
A federal judge has ordered the release of nearly 2,100 photos showing the torture and other abuse of detainees, many of them innocent, imprisoned by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan during the...
View ArticleLouisiana ACLU, Students Fight Christian Proselytization, Indoctrination at...
Religious fundamentalists and constitution-minded secularists are locked in an intense debate over Christian indoctrination at a public high school in Louisiana. Slate reports students—including...
View ArticleFederal Judge Allows CIA Torture Victims to Sue Interrogation Contractors
Victims of a Central Intelligence Agency torture program may proceed with a civil lawsuit against the psychologists who were paid tens of millions of dollars to instruct agency operatives how to break...
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