A little-known amendment to the reauthorized version of Fisa would enlarge the government’s surveillance powers to a drastic, draconian degreeThe US House of Representatives agreed to reauthorize a controversial spying law known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act last Friday without any meaningful reforms, dashing hopes that Congress might finally put a stop to intelligence agencies’ warrantless surveillance of Americans’ emails, text messages and phone calls.The vote...
Joe Biden claims he's 'examining' his authority to control the border. It's a lie, and he's just trying to buy time until the election.
An animated sequel fizzles where it doesn’t actively offend
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Larry Price Jr. weighed 185 pounds in the summer of 2020, when he entered the Sebastian County, Arkansas, jail where he would die. When guards found him deceased a year later, he was alone in his cell, lying in contaminated water and his own urine and weighing 121 pounds. As the word “jail” suggests, he had not been convicted of a crime. Nor was Price, who suffered from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses, detained because of the crime he was accused of — verbally threatening police...
CNN’s Randi Kaye reports on former President Donald Trump’s evolving views on abortion over the years.
As a Bruins fan and season-ticket holder for UCLA women's basketball for more than 25 years, I'd like to thank staff writer Ben Bolch for writing a stupid, over-the-line hit piece on the LSU Lady Tigers, thereby providing fuel for Coach Kim Mulkey, who never needs fuel, and her players by comparing LSU vs. UCLA as "dirty debutantes" vs. "milk and cookies." Then after UCLA lost he rubbed salt in the wound with his next story. We don't know what you were trying to achieve, Ben, but with writers...
The Pew Research Center released polling this week that casts serious doubt on recent surveys showing Donald Trump making significant gains among Black and Latino voters. The Pew survey suggested majorities of Latino, Black, and Asian voters continue to largely favor the Democratic Party. The results show very little change among Black and Latino Americans since the early 1990s, while white voters remain almost exactly as aligned with the Republican Party as they were in the early ‘90s. "Not...
I know that many of you have been enjoying spring break, the Easter holiday or March Madness. Others simply are relieved to see that the U.S. government may have averted shutdown.
I’ve seen a few partial solar eclipses through the years, but I want totality, Baily’s Beads, the sun’s corona, darkness. The works.
Without researching it, do you know which stock market sector is performing
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has dodged a bullet. On March 27, Reynolds made the right call in signing a new law to make important changes to Iowa’s Area Education Agencies after reviewing feedback from disgruntled parents and lawmakers as well as evidence of deficient testing scores for students with disabilities and the student population in