thinkprogress.org When Republicans appointed Pablo Pantoja to State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, they hoped he would be able to bridge the sizable gap that only expanded during the 2012 elections, when the...

www.tennessean.com Gov. Bill Haslam announced Monday that he will veto a bill that would have compelled investigators into animal cruelty to turn over their footage within 48 hours.

phys.org Like small children, scientists are always asking the question 'why?'. One question they've yet to answer is why nature picked quantum physics, in all its weird glory, as a sensible way to behave. Researchers Corsin Pfister and Stephanie Wehner...

www.alternet.org During the 1950s Red Scare, America's first drug czar fed the opiate addiction of America's most feared senator.

www.guardian.co.uk Belize pyramid dating back at least 2,300 years is destroyed by firm to extract crushed rock for road-building project

www.guardian.co.uk Some in audience taken to hospital after lurid scenes of gas chambers and rapes in production of Tannhäuser

www.thoughtcrime.org Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they’re working on in that country. Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it’s not uncommon...

wigs http://rt.com/news/fsb-detain-cia-agent-253/ rt.com Russia’s counterintelligence agency has detained a CIA agent in Moscow trying to recruit an officer of the Russian secret service, the Federal Security Service (FSB) announced. The agent was operating...

cute http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/most-transparent-administration-in-histo reason.com The American Civil Liberties Union was curious about warrantless government snooping on citizens' text messages. So the group filed a Freedom of Information

www.alternet.org Toru Hashimoto's remarks that soldiers needed prostitutes to "maintain discipline" during World War II spark anger.