www.forbes.com The rate of home ownership is 36% less among those currently repaying student debt. You didn't have to own a home to feel the effects of the housing crash. The student loan problem could have similar ripple effects. Student loan debt has...

www.boilingfrogspost.com “There’s no former CIA officer more hated by members of the intelligence establishment than Agee; no one’s even close” Before there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before ther...

www.wired.com Not content with simply being the man-made object to travel farthest from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft recently entered a bizarre new region at the solar system’s edge that has physicists baffled.

news.mongabay.com After a colder-than-average spring, Alaska is suffering a sudden and record-breaking heatwave. Temperatures on Monday, June 17th hit a stunning 96 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) in Talkeetna, Alaska, just below the state's highest...

* Pioneered spot market for crude oil * Indicted over illegal oil sales * 'Babe Ruth of asset concealment' www.huffingtonpost.com LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Marc Rich, father of modern oil trading and founder of the group that became Glencore Xstrata,...

www.guardian.co.uk Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating 'one trillion records processed'

"The U.S. Corporation shall be closed, repealed and replaced by our original United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, which together create and protect our representative government. Our government was intended to be a public trust, not a privately-run...

"Border Hammock by Murat Gok in Istanbul, Turkey"

www.guardian.co.uk Government renounces Andean Trade Preference Act even as Snowden's prospects of reaching Ecuador from Moscow dimmed