The police in Tennessee found themselves in the difficult predicament of being forced to pay a ransom in bitcoin for their files, according to Coin Desk today. Cryptowall gained acces... Read more
The Open Society Foundations today awarded a grant of $50 million to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in support of its nationwide campaign to end mass incarceration. The campaign s... Read more
Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday likened President Obama’s newly announced plan to preserve net neutrality to Obama’s sweeping overhaul of the health care system. In a tweet, the Texas Re... Read more
President Obama vowed Sunday to move forward with an executive order to ease immigration laws before the end of the year, ignoring dire warnings from Republican leaders that the move will po... Read more
Illinois residents John Kraft and Kirk Allen, who run an anti-corruption non-profit called the Edgar County Watchdogs, have waged a campaign against crooked public officials over the past tw... Read more
(Warning: Graphic Language) Speaking to an all might officer or even so much as looking in their direction can have you facing a barrage of verbal abuse and threats of imprisonment. Every d... Read more
Desperation and hope led Liberian doctor Gorbee Logan to treat a fellow healthcare worker for Ebola using Lamivudine, a drug used for treating HIV and hepatitis B. Over the next two days the... Read more
In the past 24 hours, at least four patients have been admitted for signs of Ebola only to be cleared within hours after being screened by questioning. Yesterday a patient at Baptist St. Ant... Read more
UPDATES at Bottom Texas officials and healthcare workers from around the state are urgently warning friends and family that an “imminent Ebola epidemic is a certainty“. This is n... Read more
New documents leaked by Edward Snowden suggest the National Security Agency (NSA) has agents working under deep cover in US and foreign companies. First published by The Intercept on Friday,... Read more
CITIZENFOUR is the never before seen, utterly riveting first-person look at how director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald first met with whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong... Read more
Last week First Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas blamed a flaw in their Electronic Health Records (EHR) system for the oversight that led to the discharge of Thomas Duncan, exposing countless... Read more