A Connecticut man beat a traffic ticket in court by claiming a case of mistaken identity, successfully arguing that the officer who ticketed him mistook a McDonald’s hash brown for a cellphone.
Thousands of elated demonstrators outside Parliament cheered and rejoiced as Taiwan became the first country in Asia to fully legalize same-sex marriage May 17.
Manning already spent two months in jail for refusing a previous subpoena to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks. She was released last week when that grand jury’s term expired, but prosecutors quickly hit her with a new subpoena
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit determined that chalking tires to find out how long a car has been in a parking spot is unconstitutional.
Voters in Denver, Colorado made their city the first in the U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms by narrowly approving Ordinance 301.
A new study reveals that Trump’s animosity towards Venezuela has caused grave harm to most vulnerable Venezuelan social groups.
Every extremist killing in the US in 2018 had a link to a right-wing extremism, according to a January 2019 report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
According to a study of FEC filings, the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign has more cash on hand than all of the Democratic Party’s official campaign organizations combined.
At least 60 companies reported 2018 federal tax rates amounting to effectively zero, or even less than zero, on U.S. pretax income, more than twice as many compared to previous years — a partial result of the 2017 Trump tax law — according to a new report.
The extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange sets an extremely dangerous precedence for press freedom.
Astronomers have taken the first ever image of a black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy.
WikiLeaks warned Thursday that founder Julian Assange could be expelled from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London within “hours to days” by Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, citing “a high level source within the Ecuadorian state.”
The closing of The Intercept’s Snowden archive will likely mean the end of any future publications, unless Glenn Greenwald’s rather absurd promise of finding “the right partner … that has the funds to robustly publish” is fulfilled.
Watch: From Colombia and Brazil, Kei Pritsker expounds on the decades of US meddling in South America that preceded the ongoing coup in Venezuela.
“The government seeks to shield itself from all inquiry into the process by which it acts as prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner.”
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