In 2012, New Zealand police seized computer drives belonging to Kim Dotcom, copies of which were unlawfully given to the FBI. Dotcom wants access to the seized content but the drives are encrypted. A judge has now ruled that even if the Megaupload fo ...

Low-income and homeless medical marijuana patients who dwell in Berkeley, California, will soon have access to free weed. Berkeley’s city council unanimously passed a proposal this week that will...

Chad Mendes will have to wait a little longer to get his second shot at the UFC title, as featherweight champion Jose Aldo is forced out of UFC 176 with an injury.

Shannon Maureen Conley, 19, was arrested at the Denver International Airport by the FBI in April and charged with conspiring to help a foreign terrorist organization, which included the Islamic State of Iraq, newly unsealed federal documents show.

There are hippos in Colombia, thanks to the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. BBC News' William Kremer writes that the cocaine trafficker once built himself a zoo filled with exotic wildlife....

We take portable music for granted these days. Any commuter in any big city in the world is more likely than not to have a pair of earbuds or headphones on as they walk, bike, or ride to their...

Women have been at the forefront of Hobby Lobby’s public relations campaign designed by Saxum, an Oklahoma-based advertising agency. Female employees and family members have served to defend the company against the idea that it is waging a war on wom ...

A key Tumblr employee is out of the company. Derek Gottfrid, who joined from the New York Times in 2010, is leaving, according to a memo David Karp sent to the staff. The memo makes it sound like Karp fired Gottfrid.

ProtonMail was supposed to be an easy email encryption tool that would finally give us an answer to Internet surveillance around the world. Instead, PayPal has frozen over $275,000 in donations to the project because, a PayPal representative told th ...

Globally between 28.6 and 38 million people use opioids, in the form of painkillers with brand names such as OxyContin and Vicodin. Prescription drugs and heroin are gaining in popularity worldwide compared with marijuana which is waning, according ...

A Federal Aviation Administration announcement makes video-piloted models subject to regulation. According to my best reading of a notice the FAA announced on Monday, things like the US $154 Husban X4 quadcopter are no longer toys—they are true drone ...

Facebook caused a stir over the weekend with the revelation that it had been altering the content of some users' News Feeds in an attempt to study the psychology behind what causes people to post...

Go behind the scenes of as two undefeated champions prepare to defend their titles against hungry challengers at UFC 175 on July 5. After making history by beating Anderson Silva -- twice -- middleweight king Chris Weidman prepares to face former lig ...

A trusted source has reached out to us with more details of Microsoft's rumored smartwatch.

Startup automaker Elio Motors is promising that it will bring a three-wheeled car to market soon with a rock-bottom price.

CNN Freedom Project. In Nepal, organ traffickers are duping villagers into having operations and taking their kidneys. The capital of Nepal is no different from many places in the world where aging populations, poor diets and no health insurance syst ...

Chael Sonnen tested positive for four banned substances earlier this month in a second random drug test administered by the Nevada Athletic Commission. Nevada Athletic Commission chairman Francisco Aguilar confirmed the news with MMAFighting.com.

The guns of August, and September, and 49 more bloody months. Part of what made World War I especially deadly was the proliferation of machine guns, which made defending territory easy and taking it very, hard. Japan was one of the participants in W ...

Air pollution is still a problem, especially worldwide, but these images show things have recently improved in the US.  Levels of nitrogen dioxide began declining soon after enactment of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, and have continued to fall. ...

Running in the heat and humidity of summer is tough – no way around it! But learn the right way to run in the heat and you’ll be a lot faster this fall!