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Hey cyber techbros, smugly yelling 'patch and back-up' won't fix ransomware
Stop blaming the customers who drown in the endless torrent of repairs needed to plug the holes in your shoddy products. This week it's Microsoft, but you're all guilty.
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Victims of Rape and Law: How the Arab World Laws Protect the Rapist Not the Victim
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How local governments keep poor people in jail just because they’re poor
Current bail practices amount to a state-sponsored war on the less fortunate.
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Louisiana Can’t Afford to Pay for Public Defenders, So Inmates Are Pleading Guilty
Michael Carter has spent more than a year and a half in jail waiting for a trial. Even still, the 27-year-old smiles easily when telling his story. His face is framed by an 8-by-4 inch window that separates the inmates at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison from their visitors. Like most people standing in the caged area of the visiting room, Carter is black.
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West Virginia Supreme Court Rules Anti-Gay Assaults Are Not Hate Crimes
The Mountain State won’t protect LGBTQ people from bias-motivated violence. By Mark Joseph Stern.
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Lawyers demand answers after artist forced to unlock his phone
Artist who arrived home in San Francisco faced ‘unconstitutional’ demands to unlock his phone
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Mississippi African Americans besieged by illegal searches, ACLU lawsuit says
Rights group paints devastating picture of systematic racial discrimination by the sheriff’s department of Madison County in a federal court complaint
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There Are People Who Pay Thousands for the Empty Pill Bottles of Dead Celebrities
Stars in question have included Elvis, Truman Capote, Michael Jackson, and Marilyn Monroe.
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‘It would have saved my son’: Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act becomes law in Canada
It’s a monumental step towards saving lives as the death toll from drug overdoses in our country continues to climb. On Thursday, the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act became law – protecting those afraid of calling 911 in the event of an overdose from facing drug charges of their own. Marie Agioritis, of Saskatoon, has advocated for the change after a life-altering loss in 2015.
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Supporters, opponents bring familiar arguments to 10-hour [Nebraska] public hearing on Keystone XL pipeline
About 135 people spoke during the 10-hour meeting, but the overall turnout was lower than expected. Commission staff estimated 270 people took seats in a hall set up with 500 chairs. By Joe Duggan.
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Seven Jaw-Dropping Revelations From Hearings on the Motion to Dismiss the DNC Fraud Lawsuit
Last Tuesday, Senior U.S. District Judge William J. Zloch heard oral arguments… By Zach Haller. (Apr. 30, 2017)
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Court: Gay couple's suit against Kim Davis can proceed
A federal appeals court says a gay couple's lawsuit seeking damages from a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue them a marriage license can proceed. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue a marriage license to David Ermold and David Moore in 2015 because she said it violated her religious beliefs. Ermold and Moore sued, along with several other couples. Davis lost, and spent five days in jail for refusing to follow a court order.
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The US Department of Justice is literally prosecuting a woman for laughing at Jeff Sessions
As attorney general, Jeff Sessions now heads the Justice Department.
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Supreme Court clears the way for cities, including L.A., to sue banks over foreclosure crisis
In a 5-3 decision, the court said the cities had standing to sue under the Fair Housing Act for allegedly discriminating against minority borrowers. By David G. Savage.
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A doctor called his broker during a delivery. It will cost $33.8 million.
Marla Dixon was in the final stage of labor and ready to deliver a baby boy when the obstetrician arrived at her bedside at North Shore Medical Center in Miami. It was not a high-risk pregnancy. But over the next 90 minutes, the doctor made a series of missteps that led to a tragic outcome for Dixon and her baby — and a $33.8 million malpractice judgment, according to a federal lawsuit.
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DNC Shatters The Illusion Of American Democracy In Order To Keep People’s 27 Bucks
Well that didn’t take much. By Caitlin Johnstone.
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Voting Rights on Trial on the Bayou
A federal lawsuit challenges a vestige of Jim Crow, and opens up new questions about the current state of the ballot. By Vann R. Newkirk II.
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Now’s the time to eliminate Canada’s old blasphemy laws
Now that M-103 has passed many Canadians have concerns that the country is creeping towards some form of anti-blasphemy legislation.
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Texas police withheld records of their son’s death. Now they know why
Kathy and Robert Dyer received the phone call out of every parent’s nightmares at 3 a.m... By Eric Dexheimer.
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Your headphones aren't spying on you, but your apps are. Here is why
Lawyers in the US are claiming that headphone and speaker company Bose, is secretly collecting information about what users listen to when they use its bluetooth wireless headphones. Edelson, the lawyers…
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