That's what the electronics ban from 10 Muslim airline hubs is all about. They used the National Security agencies to fabricate a story about terrorism to help US airlines eliminate rivals.

Maine is poised to make it a lot harder for police to seize your property without charging you with a crime, as lawmakers introduced a bill this month to reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture laws. With civil asset forfeiture, police can seize cash, vehicles and even homes, provided only that the property is suspected of being used in a crime. Often, no charges or convictions are required. Senator Eric Brakey, along...

Westinghouse Electric Co, a unit of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, hit by billions of dollars of cost overruns at four nuclear reactors under construction in the U.S. Southeast.

Attache in US embassy in Wellington is wanted for questioning over incident in which he suffered a broken nose

“I drove to work today with more insurance than most health care providers performing surgery in the state of Texas,” Lyons said. “So you can get a judgment but it’s not worth the paper that it’s printed on.”

NBC News found 25 cases where border agents demanded that U.S. citizens, nearly all Muslim, hand over their phones at airports and border crossings.

The Defamation Trial of the Curé of Cideville. By Aaron Dabbah.

The TSA reacts to a study that found weapons making it past security.

State Rep. Armando "Mando" Martinez filed House Bill 2583 Tuesday that would make the practice of firing off a weapon a class A misdemeanor, if passed. The file comes after a plan to crackdown on celebratory gunfire when the District 39 representative was struck by a stray bullet on New Year's Eve. “I've been contacted by countless individuals who say that it is time to end this senseless and wholly preventable act," Martinez said.

The government's decision to remove the 31-year-old father, who has no criminal record and is married to an American citizen, is the latest indication that President Donald Trump's administration plans to deport practically any immigrant here illegally, even some like Escobar who were temporarily protected, who happens to fall into its cross hairs. The Escobars had thought they were safe. Since 2012, Jose has had a temporary reprieve from deportation and a work permit. [...] Trump's administration last week issued its new guidelines, making almost every immigrant here illegally a priority for deportation.

Racists blubber in court as judge jails them for threatening black child's birthday party with shotgun

When I saw that the cell phone designed for rectal smuggling was called "Beat the Boss," I assumed "The Boss" was a synonym for "The Man," but it turns out it's a reference to a specific product: Xeku's Body Orifice Security Scanner (BOSS), a "hygienic cavity search" chair that scans prisoners for rectal contraband.

Passengers on a flight deplaning in New York were asked for their identification—a request that raises thorny constitutional questions.

Arizona Senate votes to seize assets of those who plan, participate in protests that turn violent. What's to stop the state or someone else from hiring agents provocateurs to damage property, thereby giving the state an excuse to strip peaceful protestors of their homes and assets?

Like so many other things, the revolving-door process in Washington has been spoiled by Donald Trump. You know the revolving door—

One senior senator says allowing any or all phones to be searched at the US border violates the constitution.

It was more than mobile phones.

As the world continues to get used to an America with a President Donald Trump at its head, the binary nature of the current political climate has reared its own head in unfortunate ways. One example of this is the stunning speed with which many of...

A New Zealand court ruled on Monday that internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom could be extradited to the United States to face charges relating to his Megaupload website, which was shutdown in 2012 following an FBI-ordered raid on his Auckland mansion. "I'm no longer getting extradited for copyright. We won on that. I'm now getting extradited for a law that doesn't even apply,"

Five years ago the US Government launched a criminal case against Megaupload and several of its former employees. One of the main allegations in the indictment is that the site only deleted links to copyright-infringing material, not the actual files. Interestingly, this isn't too far off from what cloud hosting providers such as Google Drive and Dropbox still do today.