The man whose much disputed claim to have invented email when he was a 14-year-old is taking legal actions, or threatening such, against anyone who publicly disagrees with his version of history.

Protesters from afar didn’t just take a stand in North Dakota — they brought the movement back home. By Tay Wiles. (Jan. 23, 2016)

Russian lawmakers on Wednesday moved to decriminalize some forms of domestic battery for first-time offenders who do not do serious physical harm to their victims. Members of the State Duma passed the controversial amendment to the Russian criminal code in its second reading, which essentially assures it will go to President Vladimir V. Putin for his signature.

As the dominant party in the pact, the U.S. would have controlled future access to the world’s largest trading zone. By Adam Davidson.

For a state that still has segregationist language in its constitution, it was a surprise. By Lindsay Peoples.

Aetna claimed this summer that it was pulling out of all but four of the 15 states where it was providing Obamacare individual insurance because of a business decision — it was simply losing too much money on the Obamacare exchanges.Now a federal judge has ruled that that was a rank falsehood.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Texas seeking to revive the state's strict Republican-backed voter-identification requirements that a lower court found had a discriminatory effect on black and Hispanic people.

The choice is simple: pardon him, or abandon him to the mercy of Trump. By Brian Beutler.

A Rome court on Tuesday convicted eight former South American political and military leaders in the disappearance and deaths of 23 people of Italian origin during the crackdown on leftists and intellectuals by the region’s military dictatorships.

Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act requires any construction project, “permitted, funded, or licensed by any federal agency” to request information on which endangered species are present in the areas of project. To the best of our knowledge, Donald Trump has filed no such request for his proposed border wall. So we did that for him. (May 3, 2016)

It’s Theresa May’s big day.

The New York Times raises questions about Jeff Sessions–questions it admits have already been answered. By Janine Jackson.

Ten Southern California journalists are fighting an effort by prosecutors to compel them to testify in the San Bernardino County corruption trials of a developer, a former supervisor and other former county officials. By Paloma Esquivel.

iPhone app purchasers may sue Apple Inc over allegations that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps by not allowing users to purchase them outside the App Store, leading to higher prices, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.

Wet foot/ Dry foot option ended.

As you may have heard, last week we were sued for $15 million by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email. We have written, at great length, about his claims and our opinion — backed up by detailed and thorough evidence &mdash...

Anna Yocca freed after initially facing a possible life sentence, but advocates fear her case is a validation of arresting pregnant women who attempt abortion

Michigan will no longer require property owners to post a cash bond of up to $5,000 before they can challenge a civil forfeiture case in court, under a bill signed by Gov. Rick Snyder. HB 4629 is one of the latest overhauls of civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to permanently confiscate private property, even if the owner was never convicted or criminally charged. Previously, to challenge a property seizure, the owner had to post a bond worth 10 percent of the property’s value...

The U.S. government reportedly pays Geek Squad technicians to dig through your PC for files to give to the FBI.