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The Army’s Misguided Crackdown on Tattoos
Despite being in its thirteenth year of combat in Afghanistan and facing threats to its budget on the home front, the United States Army is focusing its energy on a more longstanding menace: soldiers whose appearance drives sergeants major crazy.
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Can Obama convince America that Republicans are crazy?
With the GOP threatening to trigger a government shutdown or debt default over ObamaCare, the White House is trying out a new argument to sway voters: Republicans are nuts.
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Why are Americans giving up their citizenship?
The number of Americans giving up their citizenship has rocketed this year - partly, it's thought, because of a new tax law that is frustrating many expats.
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Did the Wrong Man Spend 40 Years in Solitary Confinement?
What a sham trial in Louisiana says about the U.S. court system
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US regulators seek public input on plan to investigate patent trolls
The US Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead – slowly – with plans to investigate the ways and practices of so-called Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs): patent trolls, to you and me.
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Yes, I'm a convict—will society ever be OK with that?
A level-3 sex offender made waves this week by announcing himself to his community. Can society ever truly accept the post-prison convict?
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Could Apple be forced into charger redesign by EU?
Apple could be forced to scrap its iPhone chargers under EU plans to make a universal phone charger law. Under the proposals, mobile phone manufacturers would have to make devices compatible with the universal charger which would hit companies like Apple who have their own design.
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Does Gmail violate federal and state wiretapping laws?
Google’s practice of scanning Gmail users’ correspondence in order to generate targeted advertisements may violate state and federal laws, ITworld reported.
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New York creates state-wide court system to help prostitutes
New York is creating the nation's first statewide system of courtrooms aimed at helping people escape lives of prostitution, which the law treats as a crime but the state's chief judge on Wednesday described as akin to "modern-day slavery."
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Russian court jails 6 more Greenpeace activists
A court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk on Sunday sent six more Greenpeace activists to jail for two months and showed no sign that the remaining two activists would be treated any differently for a protest at a drilling platform in Arctic waters.
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Pinterest wins multimillion-dollar lawsuit against 'Pinterost'
Pinterest celebrated a big win over cybersquatters Monday when a California judge awarded the online window-shopping wishlist site $7.2 million. The case was fought against a man who'd used similarly titled URLs to direct individuals towards spammy ads for online casinos.
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Congress, but not staff, still gets paid - it's in the Constitution
In an extended shutdown, most of the federal workforce would go without pay, but the checks will keep coming to the 533 current members of Congress.
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Would You Want Charlie Sheen on Your Jury?
Last week, Charlie Sheen showed up for jury duty in Los Angeles, telling the gossip site TMZ that he hoped for a multiple homicide case. He was dismissed by 3 p.m. that day. But his summons happened to come at a particularly interesting time for jury duty in California. Right at this moment, Governor Jerry Brown is poised to sign or veto a bill allowing non-citizens to serve as jurors.
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Russia charges 14 Greenpeace activists with piracy
Five Greenpeace activists were charged Wednesday morning with piracy in connection with a protest at a Russian oil platform, an official of the environmental group said. Roman Dolgov of Russia, Sini Saarela of Finland, Anna Paula Maciel of Brazil, Kieron Bryan of Britain and Dima Litvinov, who has U.S. and Swedish citizenship, were charged with organized group piracy in the northern Russian city of Murmansk, according to Vladimir Chuprov, head of Greenpeace Arctic.
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Video shows woman being forcibly strip searched by male and female deputies after DUI arrest: lawsuit
Dana Holmes, 33, is seen being searched upright by a female officer and then violently pulled to the ground by a group of male officers as well at LaSalle County, Ill., jail in May.
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'Say no to Internet censorship' petition nears 100K signatures
The "Say no to Internet censorship" petition has tallied nearly 100,000 signatures in the past week -- showing that opposition to possible government proposals on stricter Internet laws is growing.
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Gay Florida teen accepts plea deal, prosecutor says
Kaitlyn Hunt, the 19-year-old who faces charges of lewd and lascivious battery in Florida after police learned of an alleged sexual relationship she had with a 14-year-old girl, has accepted a plea deal, prosecutor Brian Workman said Wednesday night.
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Jude Law joins protest over Greenpeace piracy charges
Actor Jude Law and musician Damon Albarn have joined hundreds demonstrating in London over piracy charges brought by Russia against 30 Greenpeace activists.
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Pirate Joe's Celebrates Dismissal Of Trader Joe's Lawsuit
A U.S. judge granted Pirate Joe's motion to dismiss a trademark infringement lawsuit this week.
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Lavabit vs. the FBI: the fight for the soul of American software
Ladar Levison is having a rough summer. It’s a little less than two months since the Lavabit founder was forced to shutter his secure email service amid legal complications. While the tech press has been piecing through the details, Levison has been slugging it out in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, trying to defend the principles of cryptography in a federal courthouse.
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