FBI agents complained of prisoner abuse FBI agents have lodged repeated complaints of physical and mental mistreatment of prisoners held in Iraq and Cuba, saying in reports that military officials have placed lighted cigarettes in detainees’ ears The order to…

U.S. meat plants are allowing brains and spinal cord from older cattle to enter the food supply, violating strict government regulations aimed at preventing the spread of mad cow disease, a federal meat inspectors union said on Monday. The FDA,…

“Today, I hope we can begin the healing”, John Kerry in his concession speech. Fuck the healing. There, in Kerry’s single dreadful sentence of just nine words is about half of what’s wrong with the Democrats. The Republicans don’t care…

The waters of Lake Tahoe are warming up at almost twice the rate of the world’s oceans, probably as a consequence of global climate change, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, Davis.

That’s “Yet Another Fiendish Menace From the Internet…” “Dark Alleys” on the Internet “Sounding the alarmist tone many of us became used to in the early days of the web, The New York Times has a story that talks about…

Public denunciation of torture not reflective of interrogation techniques, security officials say Numerous unidentified national security officials have described the U.S.’s public denunciation of torture as inconsistent with the government’s actual practice, The Washington Post reported Thursday. “If you don’t…

A former Grateful Dead songwriter who was ejected from a plane in 2003 after airport officials found drugs and paraphernalia in his luggage has become the latest litigant to seek information about the Transportation Security Administration’s secret policies on screening…