Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Federal agent Charlie Houser is forced to fight gun crime with a meager tool: a bunch of boxes of paper. Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns There’s no telling how many guns we have in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to…
Popular cloud storage firm Dropbox has been hacked, with over 68m users’ email addresses and passwords leaking on to the internet. The attack took place during 2012. At the time Dropbox reported a collection of user’s email addresses had been stolen. It did not report that passwords had been stolen as well. The dump of…
Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson star in Fox’s “Empire.”View Full Caption Fox CHICAGO — Teens and children at a Chicago juvenile detention center were confined to their rooms and banned from family visits for days so “Empire” could film at the facility, according to a new class-action lawsuit. The Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center…
share tweet pin email During last year’s trial in which graduating senior Owen Labrie was charged with sexually assaulting a younger student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School, his accuser was shielded in anonymity by law. Chessy Prout, who was 15 years old at the time of the incident, has now decided to publicly reveal…
Buzzfeed’s Chris Hamby is out today with the first installment of a promised four-part investigative report into the system of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). Like all such reports, it needs a spectacular headline and summary to draw clicks, and this one’s a doozy: The Court That Rules the World A parallel legal universe, open only…
In 1966, as the investigative journalist Wayne Barrett detailed in “Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth,” a New York legislative committee accused Fred Trump of using state money earmarked for middle-income housing to build a shopping center instead. One lawmaker called Mr. Trump “greedy and grasping.” By this point, the Trump organization’s business practices were…
Imagine a private, global super court that empowers corporations to bend countries to their will. Say a nation tries to prosecute a corrupt CEO or ban dangerous pollution. Imagine that a company could turn to this super court and sue the whole country for daring to interfere with its profits, demanding hundreds of millions or even billions…
When the details resurfaced of the 1999 college rape case against “Birth of a Nation” filmmaker and star Nate Parker, many were disgusted by the horror described in the legal documents: Two male students eager for sex allegedly ganged up on a young, intoxicated female student. Once charges were brought, Parker and his then-roommate, Jean Celestin,…
A Texas-based former porn star who says her career was ruined by years of online harassment is suing Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion in federal court. As the Daily Mail first reported on Wednesday afternoon, Paree La’Tiejira—who appeared in over 40 adult films under the alias Lady Paree—filed a lawsuit in the Southern district…
An exclusive investigation by reported.ly has traced the manufacture and shipping of bomb components from the European Union to the United Arab Emirates, and also discovered the use of bombs made by the European manufacturer in attacks by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, where potentially unlawful civilian deaths have been documented. The Germany-based manufacturer of the bomb components, Rheinmetall AG, is…