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Black Lives Matter dropped its original claim that Tania was unarmed when she was shot Black Lives Matter backed off its claim that cops were lying about 18-year-old Tania Harris having a knife when she was shot last Thursday night, but her family and their supporters are still outraged. They argue even though she did…
Baltimore, MD — Just minutes after the police state curfew went into effect in Baltimore Saturday night, the brutality began. However, the actual coverage of that brutality varies depending on who is telling this story. The first video of the arrest is put out by CNN. It begins with a semi-conscious man laying on the ground…
It was the video that showed Islamic State soldiers burning a Jordanian pilot alive inside a cage that propelled former beauty queen Lara Abdallat to get involved in the fight against the militant group. “It was a wake-up call for many of us, and a call to action,” the former Miss Jordan and hactivist for GhostSec…
/.article-header__top Economists on the left and right alike embrace the theory behind the levy the city council president wants to implement. But the political realities are where things get sticky. /.article-header__hgroup /.article-meta /.l__article-header Gun violence doesn’t just harm individual victims — shootings also strain public coffers when the government is on the hook for medical…
The Bitcoin network is being hammered by a massive spam attack, and the targets now include WikiLeaks and Voat, the upstart Reddit clone that became a home for Redditors fleeing the site after new anti-harassment policies were instituted. The onslaught began earlier this week, when thousands of tiny Bitcoin transactions—called “dust”—were sent across the network…
Citing dismal conditions at Rikers Island and a 16-year-old who committed suicide after he was jailed without charges for three years, the city of New York announced Wednesday plans to eliminate bail requirements for non-violent and low-level offenders. http://gawker.com/teen-jailed-fo… According to the AP, which broke the story, about 45,000 people are held on bail in…
Twitter has spent the last 12 hours mockingly asking if Hacking Team was awake yet, but the firm’s massive data breach reveals a more serious side to the PR disaster — deals allegedly between Hacking Team and oppressive governments. HACKING TEAM BREACH TIMELINE Over the weekend, the secretive Hacking Team security firm was the victim…
A New York judge on Monday threw out charges accusing a former computer programmer of stealing code from Goldman Sachs, bringing a six-year battle toward a close and highlighting how America’s legal system has failed to keep up with the rapid changes of the digital age. In the end, the protracted trial of Sergey Aleynikov,…
Since the shooting of nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC earlier this month, a string of fires have burned at at least seven Southern churches, most of them predominantly black. Federal officials have launched investigations into the fires to determine if they are hate crimes. Authorities suspect that natural…
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