At the age of 10, Bernard Hare's father took him down the mine where he worked. It was an experience he would never forget. Sometimes, even now, I wake up with my head throbbing and my ears ringing, as if my skull has been tightly clamped in a vice all night. I haven't been to the doctor's about it.…

Follow @TIMENewsfeed Maybe Uncle Ben was right : With great power comes great responsibility. While most students at the famed Massachusetts Institute of Technology use their powers for good — for example, creating drugs that can fight any virus — others are busily using their prodigious math skills…

William Binney spent more than 30 years at the National Security Agency designing programs that enabled mass surveillance of foreign terrorists. Weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Binney retired in disgust when he saw the agency using that technology to spy on every American. Since then, he has agitated…

G7 leaders, including Angela Merkel (in pink jacket), and invitees line up for the traditional group photo at the end of the summit.Photograph: Sven Hoppe/dpa/Corbis The G7 leading industrial nations have agreed to cut greenhouse gases by phasing out the use of fossil fuels by the end of the…

Josh Fox Jun. 05, 2015 02:52PM EST In a draft report five years in the making, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed that fracking does indeed contaminate drinking water , a fact the oil and gas industry has vehemently denied. But instead of dismantling the industry's "not one…

Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut , the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized birth control for married couples. (The decision was expanded to non-married Americans in 1972.) The case involved Estelle Griswold, then head of the Planned Parenthood League of…

For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin. Credit Photograph by BSIP/UIG Via Getty The brain’s foundation, frame, and walls are built in the womb. As an embryo grows into a fetus, some of its dividing cells turn into neurons, arranging themselves into layers and…

Rescued migrants disembark from a German navy frigate in Palermo, Sicily.Photograph: Mike Palazzotto/EPA The number of migrants to have arrived in Italy by boat this year passed 50,000 at the weekend as over 5,800 people were rescued in the Mediterranean. A total of 3,480 people were rescued on…

In the 1960s, the U.S. government as well as state and local authorities waged a war against the Black Panthers and other militants who were challenging white racism. The repression included sabotage and outright murder, a grim reality recalled in a new documentary, writes David Finkelstein. By…

Bates Motel from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” REUTERS/Archives It is hard to describe just how bad things are for the Republican Party. Each day it looks more and more like the Bates Motel from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film Psycho . More precisely, the GOP is actually most like the central…

Two years ago, the first story based on the Snowden archive was published in The Guardian , revealing a program of domestic mass surveillance, which, at least in its original form, ended this week. To commemorate that anniversary, Edward Snowden himself reflected in a New York Times op-ed on the…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. June 7, 2015, 9:10 PM GMT / Updated June 8, 2015, 5:29 PM GMT By Jacquellena Carrero and Alex Johnson A police officer in McKinney, Texas, has been placed on…

Bill McKibben is a distinguished scholar at Middlebury College and a founder of the group 350.org. If historians someday need to explain how mankind managed to blow the fight against climate change, they need only point to last month’s shareholder meeting at Exxon Mobil headquarters in Dallas. The…

Senator Tom Cotton speaks to anti-war activist Fred Boenig. The Republican senator Tom Cotton was confronted on Friday by a the father of an airman who died in Afghanistan , who told him: “Now that you have a child, you will understand” opposition to further American engagement in the Middle East.…

Protesters have clashed with police in the German resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen as G7 leaders prepared for wide-ranging talks on subjects from Fifa corruption to controversial free trade agreements. Police responded with pepper spray when a group of marchers tried to break through their…

Members of SEAL Team 6 and other units parachute from a plane near the Navy frigate Halyburton, in the Indian Ocean, to start the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali pirates. They have plotted deadly missions from secret bases in the badlands of Somalia. In Afghanistan, they have engaged in…

This is an edited version of a speech that given by Naomi Klein on May 21st in downtown Toronto, at a press conference announcing the upcoming March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate on July 5. Video of Naomi’s full speech is also included below. I’ve had the incredible privilege of traveling around…

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Photo by Patricia de Melo Moreria/AFP Portugal decriminalized the use of all drugs in 2001 . Weed, cocaine, heroin, you name it -- Portugal decided to treat possession and use of small quantities of these drugs as a public health issue, not a criminal one. The drugs were still illegal, of course.…

PAUL BUCK/AFP/Getty By Patrick Malone, Center for Public Integrity The Obama administration levied fines totaling nearly $1 million this week against two of the nation’s nuclear weapons laboratories, mostly for failing to keep track of classified materials and for repeatedly disclosing information…

Claims that crime has shot up because of the Ferguson protests are gaining traction, despite scanty evidence.Photograph: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images P ulling a page out of the conservative playbook from the 1960’s, some are arguing that America is seeing a “dramatic crime wave” as a result of…

The bowhead whale is listed under the US Endangered Species Act.Photograph: Alamy Royal Dutch Shell’s plans for exploratory drilling in the US Arctic this summer will involve the harassment of whales and seals by the thousands, an application document filed by Shell to the National Marine Fisheries…

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T he neighborhood of Campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a deflated volleyball in a dusty lot below a wall with a hand-painted logo of the American Red Cross. In late 2011, the Red Cross…

A touching act of kindness in a small town is now being seen around the world -- and it started with this Facebook post: Sumter, S.C., police officer Gaetano Acerra reached out to Cameron Simmons, 13, after the boy called police following a fight with his mother. Simmons told the officer he didn't…

Subscribe to Motherboard Radio today - http://apple.co/1DWdc9d Motherboard meets John Romero, one of the creators behind Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, and Quake, breakthrough games that all but created the first-person shooter genre. Watch Episode 1: Meet The Programmer Behind 'Centipede' -…

Are you dating someone utterly out of his or her mind? Do you find yourself thinking about how crazy and "all over the place" your significant other is? Do you find yourself describing your girlfriend as weird or your boyfriend as absolutely insane? Well, you don't even know how lucky you are. If…

In addition to famously subsidizing political campaigns, the Koch brothers also pour millions a year into think tanks and universities. Some warn that the funding can come with conditions that threaten academic freedom. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Charles and David Koch are well known for funding political…

Mitchell Brad Martinez died after emerging comatose from a police van (Screenshot/WPTV) Mitchell Brad Martinez of Vero Beach, Florida, seemed to be a healthy 35 year old when he got into a police van Friday. But by the time his eight-minute ride in Indian County sheriff’s deputies’ custody was over,…

Tux as a beacon of hope and freedom 05 Jun 2015 Feed 298 up Image by : opensource.com x Get the newsletter Join the 85,000 open source advocates who receive our giveaway alerts and article roundups. At my public library job, I run into people from all walks of life. Recently a mother walked into the…

Matthew Ajibade broke female sergeant’s nose while being restrained after arrest, police say. He died in an isolation cell, after he “became combative during the booking process,” according to a release from the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office in Savannah, Georgia.Photograph: From Ajibade famliy A…

(Reuters) - Baltimore's top prosecutor plans to seek a protective order that would block the release of Freddie Gray's autopsy report and other documents as she prosecutes police over his arrest, the Baltimore Sun reported on Thursday. State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby told the newspaper that…

“People always ask me, ‘Why aren’t there artists writing lyrics like Public Enemy or the Clash or Rage Against the Machine?'” Tom Morello says. “And my answer is always, ‘There are. They may not be currently at the top of the chart and you have to seek to find them, but there are.'” Now the…

Roughly 4 million current and former federal employees have had their data exposed by a hack, the Obama administration said Thursday. The notification from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was short on details, but it appears troves of sensitive information had been pilfered. Separate media…

Loading... Work-life balance COMMENT Loading... To mark his contribution to the hallowed halls of management comedy, we profiled Dilbert creator, Scott Adams, in the November 2013 issue of HBR. He was kind enough to lend us his 550-page tome Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert , where he reveals that…

You may have heard of the TPP... ...but do you knowwhat's in it? Right now, the Obama administration and giant corporations arespreading misinformation about the Trans-Pacific Partnership andhow it will affect Americans. But if you read it,you'll see that the TPP threatens to corrupt our democracy…

ALONG THE CURANJA RIVER, PERU— At first the signs were subtle. A banana tree was stripped of ripe fruit. Papaya and watermelon vanished. A machete went missing. Clothes hanging off a scarecrow disappeared. The indigenous villagers who hunt and farm manioc in small clearings here already knew they…