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EFF, ACLU Demolish “It’s Just Metadata” Claim in NSA Spying Appeal

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief in Klayman v. Obama, a high-profile lawsuit that challenges mass surveillance, arguing that Americans' telephone metadata deserves the highest...

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Obama Orders Review of Police Use of Military Hardware

U.S. President Barack Obama - responding to days of racial violence in Ferguson, Missouri - has ordered a review of the government practice of providing military hardware to state and local police.

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Foley May Have Volunteered For Execution

The family of James Foley, the American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State terror group, believes he may have volunteered to be killed to spare the lives of his fellow hostages.

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More than 191,000 people killed in Syria with ‘no end in sight’ – UN

Destruction caused by fighting in Yarmouk, Syria.