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from Breitbart
Last week, the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to rule that the Fourth Amendment allows for warrant-less cell phone searches. The administration filed a petition asking the SCOTUS to hear a 2007 case in which information was retrieved from a cell phone that was used to obtain evidence against the defendant.
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from The D.C. Clothesline
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from Facecrooks (& Bitdefender)
Facebook’s White Hat program has awarded over $1 million to computer experts around the world for finding and reporting security flaws on the site. However, they ignored the reports of a Palestinian IT researcher last week, and he took an audacious step to get their attention.
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from The Jerusalem Post
Tensions inside Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition rose on Tuesday when Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called for Bayit Yehudi to be replaced by Labor in order to aide her efforts to achieve a diplomatic agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
As the army seeks to decapitate Egypt's oldest Islamist movement, fears remain that the crackdown may tempt some in the Muslim Brotherhood to take up arms, escalating violence in the tense region.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
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from NPR (& affiliates)
In California, officials are ramping up a unique program that identifies and seizes guns from people who are prohibited from keeping them. Under state law, a legally registered gun owner loses the right to own a firearm when he or she is convicted of a crime or becomes mentally ill.
Facebook's mission "to make the world more open and connected" is a familiar refrain among company leaders. But the latest research shows connecting 1.1 billion users around the world may come at a psychological cost.
Ask about the foods that have conquered the world and you're likely to hear about Coca-Cola and McDonald's Big Macs. But the most successful industrial food ever produced flies far under the radar. And it has finally been outed by three anthropologists in a fascinating new book The Noodle Narratives, which analyzes the precipitous rise — or "brilliant career," as the authors say — of instant ramen, from its birth in postwar Japan to its sales of just over 100 billion servings worldwide in 2012. Take a moment to digest that figure: It's about 14 servings for every single person on Earth, at a cost of just a few cents apiece.
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from POLITICO
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Students and families are more willing than ever to borrow to pay for college and increasingly reliant on federal grants and loans to help with tuition bills, statistics released today from the U.S. Education Department show. For the first time, a majority of undergraduates are receiving some kind of federal financial aid — 57 percent. A higher proportion than ever are taking out loans. But while the federal government gave out more grants for low-income students, colleges continued using their own money on grants for students from wealthier families. That’s a trend that concerns some who argue that colleges should do more to help students of limited means.
Comedian Lewis Black says government today is so bad, “drunk people ran it better,” and Sen. Ted Cruz is a prime example. Black singled out Cruz as the politician today is one of the ripest for comedy Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
A last-ditch effort to derail Obamacare started in a barn here Monday night — because it’s not going to start in Washington, advocates told a packed crowd at the opening night of Heritage Action’s August defunding tour. Heritage Action, trying to fuel an effort to defund the president’s health care law on the cusp of its launch, offered a bleak assessment of a Republican Party that’s held 40 anti-Obamacare votes: They don’t have the guts to do everything necessary to stop the law, and that’s where the Heritage faithful step in.
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from PolitiFact
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from Power Line
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from The Spokesman-Review
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from The Wenatchee World
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