Is This Catholic College The Worst In The Country For Free Speech?

DePaul University in Chicago may be the "worst school for free speech in the country," according to an aggressive attack levied against it Monday by a campus civil liberties group. The accusations against DePaul come from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education , a leading advocate for free speech on campus.

The Latest: Elections chief questions ruling on voter purge

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Latest on a federal appeals court ruling on Ohio's process for removing voters from its registration rolls : Ohio's elections chief says a federal appeals court ruling effectively forces the swing state to place voters who have died or moved on its registration lists. Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted defended the state's process for maintaining its voter rolls on Friday after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found the procedure violates federal law.

Three years after his revelations, Snowden in spotlight again

When President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama were about to meet in the California desert resort of Sunnylands in June 2013, the US government had worked hard to paint China as a villain in cyberspace. The revelation made by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden just days before the shirt-sleeves meeting, however, shocked the world.

Tech leaders, activists call for Obama to pardon Snowden

Tech luminaries Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, have joined a new campaign pushing for a pardon of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Other supporters of the PardonSnowden.org campaign, launched Wednesday, are Harvard law professor and tech policy author Lawrence Lessig; tech investor Esther Dyson; noted cryptographer and MIT professor Ron Rivest; and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow.

The House Science Committee’s Anti-Science Rampage

If you know the answers you want in advance, you can always find them by cherry-picking your data. That's what climate-change deniers have tried to do in recent years in arguing that there's been a "pause" in the global-warming trend over the past two decades-suggesting, thereby, that global warming is just a temporary anomaly unrelated to human industrial activity.

Obama aide to meet with missing Laotian activist’s wife

A top aide of President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will meet with the wife of a missing Laotian activist, whose case has been repeatedly highlighted by human rights groups as an example of authoritarian excesses of Laos' one-party Communist government. Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters he will meet with Shui Meng Ng on Thursday while Obama is visiting Laos.

French premier says recount of Gabon elections would be wise

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Journalist with Boston ties detained in Venezuela, relatives say

A prominent Venezuelan journalist with Boston ties has been arrested amid the antigovernment protests roiling the South American nation, his family and friends said Sunday. Braulio Jatar, director of the Venezuelan news website Reporte Confidencial, was detained early Saturday by Venezuelan police, who later raided his home in eastern Venezuela.

Obama takes troubled trade portfolio to AsiaTrip will promote…

President Barack Obama goes to Asia this week promoting a trade agenda that appears imperiled by anti-globalization sentiment at home and abroad that could undo years of negotiations. Tough comments recently from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and from two European leaders on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership all but signaled the delay and even possible death of both accords.

Some blacks agree with Trump on Democrats – but can’t stand the rest of his message

In an effort to flip the script and court African American voters, Republican nominee Donald Trump is trying to broaden his appeal by attending Saturday service at a black church in Detroit. While some welcome his presence, many prominent African American pastors in the community are less enthused and more skeptical of his intentions.

Activist Pushing For Harriet Tubman Statue At State House

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The Clintons’ ethics test: Government watchdogs weigh in on the …

Once again, the Clinton Foundation popped up to give the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton a nosebleed. A batch of emails turned up by a conservative activist group's FOIA requests revealed, in the words of the Wall Street Journal , "new examples of a Clinton Foundation official seeking access to the State Department on behalf of donors at a time when Hillary Clinton led the department."

Beyond The Spin: Alaska Village’s Demise Is More Complicated…

By Bering Land Bridge National Preserve - Shishmaref- Erin edit, CC BY 2.0, The Alaskan village of Shishmaref has voted to relocate because global warming puts its residents at risk of being washed away - or at least that's the simplified narrative environmentalists and the media peddle. Shishmaref, a small town of nearly 600 people just north of the Bering Strait, has become a poster child for global warming.