A group of Unity College students, led by environmentalist Bill McKibben, set out Tuesday for Washington, DC, carrying a solar panel that once stood atop President Jimmy Carter's White House. In 1979, Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the West Wing as part of a new solar strategy. They were removed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and put i […]

The Justice Department announced late last month that it would not bring any federal charges against the suburban Philadelphia public school system that monitored students by remotely activating the cameras on computer laptops issued to its students. While the school system will face no criminal charges, two civil lawsuits filed by students are proceeding. [ […]

Privacy advocates are raising concerns over the use of RFID chips to help track students at a public preschool in California. The technology is being tested on 240 preschool students in the Head Start Program in Richmond. Preschool students have been outfitted with jerseys carrying tiny computer chips that have a radio antenna that can be tracked from a dist […]

A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit about the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program under President Bush, which sent terrorism suspects abroad to be tortured. In a ruling issued Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama administration's argument that the rendition program constitutes a state secret and i […]

There's a battle looming in Washington over the future of tax cuts for the wealthy. The cuts enacted by President Bush are set to expire at the end of the year. Republicans, led by House Minority Leader John Boehner, have called for extending the $700 billion in tax breaks for the rich. But President Obama strongly criticized the GOP and emphasized his […]

Obama Calls for Ending Bush-Era Tax Cuts for Wealthiest Americans, BP Largely Faults Rig Partners for Oil Spill, 10 Killed in US Attack in Pakistan, US Soldiers Accused of Killing Afghans for Sport, Collecting Body Parts, Report: Karzai Seeks to Limit Foreign Role in Corruption Probe, Slain Mexican Mayor Is 3rd Killed in Less Than Month, Arrests Made in Mass […]

Global condemnation grows over a Florida church’s plan to burn the Quran on September 11th. General David Petraeus warns it could endanger US troops abroad. We speak with a Gainesville student who is helping to organize a series of counter events in the community; Mayor Craig Lowe, the first openly gay mayor, who was targeted by the Florida church during his […]

The longtime radical animal liberation activist Rod Coronado has been sent back to prison for four months after a US district judge in Michigan ruled he had violated the terms of his parole. Coronado's offense was associating with fellow radical activist Mike Roselle by accepting a friend request from Roselle on the social networking website Facebook. W […]

Thirteen people died and hundreds were wounded last week in the African nation of Mozambique when police cracked down on a three-day protest over a 30 percent hike in the price of bread. The UN says the riots in Mozambique should be a wake-up call for governments that have ignored food security problems since the global food crisis of 2008, when countries ar […]

Obama Rejects Extension of Top-Bracket Tax Cuts, Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 US Troops, Admitting Fault, UN Reports Over 500 DRC Rapes Since July, UN Delays Release of Rwanda-DRC Report, Report: Torture-Linked Ex-CIA Officer Rehired as Private Contractor, Protesters, Police Clash over LA Shooting, Groups File Suit over Laptop Searches, Black Farmers Call for Clotu […]