Niners QB Kaepernick refuses to stand for anthem in protest

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is refusing to stand for the national anthem before games because he believes the United States oppresses African Americans and other minorities. Kaepernick sat on the team’s bench Friday night during the anthem before the Niners played host to the Green Bay Packers in an exhibition game. He later […]

Stingray documents offer rare insight into police and FBI surveillance

Court documents ordered released by a judge in Oakland, California, have revealed rare insights into how local police and the FBI use a sophisticated surveillance device known as Stingray. Stingray, manufactured by the Delaware-based Harris Corporation, is one of a class of devices known as “cell site simulators” or “IMSI-catchers”. About the size of a […]

Military wants to keep more public data a secret

Some open-government activists are urging members of Congress to revise a Pentagon bill that could keep vast portions of military documents secret. The activists, including the National Press Club and the American Civil Liberties Union, assert in a letter sent Wednesday to members of the House and Senate committees on armed services that some provisions […]

Three killed in crossbow attack in Toronto, say Canada police

Three people have been killed in an attack involving a crossbow in Toronto on Thursday. A man was taken into custody and police later evacuated a building over a suspicious package in a related incident, Detective Mike Carbone said, without giving further details. In the initial incident, police responding to a report of a stabbing […]

It’s time to fix terrorism on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, say lawmakers

Social media firms including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are “consciously failing” to stop their sites from being used to promote terrorism and recruit extremists, U.K. lawmakers claimed in a report released on Thursday. The Commons home affairs select committee, which is made up of British members of parliament (MPs), said that U.S. platforms have become […]

CIA wants to train A.I. to understand satellite photos

For more than half a century, spy satellites have circled the globe, taking pictures of the world below. First launched by the United States and the Soviet Union as ways to keep tabs on each other, satellite photography progressed from a state secret to a common mapping tool, with public photos taken from space available […]

Minneapolis bridge collapse survivor faces terror charge

A survivor of the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people now faces terror charges after authorities say he traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group, departing the U.S. just a few weeks after collecting more than $91,000 in settlement money for his injuries. Mohamed Amiin Ali Roble, 20, was charged Wednesday […]

Is nuclear the energy solution of the future? (Part 1)

The misconceptions around nuclear are profound. For example, did you know the smoke coming out of those giant tubes is just steam? You very well may have, but many believe it to be exhaust. It’s not toxic exhaust that’s going to cause fish to develop a third eye. The isotopes created by nuclear reactors that many fear – and, yet, those isotopes advance medical science and other fields.