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A representative with the government's top watchdog on Tuesday revealed that the FBI has access to a database of roughly 640 million photos that can be used for facial recognition searches. | Continue reading
The most important and urgently necessary fix is decidedly low tech. | Continue reading
The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday asking most applicants for U.S. visas to provide information on their use of social media, a U.S. Department of State official tells Hill.TV | Continue reading
The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted 34 percent since 1996, according to new study from accounting group Deloitte. | Continue reading
Energy officials within the Trump administration referred to natural gas exported by U.S. energy companies as "freedom gas" and "molecules of U.S. freedom" in official statements. | Continue reading
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday scoffed at a government office's findings that she violated a decades-old law barring officials from weighing in on elections in their government capacity as she railed against Democratic pr | Continue reading
The U.S. Mail “is reliable, trusted and secure — more than 200 federal laws protect the sanctity of the U.S. Mail.” | Continue reading
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss recently as his company considers launching its own cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
Amazon shareholders on Wednesday rejected two proposals to limit the deployment of the company's controversial facial recognition software, dubbed Rekognition. | Continue reading
Republicans hoping to paint Democrats as extreme on abortion are facing a major obstacle in the wake of Alabama’s restrictive new law. | Continue reading
Success stories like these rarely break through the news cycle. | Continue reading
Navy F-18 fighter jets have encountered Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon — once commonly referred to as UFOs — off the East Coast of the United States. | Continue reading
The effort to wipe clean questionable content is happening all around us. | Continue reading
Reforming the presidential primary will not be easy. But Americans should not settle for a broken primary process. Our democratic values are too essential to compromise. | Continue reading
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said this week that he was concerned President Trump is “exercising powers that do not really belong to him.” | Continue reading
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Wednesday announced that he will introduce legislation banning "manipulative" online game features he says can push children to become addicted to technology. | Continue reading
Former Boston Red Sox first baseman David Ortiz told a Boston-area radio host Tuesday that if he were still on the team, he would join the other players planning to skip an upcoming visit to the White House. | Continue reading
A government agency known for its secrecy is making a splash in a very public forum: Twitter. | Continue reading
Activists and farmers' organizations in India vowed to defend several farmers accused in court of growing a trademarked variety of potatoes with out the consent of PepsiCo., the trademark's owner. | Continue reading
The Pentagon’s official Twitter account on Thursday retweeted then quickly deleted a post that included a call for President Trump to resign. | Continue reading
The National Security Agency is recommending that the White House officially end the agency's mass collection of U.S. | Continue reading
The Department of Homeland Security in a report released Wednesday said that it is aiming to use facial recognition techno | Continue reading
Although public concern for the debt rises and falls depending on the politics of the moment, the debt itself only rises. | Continue reading
George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, mocked a tweet from President Trump offering advice to Boeing in the wake of two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max jets. | Continue reading
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked classified information from the agency in 2013, called WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest Thursday a “dark moment for press freedom.” | Continue reading
The House on Wednesday voted to reinstate Obama-era net neutrality rules prohibiting internet service providers from interfering with web traffic. | Continue reading
The EU saw internet regulation as a clash of content versus technology. They got it wrong. | Continue reading
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that the Senate won't take up a net neutrality bill currently before lawmakers in the House. | Continue reading
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that would abolish annual time changes and make daylight saving time permanent for the state. | Continue reading
The Senate on Tuesday blocked the Green New Deal, a progressive climate change resolution that Republicans view as prime fodder heading into the 2020 presidential election. | Continue reading
Officials in the city of Sandusky, Ohio, have decided that the city will no longer observe Columbus Day as a holiday, switching it for Election Day. | Continue reading
Many of the state's laws taking effect this year range from the unnecessary to the silly to the sad. | Continue reading
In the newest press salvo, unnamed intel officials fanned out to air anonymous grievances against their commander in chief. | Continue reading
With voters clearly ready to rank more than one candidate in what is shaping up to be a talented field, why weaken their vote by denying them that power? | Continue reading
Apps and social media networks collect intimate details about their users — far more than people realize. | Continue reading
A changing climate poses the greatest economic risks to the red states where voters and the politicians they elect are the least likely to believe in the threat of a warming world, according to a new report. | Continue reading
A group of transparency advocates released a massive number of hacked and leaked Russian documents on Friday in what is being viewed as retaliation against Russia's sharing of hacked Democratic National Committee | Continue reading
FBI Director Christopher Wray tore into what he called a “mind-boggling” and “short-sighted” government shutdown in a video message to employees on Thursday, telling them he is angrier than he has ever been. | Continue reading
Ireland's data protection authority revealed Friday that it is investigating Twitter's compliance with Europeans' new data privacy laws following a series of data breaches. | Continue reading
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says that e-cigarettes face an uncertain future in U.S. markets unless youth smoking rates drop over the next year. | Continue reading
A generation of post-millennials is poised to enter the electorate as perhaps the most liberal age cohort ever, fueled by unprecedented diversity and expansive views of the role of government. On issues ranging from th | Continue reading
Our country is ready for reforms to our national privacy law designed for the privacy challenges of today and tomorrow. | Continue reading
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Republican critics have both called her proposal to dramatically increase America's highest tax rate "radical" but a new poll released Tuesday indicates that a majority of Americans agrees with the idea. | Continue reading
Blame the government for the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer in the Golden State. | Continue reading
Square, the payments company headed by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is re-applying for a bank license pulling its first application earlier this year, | Continue reading