SNOWDEN: MASS SURVEILLANCE MAKING US LESS SAFE
In this image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam…
Human rights and civil liberties
4 US WHISTLEBLOWERS MEET SNOWDEN IN MOSCOW
Lon Snowden, left, speaks to The Associated Press in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013. Edward Snowden’s father Lon Snowden told Russian television outside the Moscow airport Thursday morning that…
MORMONS PUSHING CHURCH STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALITY
By BRADY McCOMBS FILE – In this June 2, 2013 file photo, members of the Mormons Building Bridges march during the Utah Gay Pride Parade in Salt Lake City. The…
JAPANESE COURT: ANTI-KOREA ‘HATE SPEECH’ ILLEGAL
By MARI YAMAGUCHI In this photo taken Sunday, May 19, 2013, nationalist protesters with Japanese flags, left, and Japan’s naval ensign, right, march through a Tokyo street to denounce”privileges” for…
SUPREME COURT TERM BEGINS WITH CONTENTIOUS TOPICS
By MARK SHERMAN FILE – In this June 27, 2012, file photo law enforcement officers set up a perimeter controls in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on the eve…
DESPITE GUN DEBATE, ATF STILL BOXED IN BY POLITICS
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL FILE – In this June 11, 2013, file photo B. Todd Jones of Minnesota, President Barack Obama’s nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
NSA CHIEF ADMITS TESTING US CELLPHONE TRACKING
By KIMBERLY DOZIER and STEPHEN BRAUN National Intelligence Director James Clapper listens at left, as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct.…
FRENCH COURT: ID CHECKS ON MINORITIES DEEMED LEGAL
By ELAINE GANLEY CORRECTING LEFT AND RIGHT – Lawyers acting for the plaintiff, Slim ben Achour, left, and Felix de Belloy talk during a press conferene in Paris, Wednesday, Oct.…