City buses across America now covertly recording passengers’ conversations

Gee, we couldn’t see this coming: House Republican leaders are urging members to alter one of the chamber’s fundamental ethics rules, which would make it harder for lawmakers to discipline a colleague. The  [more...]

[Via boingboing] The group Reporters Without Borders reports that six French journalists who arrived in Los Angeles to cover a video game convention were detained, searched, fingerprinted, handcuffed, and locked up for  [more...]

Another civilian — this time, a South Korean — has been kidnapped in Saudi Arabia, with the kidnappers threatening beheading. It’s strange, even though there are people dying everyday in the middle  [more...]