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The FBI Is Building A National Watchlist That Gives Companies Real Time...

Will the FBI’s Rap Back service notify your boss that you got arrested protesting the inauguration?

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A Family Of Five

Two men in Brazil adopt three half brothers and overcome a series of racial and social barriers to create a new family.

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The 48 Questions The FBI Uses To Determine If Someone Is A Likely Terrorist

The FBI is using a score based on “Indicators of Mobilization to Violence,” despite evidence that radicalization is a highly individual process.

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Her Father Championed Jewish Refugees, Now She Finances The Anti-Muslim...

Nina Rosenwald is underwriting the push to keep Muslims fleeing violence in the Middle East from entering the Western world. Her father was a great humanitarian.

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How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped The NSA Spy On The Whole World

Palantir is flexible and powerful enough to accommodate the requirements of any organization that needs to process large amounts of both personal and abstract data — including governments around the...

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How To Secretly Run A Rogue Government Twitter Account

The Intercept's security expert Micah Lee breaks down how to run a rogue account while keeping your identity safe.

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The Fire On Harvard Avenue

After 16 years of fighting, Angela Garcia took a plea deal in the arson death of her children. Did prosecutors know their case was fatally flawed?

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Solving A Louisiana Town's Medical Mystery

For decades, people living next to the neoprene plant in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, have felt they suffered more than their share of illnesses. And sure enough, they had.

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Arkansas' Disturbing History Of Assembly-Line Killing

If Arkansas carries out seven executions this month, it will continue a long tradition of experimentation, torture, and secrecy in the name of justice.

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Snowden Documents Reveal The Gory Details Of A 2001 US-China Spy Plane Crash

What really happened in 2001 when China brought down a US military spy plane? A secret report from the Snowden archive provides details.

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Republicans Sell Access To Congressional Staffers, Flouting Cardinal Ethics Rule

Documents show that the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee are both offering donors meetings with legislative staff.

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How Japan And The NSA Made Secret Deals To Expand Global Surveillance

Top-secret documents reveal the complex relationship the NSA has maintained with Japan over a period of more than six decades.

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Uber Is Ignoring Its Female Drivers

Discouraging and investigating sexual harassment against female drivers has not been Uber's priority, they say.

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Birth Of A Radical

Raised in a liberal part of Los Angeles, Julia Hahn showed little interest in politics until graduating from college and landing jobs with Laura Ingraham and Breitbart News and becoming a disciple of...

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NYU Accidentally Exposed A Military Code-Breaker To The Entire Internet

“The fact that this software, these spec sheets, and all the manuals to go with it were sitting out in the open for anyone to copy is just simply mind blowing."

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The Bizarre Story Behind The FBI's Fake Bundy Family Documentary

The FBI spent almost a year making a fake documentary, trying to get Cliven Bundy, his family, and their supporters to incriminate themselves on tape.

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Facebook Won't Say If They'll Use Your Brain Activity For Advertisements

Facebook is apparently working on a means of using your brain as an input device. Such technology is still many years off, as is, apparently, Facebook’s willingness to publicly think through its very...

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Even Elizabeth Warren Gets Harassed By Debt Collectors — And It’s About To...

The multibillion-dollar debt collection industry is looking to have restrictions on its work lifted by the Trump administration.

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Top Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election

A top-secret National Security Agency report details a months-long Russian hacking effort against the US election infrastructure.

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Texas Couple Exonerated 25 Years After Being Convicted Of Lurid Crimes That...

The 1992 prosecution of Fran and Dan Keller came amid the mass hysteria known as the Satanic Panic. The couple was formally exonerated Tuesday in Austin.

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