If you live in the USA and you’re worried about someone reading embarrassing emails in your Gmail inbox, you may soon be able to relax a little. In case an amendment proposed by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) passes, police will need a warrant to get access to your email.
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Never, perhaps, in the postwar decades was the situation in the world as explosive and hence, more difficult and unfavorable, as in the first half of the 1980s.
–Mikhail Gorbachev, February 1986
US-Soviet relations had come full circle by 1983–from confrontation in the early postwar decades, to detente in the late 1960s and 1970s, and back to confrontation in the early 1980s. Europeans were declaring the outbreak of “Cold War II.” French President Francois Mitterrand compared the situation that year to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and the 1948 face-off over Berlin. On this side of the Atlantic, the doyen of Soviet-watchers, George Kennan, exclaimed that the new superpower imbroglio had the “familiar characteristics, the unfailing characteristics, of a march toward war–that and nothing else.”
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In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, students whose reading skills are below grade level are suing the state of Michigan and their school district. If successful, the lawsuit could spawn others nationwide.
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The technology could have applications in gambling, healthcare, and dating.
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The lower house of the German parliament, the Bundestag, sending dozens of European Union documents back to Brussels, slowing down crucial political work, because MPs can’t make any sense of the translations.
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The technology decides if the driver is sad, happy, angry or neutral, before assessing how distracted they are likely to be as a result. It can then intervene with safety reminders if required.
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The FBI once taught its agents that they can “bend or suspend the law” as they wiretap suspects. But the bureau says it didn’t really mean it, and has now removed the document from its counterterrorism training curriculum, calling it an “imprecise” instruction.
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A public library in Virginia is sponsoring a program for children to read books. . . to dogs. The Alexandria, Virginia, library “Paws to Read” program has children in grades 1-6 reading books to dogs.
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Obama relied particularly heavily upon Bell’s major work, Race, Racism, and American Law (1973). Now in its sixth edition, the book lays out Bell’s Critical Race Theory, which is based on the Alinskyite presumption that all of law is a construct–not of justice, but of power exercised by whites against blacks.
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Indie publisher Smashwords has notified contributing authors, publishers, and literary agents that they would no longer be providing a platform for certain forms of sexually explicit fiction.
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