Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt: Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor offenses.

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Departing from NIE, Washington says Iran still pursuing bomb | Iran news | Jerusalem Post

Departing from an intelligence estimate published just over a year ago, the Obama administration maked it clear that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

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Not Your Father's Censorship - ChronicleReview.com

Ironically for the American pioneers who expected the Internet to foster unprecedented information freedom, its rapid and ubiquitous adoption has created a flexible and effective mechanism for thought control.

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Another Mexico - ChronicleReview.com

Story after story depicts a country overrun by out-of-control drug wars and murder, where corrupt police officers trip over beheaded victims more often than they nab perpetrators.

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The New Atlantis » Military Robots and the Laws of War

It has become almost a cliché to say that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have proved "how technology doesn't have a big place in any doctrine of future war."

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BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Burn baby burn

By 2020 the UK must more than halve the amount of rubbish it buries, to just 25% of its total waste disposal. Recycling will only go some of the way to ease the burden, but there is an alternative to burying - burning.

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Russia to start Iran nuclear plant by year end

Russia plans to start up a nuclear reactor at Iran's Bushehr plant by the end of the year, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation said on Thursday.

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Daschle received speaking fees from groups opposing patient privacy

Tom Daschle, President Obama's nominee for secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, received speaking fees last year from two organizations that are aligned with health industry groups that opposed strong patient privacy protections in the health care section of the …

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Audit: CBP weak on IT security

Information technology security remains a significant deficiency at U.S. Customs and Border Protection but is no longer a material weakness, according to an independent audit released today by Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner.

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Al-Qaeda damaged by arrest of 'rape and suicide bomb' woman

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