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On Capitol Hill, Holder to face questions on AP phone records, IRS scandal

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Sean Sullivan, Rachel Weiner, Juliet Eilperin - May. 15 (News Report) - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to testify on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon, where he is expected to be grilled by lawmakers about the Justice Department’s decision to secretly obtain journalists’ phone records and peppered with questions about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra ...

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As China's social media takes off, Beijing's censorship campaign heats up

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 15 (News Analysis) - A few well-regarded intellectuals known to be critical of the Communist Party have drawn millions of followers on China's ...

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Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Mark Sherman - May. 13 (Special Report) - The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery.

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Rupert Murdoch must step down as News Corporation chair – shareholders

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - May. 09 (News) - Christian Brothers Investment Services demands action to 'dramatically revise corporate governance practices' Dissident shareholders are pressing once more for the media mogul Rupert Murdoch to step down as chairman of News Corporation . Shareholders from the US, UK and Canada filed a resolution on Tuesday, calling for News Corp to appoint an independent chairman. A similar resolution attracted strong support at the media company's annual shareholder meeting last year . The proposal was introduced by Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), which manages $4.6bn for Catholic institutions worldwide. It is backed by the UK's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, with assets of £115bn ($178.9bn), and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, one of Canada's largest institutional investors. In a separate resolution, Nathan Cummings Foundation, an ethical investment group, has called on News Corp to end the dual-class share structure that allows the Murdoch family to control ...

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Drug Agency Lowers Age For Next-Day Birth Control

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Pam Belluck - Apr. 30 (News) - The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would make the most widely known morning-after pill available without a prescription to girls and women ages 15 and older, and also make the pill available on drugstore shelves, instead of keeping it locked up behind pharmacy counters.

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Congress pushes for ‘Internet Freedom’ as U.N. showdown looms

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - Apr. 22 (News Analysis) - The House is pushing forward in an effort to block a United Nations-related group from potentially allowing countries to censor the Internet, before an international showdown this fall.

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Koch Brothers Making Play for Tribune's Newspapers

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Amy Chozick - Apr. 21 (News Report) - Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged …

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A 'like' for linguistics: Can social media save Mexico's unwritten languages?

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - Many indigenous languages alive in Mexico today don't have formal written systems, but a growing number of computer-savvy young people want to Facebook and tweet in their native tongue. ...

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French mother on trial for son Jihad’s T-shirt

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Edward Cody - Mar. 23 (News Analysis) - A T-shirt worn by a 3-year-old nursery-schooler named Jihad has led to an unusual and politically charged criminal trial here that tests the limits of free speech — and common sense — in a France increasingly ill at ease with its growing Muslim population.

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Judge releases Somali journalist jailed for interviewing alleged rape victim

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 17 (News Report) - Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim served two months for talking to Lul Ali Osman Barake who claimed rape by men in military fatigues A Somali journalist jailed for interviewing an alleged gang-rape victim spoke of his relief on Sunday after a judge ordered his release. Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim had been sentenced to a year in prison , later reduced to six months, for talking to Lul Ali Osman Barake about her claim that she was raped by five men in military fatigues. "I am happy today like the day I was born," Ibrahim, 25, told the Guardian as he was transported in a four-wheel drive vehicle from Mogadishu central prison to his home. The case has prompted international condemnation over how Somalia's fledgling institutions approach victims of sexual violence and freedom of the press. Barake had also been sentenced to a year in prison but this was quashed on appeal. After her release Barake spoke of her anger with the police and courts over the way she had been treated. "I was a victim and I ...

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Bribery Allegations Surfaced Against WSJ in China

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Devlin Barett, Evan Perez - Mar. 17 (News Analysis) - The Justice Department last year opened an investigation into allegations that employees at The Wall Street Journal bribed Chinese officials for information. A search by the Journal's parent company found no evidence to support the claim.

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China's Newest Stealth Fighter May Head to Sea, State Media Says

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By David Axe - Mar. 14 (News Report) - China's Newest Stealth Fighter May Head to Sea, State Media Says

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Hugo Chávez: poor boy from the plains who became leftwing figurehead

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Rory Carroll - Mar. 06 (Special Report) - No one imagined it would end like this. A ravaged body, a hospital bed, a shroud of silence, invisible. Hugo Chávez's life blazed drama, a command performance, and friend and foe alike always envisaged an operatic finale.

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Chávez Dies, Leaving a Bitterly Divided Venezuela

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By William Neuman - Mar. 05 (Breaking News) - President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of sight in hospitals in Havana and Caracas.

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British Media to Challenge Secrecy Bid in Litvinenko Case

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Alan Cowell - Feb. 26 (News Analysis) - The government wants to limit the release of information to an inquiry into the poisoning death of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former KGB officer, the BBC reported.

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Ecuador president Rafael Correa re-elected again

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Feb. 18 (News Report) - President Rafael Correa celebrated winning his third term in office before the official results were announced Ecuador's president Rafael Correa has been elected to a third term in power. The leftwing incumbent, who first took office in 2007 and was re-elected in 2009, won 58% of the vote, well ahead of his closest challenger, former banker Guillermo Lasso, with 24%. A beaming Correa appeared on state TV hugging jubilant supporters at the Carondelet presidential palace less than an hour after polls closed. "This victory is yours. It belongs to our families, to our wife, to our friends, our neighbours, the entire nation," Correa said. "We are only here to serve you. Nothing for us. Everything for you, a people who have become dignified in being free." The 48-year-old Correa has raised living standards for the lower classes and widened the welfare state with region-leading social spending but critics including international human rights groups call him a bully. Correa has brought ...

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Israelis puzzle over mysterious death of Mossad’s ‘Prisoner X’ Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/13/182979/israelis-puzzle-over-mysterious.html#storylink=cpy

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Frenkel - Feb. 15 (News Report) - Zygier was kept in a cell known as Wing 15 that had been designed for Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Ari Shamay, a lawyer for Amir who visited him once in the cell, described it as a "four-by-four room, with next to nothing inside but a bed, shower and toilet." Cameras were fixed on the room and monitored 24 hours a day. Reports in Israeli newspapers have said the room had special sensors that monitored temperature and even heartbeat, though Israeli officials wouldn’t confirm those details. Israeli human rights groups have begun asking how, under those conditions, a prisoner manages to fashion a noose and hang himself before guards are able to intervene. On Wednesday, Israeli blogs speculated that the story of Zygier’s suicide was yet another cover-up, designed to disguise a more gruesome death

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Shahbag protesters versus the Butcher of Mirpur

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tahmima Anam - Feb. 13 (News) - Abdul Quader Mollah has finally been convicted of war crimes committed in Bangladesh in 1971. Now a huge popular protest in Dhaka's Shahbag district is demanding the death penalty It all began with a victory sign. When Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary-general of Bangladesh's Jamaat-e-Islami party, emerged from the supreme court on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 February, he turned to the press waiting outside, smiled, and made a victory sign. An odd reaction for a man just sentenced to life in prison. Mollah smiled because for him, a man convicted of beheading a poet, raping an 11-year-old girl and shooting 344 people during the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence – charges that have earned him the nickname the Butcher of Mirpur – the life sentence came as a surprise . Earlier this month, a fellow accused, Abul Kalam Azad, who is reputed to have fled to Pakistan, was sentenced to death in absentia . When Mollah emerged from the courthouse, a group of online activists and bloggers ...

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Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NICOLE PERLROTH - Jan. 31 (News Report) - SAN FRANCISCO — For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees. The New York Times published an article in October abo

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Iran's 'morality police' crack down on coffee shops

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Popular hangout for Tehrani intellectuals closes after refusing to install surveillance cameras to monitor customers As the June presidential election in Iran draws near, authorities have stepped up political surveillance by ordering coffee shop owners to install cameras on their premises and turn over the recordings on demand. Cameras have proliferated in Tehran coffee shops since last summer. "Most people thought they were part of the security systems installed by owners to protect against theft," one Tehrani said. However the cameras are now required to be on during work hours and police have demanded access to the tapes, according to several business owners. The practice became public when Café Prague, one of the most popular coffee houses in Tehran, closed down last week after its owners refused authorities' orders to install a video system. Café Prague, a stone's throw from Tehran University in the heart of the capital, has been a sanctuary for students, activists and young ...

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Jihadists’ Surge in North Africa Reveals Grim Side of Arab Spring

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By ROBERT F. WORTH - Jan. 19 (News Report) - As the uprising closed in around him, the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi warned that if he fell, chaos and holy war would overtake North Africa. “Bin Laden’s people would come to impose ransoms by land and sea,” he told reporters. “

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Search Option From Facebook Is Privacy Test

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Somini Sengupta, Claire Cain Miller - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - Whether Facebook’s users will continue to divulge even more private details will determine whether so-called social search is the next step in how we navigate the online world.

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Aaron's Law

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Lawrence Lessig - Jan. 16 (Special Report) - A week ago, Aaron Swartz -- social activist, geek genius -- took his own life. Facing the choice between a federal prosecutor who insisted that he either accept the label "felon" and go to jail or fight a million-dollar lawsuit against 13 felony indictments, Aaron took the third option, and hanged himself. And with that we all lost an incredible soul, one who had literally spent half of his 26-year-old life doing nothing except working for (at least his conception of) the public good. Aaron's alleged "crime" was that he used MIT's network to access a database of academic journal articles (JSTOR) and download millions of those articles to his laptop computer. He didn't "hack" the network to secure those downloads: MIT is a famously open network. He didn't crack any special password system to get behind JSTOR's digital walls. He simply figured out how JSTOR was filing the articles that he wanted, and wrote a simple script to quickly gather those articles and then copy them to his machine.

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NBC’s Gregory won’t be charged for displaying ammunition clip on TV

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Hermann - Jan. 12 (News) - The host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” David Gregory, will not be arrested or charged with a crime for waving what he claimed was a high-capacity ammunition gun clip on national television last month.

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Prosecutor: No gun charges for Gregory

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:41:00 -0800

The Politico - By Mackenzie Weinger - Jan. 11 (News) - NBC’s David Gregory is off the hook for showing a high-capacity gun magazine on “Meet the Press” and will not be prosecuted, D.C.’s attorney general announced on Friday.

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