*Argentina's [vice president and ex-president] Cristina Fernández sentenced to six years in $1bn fraud case.*

Shocking rare crimes against children create an impulse and a pressure to overprotect children by locking them up. For the children's sake, we must resist that pressure.

New York City is spending a lot of money to prevent a repeat of some of the damage done by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, but the overall effort is far inadequate.

For the longer term, there is no hope of protecting New York City from future inundation with local measures. The only way is to curb global heating.

Biden wants North Carolina to be the Democratic Party's first primary in 2024 so that no progressive candidate can challenge him for the presidential nomination. He is confident of winning heavily there.

The TSA has a "pilot program" to use facial recognition to identify airline passengers. And a second generation coming which will do the matching against a database.

Widespread use of facial recognition enables the sort of tracking that China's pervasive repression is based on. We cannot allow such systems to exist.

For now, you can refuse to participate in the TSA's facial matching. Please refuse! To maintain even a little privacy, we must fight tooth and nail against massive surveillance systems, both new systems like this one and existing systems such as Clearview AI.