Advice to fracker executives: frighten the public, and find dirt on environmentalists to discredit them personally.

The EFF asked the Library of Congress to make a 3-year DMCA exception for people to repair their own cars.

Of course, these requests for exceptions are all valid; but we should not let them become our focus. The ban on breaking digital handcuffs is fundamentally wrong; it should be replaced with a ban on digital handcuffs.

Families of people killed by Chicago thugs protested demanding a federal investigation of their thug department.

A study found that pollution from burning coal in China causes around 700,000 deaths a year.

The figure given was 670,000, but that's too much precision. The study used statistics from 2012, but since coal use has increased since then, it must be worse.

I estimate around 15 million people die each year in China, which would make coal responsible for around 5% of those deaths.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the Dominican Republic for taking citizenship away from its inhabitants of Haitian descent. In response, the Dominican Republic withdrew from the court.