Thousands of criminal convictions were based on bogus hair comparison "forensic analysis" by done the FBI.

Reportedly other kind of forensic analysis also turned out to be bogus.

US citizens: Support extending the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Monument.

The only reliable way to get a good grade on US standardized tests is to get the latest textbooks from the three publishers that make the tests.

Wealthy areas can afford to provide these books. Poor areas can't. So the tests are an excuse to call poor children stupid, and a scam to benefit those publishers.

Alan Gross, sent by the US to try to give Cuban Jews internet access and imprisoned for it, aims to die within a year if not released.

I have little general sympathy for US meddling, which is often done with an evil intent, but Cuba's interference with people's right to communicate is wrong in any case.

UK activists report that undercover thugs harassed them to become informers. One says thugs threatened to prosecute her if she told about this.