A lawsuit by the Electronic Privacy Information Center pushed the US government to recognize that x-ray body scanners could be dangerous. Now EPIC has made the DHS yield its information on test results and radiation risk estimates for airport body scanners.

Retiring NSA Deputy Director Admits Agency Can't Prove Terrorists Changing Tactics Because of Snowden.

This demonstrates once again pro-surveillance officials' predilection for stretching the truth. Aside from that, the issue is a secondary one. Even if terrorists change their tactics, and even if that helps them a little, they are a secondary threat. A government that surveils everyone and thus eliminates democracy is more dangerous than any independent terrorists.

Global heating has pushed the giant Pine Island Glacier into irreversible melting, and will melt away over the next few decades.

This is expected to raise global sea level by just one centimeter. If only the melting ice were limited to this! However, melting for the whole Antarctic melting is speeding up.

Syria outside Assad's control is a mosaic of mutually hostile militias.

Iran and other countries have worked out the last details of the nuclear agreement, and the implementation will begin on Jan 20 — provided Congress doesn't ruin everything.