(satire) *Promising Report Finds Great Pacific Garbage Patch Could Support Full-Scale Ground War By 2040.*

Congress has proposed a law to prohibit setting up AI systems to decide whether to launch nuclear weapons. This is not an imaginary issue: there have been proposals to do just that.

The legal technique of "no federal funds may be used" has a well-known loophole: just find a private source of funds to do the specific job. Thugs have used "police foundations" to negate laws design with that method.

*Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he faces life in jail over terror charges.*

The US Chamber of Commerce pretends to represent small businesses, but half its income comes from donations of over a million dollars.

The pleas of Oklahoma's attorney general that Richard Glossip is innocent were not enough to convince the state's pardon board not to execute him.