The "valve turner" protesters will be allowed to present a necessity defense for their protest, which consisted of shutting off a pipeline.

3/4 of the biggest 500 US corporations have foreign subsidiaries. If Republicans make a bigger tax break for income of those subsidiaries, they will use accounting tricks to run all their profits through them.

Somalis marched through Mogadishu to demand more efforts to defeat al-Shabaab.

If the people turn strongly against that organization, they may have a chance of defeating it.

Whistleblower Protections in USA Liberty Act Not Enough.

The only adequate protection for a whistleblower who tells us the government's dirty secrets is if the government cannot identify the whistleblower.

Kenyan election commissioner Roselyn Akombe has fled to the US and says that it is impossible for the coming repeat election to be free and fair.

The leader of the opposition has refused to participate, for the same reason.