The Washington Post reports that the NSA and FBI are tapping directly into the servers of 9 Internet companies to track people's movements and contacts.

Both houses of the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill restricting the use of drones in surveillance.

Sen. Rand Paul will introduce a bill aiming to guarantee that Fourth Amendment protections are not violated by any government entity.

A federal judge has overruled the refusal of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to intervene on behalf of a ten-year-old girl in need of a life-saving transplant.

A California doctor treks around the world in 40 days to uncover the tragic consequences of banning DDT.

In what President Obama has called "the most transparent administration in history," a secret order from a secret court, authorizing the secret collection of untold millions of Americans' phone records, was defended Thursday by a White House official speaking anonymously.

A 1972 insecticide ban on DDT literally causes the deaths of about a million people per year, though an extensive investigation by the U.S. EPA found that DDT is safe.

In a remarkably candid assessment of the IMF's failure to rescue Greece from its follies, the IMF staff's report still misses the most important lesson of all: Free people left alone will find solutions to their problems.

Four years after voting to allow openly homosexual clergy, the four million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has elected its first openly homosexual bishop.

Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence officer accused of “aiding the enemy” by leaking government documents to WikiLeaks, is finally on trial this week. by Alex Newman