Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed tri-partisan legislation, supported by top law-enforcement officials and almost two-thirds of voters, decriminalizing possession of cannabis in the state.

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.