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Pentagon Claim That War Crimes Must Be "Intentional" Called "Flatly Wrong"

Supreme Court Quietly Approves Rule to Give FBI 'Sprawling' Hacking Powers

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday quietly approved a rule change that would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for any target using anonymity software like Tor to browse the internet. Absent action by U.S. Congress, the...

One Ugly Summer: Is Latest Trump Rally Violence Just Taste of What's to Come?

Jon Queally, staff writer

One ugly summer. If events in California outside a Donald Trump rally on...

Lawsuit Challenges State's "Immoral, Unjust, Illegal" Law Banning Local Wage Increases

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Workers in Birmingham have launched a federal civil rights lawsuit charging...

As More American Boots Hit the Ground in Syria, U.S. Parses “Boots” and “Ground”

Sanders Calls for 50-State Strategy to 'Revitalize American Democracy'

'Outrageous Targeting' as MSF-Supported Hospital in Syria Bombed

Noam Chomsky: Young Bernie Sanders Supporters are a "Mobilized Force That Could Change the Country"

Why is Congress Trying to Give Military Half a Wildlife Refuge it Doesn't Want?

Watch: The New Trailer for Oliver Stone's Biopic of Edward Snowden

Dark Money Group Spends $58,000 Attacking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

For First Time Ever, A Majority of People Identify as 'Global Citizens'

The Proliferation of Deoxygenated 'Dead Zones' Threatening Marine Life

Cruelty of Solitary Detention Challenged as Obama Pushes State-Level Reform

'Neutral is Not Acceptable': Nationwide Protests Demand Colleges Go Fossil Free

Taking Page from Israel War Tactics, US Military Employs Controversial 'Roof Knocking'

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Men's Awful Tweets To Women Sportscasters: "One of the Players Should Beat You to Death With Their Hockey Stick Like the Whore You Are"

In an often hatefully misogynistic culture, there's not much worse than the mindless, profane, violent venom often spewed at women sportscasters by online bullies with issues and keyboards to hide behind. Having had enough, two female sports journalists launched #MoreThanMean, a stunningly pointed, pained PSA wherein visibly discomfited guys - not the Tweets' authors - read them messages like, "I hope your boyfriend beats you," then softly, ashamedly add, "Sorry."