There are a growing number of medical marijuana dispensaries across the United States and a majority of Americans who support legalization. But two critics of the drug said the science points to serious problems with pot.
Declassified Records Trace U.S. Monitoring and Analyses of a Critical Area of Cold War Competition2/5/2015
Washington, DC, Posted February 4, 2015 -- During much of the Cold War Soviet space activities -- civilian and military -- were a major focus of U.S. intelligence collection and analysis. As one of the key areas of technological competition with Moscow -- one where the Soviet Union jumped to an early lead in some space activities -- the space race generated profound concern in Washington over the need to understand and respond to new developments. To that end, U.S. analysts resorted to the full-spectrum of intelligence techniques -- from assorted forms of technical collection to scrutinizing Soviet documentary films on the flights of Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov (to obtain data on the USSR's closely guarded manned space launch facilities).
Ambassador Prudence Bushnell's Personal Notebooks provide unique window into the making of US Foreign Policy during the Rwandan Genocide
Follow Bushnell's detailed notes of the unfolding genocide, as the Diplomat tasked with stopping the violence while receiving limited policy options from Washington and New York In June of 2012, a 22-year-old man was arrested in the Washington, D.C. area, for trying to rob a bank. If you read the news report of the failed heist, well, it doesn’t sound like anything special:
What if a computer could predict your behavior and understand your personality better than your coworkers, friends, siblings, and even your spouse do?
According to researchers from the University of Cambridge and Stanford University, it's already possible - by studying your Facebook likes. Police were told to knock with their hands, not with their boots.
That's one story of a swatting incident safely averted, thanks to a network launched on Friday that tipped off police a week ahead of 9 January, when they received a bogus message about a "cylinder thing with duct tape wrapped around it" that was supposedly to be found within a would-be victim's house. The network, Crash Override, is the brainchild of Zoe Quinn, game developer and ground-zero doxing victim of #gamergate. US experts are scratching their heads after finding a more than 130-year-old Wild West rifle leaning against a Juniper tree in a remote area of a national park.
The Winchester Model 1873 firearm was found in Great Basin National Park in Nevada by a park employee, Eva Jensen, who happened to be working in the area with an archaeology team. It looks like 2015 is shaping up to be the year when Catholic conservatives declare war on Pope Francis.
We heard the first rumblings last fall, when the preliminary draft of a statement produced by the extraordinary Synod on the Family inspired New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to warn ominously about the possibility of a schism in the church if the Vatican loosens doctrinal strictures against divorced (and remarried) lay people receiving the sacrament of Communion. A little present from Big Brother
If you want to release something no one will pay attention to, what time's better than Christmas Eve? At least, that appeared to be the National Security Agency's thinking. Last night, the NSA released reports detailing all the times they've illegally spied on American citizens. Ho ho ho Los Alamos Scientist Once Advised a U.S. Sentry to Shoot at and Disable Nukes on West German Aircraft if There Was a Danger of Unauthorized Use
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