Politics Stories for 2016

U.S. Curtails Federal Election Observers 180
Did Armenia Censor Facebook? 25
New Study Shows Why Big Pharma Hates Medical Marijuana 416
Energy Prices Skyrocket in South Australia 269
Paypal Founder Peter Thiel To Speak At Trump's Republican Convention 268
Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks 284
Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet 177
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt 153
How President Jimmy Carter Saved The Space Shuttle 237
145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' 360
Donald Trump To Announce Mike Pence As Vice-Presidential Running Mate 413
'Fourth Amendment Caucus' Aims To Fight Government Surveillance 212
Theresa May Becomes UK's 'Spy Queen' and New Prime Minister 238
Guccifer 2.0 Drops New Documents 106
Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton 644
Congress Is Trying To Expand The Patriot Act 174
EFF Delivers 210,000 Signatures Opposing Trans-Pacific Partnership 101
Uber Investor Suggests Addressing Police Killings With an App 311
Is A Rational Nation Ruled By Science A Terrible Idea? 609
17,000 Leaked Names From DNC Hack Appear To Be Ticket Purchasers 25
Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet 296
FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email 289
Entire Federal Government Exempt From Robocall Laws, FCC Rules 188
DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton 801
Theranos Faces Congressional Inquiry Over Faulty Blood Tests 186
America Expands Its Freedom of Information Act 95
The Fight To Save the Australian Digital Archive Trove 87
Israel Accuses Facebook Of Aiding Terrorists and Hampering Police Investigations 278
Will Brexit Hurt International Cyber-Security? 197
Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband 173
Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates 470
Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? 359
Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House 213
Microsoft President Brad Smith: Computer Science Is Space Race of Today 171
Guccifer 2.0 Calls DNC Hack His "Personal Project," Mocks Security Firms 114
Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition 321
US Efforts To Regulate Encryption Have Been Flawed, Government Report Finds 110
Clinton Tech Plan Reads Like Silicon Valley Wish List 355
President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden Before Leaving Office 383
Google and Facebook May Be Suppressing 'Extremist' Speech With Copyright Scanners 156
New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor 301
BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union 1592
Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off 268
Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy 206
Senate Rejects FBI Bid For Warrantless Access To Internet Browsing Histories 224
DNC Hacker Releases Clinton Foundation Documents 156
Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans Set Up Vote To Expand FBI Spying 660
IBM Engineer Builds a Harry Potter Sorting Hat Using 'Watson' AI 117
Political Party's Videoconference System Hacked, Allowed Spying On Demand 32
The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson 412
Let's Drug Test The Rich Before Approving Tax Deductions, Says US Congresswoman 760
DNC Hacker Releases Trump Opposition File 421
Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair 301
Texas Traffic Signs Hacked With Anti-Trump and Anti-Hillary Messages 98
Russian Government Hackers Penetrated DNC, Stole Opposition Research On Donald Trump 160
Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton 742
Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? 1144
Playing Politics With Agile Projects 145
NSA Couldn't Hack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone; Now Working On Exploiting IoT 90
DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant 176
There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton 142
China Plans Massive Sea Lab 10,000 Feet Underwater In the South China Sea 101
BlackBerry Hands Over User Data To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' Insider Says 144
Ted Cruz Proposes Bill To Keep US From Giving Up Internet Governance Role 280
The Web's Creator Thinks We Need a New One That Governments Can't Control 240
Julian Assange: Google is 'Directly Engaged' In Hillary Clinton's Campaign 477
Tech Firms Say FBI Wants Browsing History Without Warrant 145
BuzzFeed Ends $1.3M Advertising Deal With RNC Over Donald Trump 403
FBI Developing Software To Track, Sort People By Their Tattoos 125
FBI Kept Demanding Email Records Despite DOJ Saying It Needed a Warrant 102
It's Time To Ignore Petty Politics and Focus On 'Transformative' Tech: Eric Schmidt 141
Yahoo Becomes First Company To Disclose FBI National Security Letters 74
Stephen Hawking Calls Trump A 'Demagogue' Who Appeals 'To The Lowest Common Denominator' 751
John McAfee Denied Libertarian Party Nomination For President 245
Smartphone Surveillance Tech Used To Target Anti-Abortion Ads At Pregnant Women 260
Scott Walker Rents Out Email and Donor Lists To Pay Campaign Debt 113
State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server 371
Facebook Is Tweaking Trending Topics To Counter Charges of Bias 157
Hacker Phineas Fisher is Trying To Start a 'Hack Back' Political Movement 123
Judge Orders 'Intentionally Deceptive' DOJ Lawyers To Take Remedial Ethics Class 185
Spy Chief: Foreign Hackers May Be Targeting Presidential Candidates 91
Fake Hacker Found Guilty Following Gutsy Mitt Romney Extortion Scheme 108
CIA Watchdog 'Mistakenly' Destroyed Its Only Copy Of A Senate Torture Report 209
Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram 375
The Intercept Releases First Batch Of New Docs Leaked By Snowden 55
Anonymous Begins Teaching Hacktivism on IRC 52
Wendy's Plans To Automate 6,000 Restaurants With Self-Service Ordering Kiosks 921
Mark Zuckerberg: 'No Evidence' Facebook Staff Suppressed Stories With Conservative Viewpoints 346
Internal Docs Show Human Intervention at Almost Every Stage Of Facebook's News Operation 215
FBI Has Sights On Larger Battle Over Encryption After Apple Feud 171
AAA Study: Blood THC Levels After Smoking Pot Are Useless In Defining 'Too High To Drive' 455
Harvard Scientist: Rio Olympics Could Spark 'Full Blown Global Health Disaster' 147
Renewables Fastest-Growing Energy Sources, Feds Say 70
Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress 179
Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel To Back Trump As GOP Presidential Candidate 281
'Technology Will Replace the Need For Big Government' 247
Senate GOP Launches Inquiry Into Facebook's News Curation 357
Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News 639
Uber and Lyft Spend $8.2 Million To Lose Fingerprint Election, Vow To Leave Austin 335
Amazon Bows To Pressure To Bring Same-Day Deliveries To Poor Areas 178
Panama Papers Source Breaks Silence Over 'Scale Of Injustices' 114
Elon Musk: 'We Need a Revolt Against the Fossil Fuel Industry' 530
Judge Rodney Gilstrap Sees A Quarter Of The Nation's Patent Cases 85
Cupertino's Mayor: Apple 'Abuses Us' By Not Paying Taxes 284
Hacker Guccifer Claims He Easily and Repeatedly Broke Into Hillary Clinton's Email Server 416
John Kasich To Drop Out, Leaving Trump as GOP Nominee 605
Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race 879
Snowden: 'Governments Can Reduce Our Dignity To That Of Tagged Animals' 110
3 Years Ago, Microsoft Said Tech Should Fund K-12 CS Education. What Changed? 102
Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US 168
White House Releases Report On How To Spur Smart-Gun Technology 313
Cable Industry Threatens To Sue If FCC Tries To Bring Competition To Cable Set Top Boxes 100
Dissension Grows Inside Anonymous Because Of Political Propaganda 132
North Korea Launches Two Midrange Missiles, Both Tests Fail 73
Bernie Sanders' Second Life Headquarters Besieged by Trump-Supporting Swastikas 230
With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question 327
House Passes Email Privacy Act, Requiring Warrants For Obtaining Emails 61
There Will Be A Huge New 'Panama Papers' Data Dump 110
Half Of Americans Think Presidential Nominating System 'Rigged' 338
A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows 1080
2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign 702
Symantec: Cruz and Kasich Campaign Apps May Expose Sensitive Data 32
Hacker Collective Attacks KKK Sites 191
Greece's Former Finance Minister Explains Why A Universal Basic Income Could Save Us 866
The Android Administration: Google's Relationship With the Obama White House 47
Spy Chief Pressed For Number Of Americans Ensnared In Data Espionage 34
Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls 429
Is the $400 Billion F-35's 'Brain' Broken? 175
US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill 581
Blackmail: Obama Under Pressure To Declassify Secret 9/11 Report 354
Twitter Appoints Chief In China With Former Chinese Military Ties 17
Bill Gates Calls On the US Government To Invest More In Research and Development 154
Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site 476
US: North Korean Missile Launch a 'Catastrophic' Failure 192
Facebook Promises It Won't Mess With Voters' Minds 114
Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules 527
Obama Urges Opening Cable TV Boxes To Competition 75
Sarah Palin Says 'Bill Nye Is As Much A Scientist As I Am' 634
Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency 387
Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released 314
World's Largest Private Coal Company Files For Bankruptcy 235
About 40,000 Unionized Verizon Workers Walk Off the Job 189
House Panel Approves Bill To Protect Older Email From Gov't Snooping 78
Obama Is Forgiving the Student Loans of Nearly 400,000 Permanently Disabled People 406
In the Age of Trump, Tech CEOs Cast Themselves As the New Statesmen 180
How George W. Bush and NASA Saved SpaceX From Financial Ruin 224
Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump 623
Director Brennan: CIA Won't Waterboard Again, Even If Ordered By Future President 319
Donald Trump's 'Nuclear' Uncle 148
Every Voter In The Philippines Exposed In Massive Data Breach 28
Clinton Campaign Chair: 'The American People Can Handle The Truth' On UFOs 287
Small and Heavy Arms Traded On Facebook By Libyan Militants 60
Putin Says Panama Papers Part of US Plot to Weaken Russia 207
Icelandic Prime Minister Resigns After Panama Data Leak 228
Risks To Human Health Will Accelerate As Climate Changes, White House Warns 231
TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right 334
Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online 44
Taliban App's Publication Points To Holes In Google's App Review Process 80
Half of Scotland's Energy Consumption Came From Renewables Last Year 218
Panama Papers: Data Leak Exposes Massive Official Corruption 364
How To Hack an Election 60
Anonymous's War on Trump Described as Successful and Disastrous 201
No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China 83
California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation 940
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Endorsed by Major Tech Group 93
ACLU Shows How the Apple-FBI Fight Was About Much More Than One Phone 155
Valve Loses Australian Court Battle Over Steam 178
Why ISIS Is Winning The Online Propaganda War 168
US Says It Would Use 'Court System' Again To Defeat Encryption 232
China Proposes Foreign Domain Name Censorship 60
AT&T Wants $100 Million From California Taxpayers For Aging DSL 224
Researcher Measures Brain Reactions To Donald Trump 290
Court Stops FCC's Latest Attempt To Lower Prison Phone Rates 197
33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention 663
NJ Legislator Proposes Fine For Walking While Phone-Distracted 194
Slashdot Asks: Do You Support Nuclear Energy? 485
Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" 556
Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You 192
Trump Gives Displaced IT Workers Attention, and He's Not Alone 688
Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century 242
Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads 644
Scientists Propose Biodiversity Lab To Redeem Guantanamo Prison Camp 170
Unprecedented DDoS Attack At Swedish Government, Media Outlets 125
Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels 740
Apple Hires Corporate Security Chief Amid Legal Battle With FBI 61
Netflix CEO Says Blocking Proxy Services Is Maturation of Internet TV 191
US Government Pushed Many Tech Firms To Hand Over Source Code 151
Apple Employees, If Ordered To Unlock iPhone, Might Quit 417
NY Bill Would Provide Tax Credit For Open Source Contributors 54
Anonymous Doxes Trump, But Leaked Info Underwhelms 242
Emails Show NSA Rejected Hillary Clinton's Request For Secure Smartphone 229
N. Korea Launches Ballistic Missile 123
'Chilling Effect' of Mass Surveillance Is Silencing Dissent Online, Study Says 266
Tim Cook Talks About Encryption, Right to Privacy, Public Safety, and DOJ 135
The Law Is Clear: the FBI Cannot Make Apple Rewrite Its OS 367
Obama Nominates Merrick Garland For Supreme Court 629
Your Data Footprint Is Affecting Your Life In Ways You Can't Even Imagine 191
Apple Files Final Response In San Bernardino iPhone Case 250
India Scans a Billion Irises In Interest of National Security 50
During Sunshine Week, MuckRock Looks At Some of the All-Time Greatest Redactions 42
Sea Rise Could Force Millions In Florida To Adapt Or Flee 421
Obama Rejects New Atlantic Ocean Oil Drilling 176
DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code 596
Microsoft Opens Up Azure Cloud in Germany Even It Can't Access 98
AT&T Defeats Class Action In Unlimited Data Throttling Case 63
Anonymous Declare 'Total War' On Donald Trump, Threaten To 'Dismantle His Campaign' 741
Obama Administration Supports Recycling Code and Open Source 100
Personalized Learning: the Best Education Or the Worst? 143
Free Software Supporter and Canadian MP David Graham Talks OSS In Government 25
Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% 819
US Says North Korean Submarine Missing 167
Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT 301
Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis 180
Stephen Hawking and 150 Royal Society Scientists: Brexit Disaster For UK 361
FBI Quietly Changes Its Privacy Rules For Accessing NSA Data On Americans 49
Hacker 'Guccifer,' Who Uncovered Clinton's Private Emails, To Be Extradited To US 210
Anonymous Claims Twitter Is Suspending 'OpISIS' Member Accounts 75
Eric Schmidt Gets A Job At The Pentagon 71
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dead At 94 216
Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery 120
Anonymous Hacks Donald Trump's Voicemail and Leaks the Messages 314
Why You May Not Like Ted Cruz's Face, According To Science 203
Tracking Caucusgoers By Their Cell Phones 43
Ted Cruz Proposes Reviving SDI To Counter N. Korean Nuclear Threat 349
Kim To N. Korean Military: Be Ready To Use Nuclear Weapons At Any Time 321
French Bill Carries 5-Year Jail Sentence For Company Refusals To Decrypt Data For Police 190
Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server 592
$500K NSF Grant Boosted Girls' CS Participation At Obama Daughters' $37K/Yr HS 187
Iraq's Mosul Dam Could Burst At Any Time 198
FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates 178
ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages 162
Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally 707
Disney Asking Employees To Help Fund Copyright Lobbying 172
Former Disney IT Worker's Complaint To Congress: How Can You Allow This? 605
Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? 172
How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear 532
Turkish Gov't Retaliates After Hackers Release Police Data Via Twitter 23
ISIS Makes Direct Threats Against Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey 305
Arizona County Attorney To Ditch iPhones Over Apple Dispute With FBI 345
Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma 428
Drones Under 2kg May Be Set Free Under Forthcoming FAA Rules 103
Australia's Major Parties Vote Against Encryption In Wake of Apple FBI Case 172
World's First Modular Smart Phone Hits the Market 139
It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers 558
US Asks VW For Electric Cars 250
Edward Snowden To Keynote This Weekend's Free State Project Liberty Forum 73
N. Carolina Senator Drafting Bill To Criminalize Apple's Refusal To Aid Decryption 296
Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? 212
Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature 228
Preserving Cuba's Classic Cars 83

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