Apple proposes a fingerprint-scanning touch screen — which would make it difficult to use it at all without having your fingerprints taken.

The White House "press corps" is shifting its membership, downgrading mainstream media and inviting trollish extremists.

Imagine calling the New York Times "liberal", and you see how extremist they are.

Some Americans are refusing to pay federal taxes as a protest against the loser.

The really bad things that the US does with its money, such as spending more on the military than all its main rivals put together and bombing people around the world, while bailing out the big banks that are our country's worst enemies, did not start this year.

Mines in Australia are covering up what it will cost to clean up the mines once they are exhausted.

A proposed law in Mexico would ban import of US corn.

This might help Mexican peasants support themselves.