Some buses in the US record passengers' conversations — all conversations.

If the state recorded everything everyone says and does, that would be perfect for catching all criminals, except those that the state doesn't want to catch. It would also be tyranny. Catching criminals is not as important as some other goals.

There's a plan to dredge the US's only barrier reef in order to improve access to the port of Fort Lauderdale.

Fort Lauderdale is less than 3 meters above sea level — about two feet higher than Miami, which already floods regularly. If James Hansen is right about projected sea level rise, Fort Lauderdale won't even be there for much longer. Any investment in it is folly.

Radovan Karadžić Sentenced to 40 Years for Genocide at Srebrenica.

The International Labor Organisation is moving, slowly, against Qatar for encouraging enslavement of workers.

Texas Mothers Jailed Five Days in Louisiana over Two Hot Dogs (which they say they didn't take).

Just because they pled not-guilty, they were going to be jailed for two months. The prosecutor defended this pointless harm by saying they do it all the time.