Colombia's supreme court has banned mining and drilling in the high-altitude plains which provide most of the country's water supply.

The FBI unwittingly stopped Apple spyware from operating automatically in the shooting suspect's iPhone.

Sanders did much better in Nevada than was expected a few weeks ago, and got almost as many delegates as Clinton.

The mainstream media are spinning this as "Clinton won".

Michael Moore's latest film shows what's missing in the US political establishment (including the mainstream media): the idea that issues matter, not only "winning".

Now that a public inquiry will be held into UK thugs' practice of infiltrating dissident groups (often by getting sexually involved with women in them), the thugs want the inquiry to be secret rather than public, to "protect" these infiltrators.

Right-wingers want to repress transsexuals with laws requiring them to use the toilets for the sex they were born with.

There is a real dispute here, between male-to-female transsexuals who want to use toilets for females, and other females who feel uncomfortable with people in their toilets that are rather similar to males. Both of them have good reasons, and I don't see how to satisfy them both. I don't have a solution to offer, but these laws clearly only do harm.