ISIS aims to take Baghdad, and it is not clear the Iraqi army can prevent this.

The Iraqi Shi'ites will fight back with their own militias, though.

The coal industry has successfully misled people in a coal region of Australia about how many jobs it supports.

Big US companies are starting to run schools (combined high school and community college), steering people to work for those companies.

This is part of propagating the myth that plenty of job openings exist in the US but people are not trained for them.

The one that's run by Microsoft surely teaches people proprietary software, which is wrong for a school to do.

The International Commission of Jurists says that Venezuela's system of justice is weak because judges lack independence from the executive.

The ICJ has also criticized the judicial system of the coup-installed government of Honduras.

The condemnation of the post-coup regime is stronger in the full report in Spanish.

For First Time, Appeals Court Rules Warrant Is Required For Cell Phone Location Tracking.

More analysis of the basis of this decision.

It's a step forward but it isn't enough. I expect the NSA will still get all of this data about you if you carry a portable tracking device. (I won't!)

What we need is for the system not to start recording your location data without a warrant.