California is in drought, perhaps the worst ever recorded. Little snow has fallen in the US west this winter — it has all gone to the center and east.

Global heating is expected to make the US southwest more arid, so this is just a foretaste.

A woman in India was sentenced to be raped as a punishment for not paying the fine for having unauthorized sex.

Her lover seems to have been fined as well, but it was his wife who actually paid the fine.

The FISA court judges have recognized they cannot truly oversee the NSA, but they oppose any change that might fix this.

The NSA and GCHQ collect 200 million phone text messages a day, and look through them with little restraint.

Another attempt to do a citizen's arrest on Tony B'liar failed, but eventually we will make him stand trial.