(satire) Amazon officials announced Wednesday that they’ll be encouraging faster shipping speeds by strapping a cinder block to the accelerator of their drivers’ delivery trucks.

Can the government evade its human rights responsibilities in regard to a certain service by outsourcing it? A court in Scotland ruled yes.

Turkish journalist Ahmet Altan has been arrested again, for bogus political reasons.

Erdoğan has thousands of people jailed or fired from their jobs using the failed coup as an excuse.

The New York City thug department keeps fingerprints of juvenile delinquents, in direct contempt of the state law prohibiting this.

I gather that they are all teenagers rather than "children", but that is no excuse. The law applies to teenagers, too.

US wars since 2000 are estimated to have caused three million deaths.

There is no way to get anything more accurate than an estimate. For Iraq, the organization Iraq Body Count counted only specific casualties which could be verified — and that was clearly a small fraction.