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Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump

Global Politics

Immigration detention is big business. Trump will make it even bigger.

Protestors gathered at a small rally in support of Apple's refusal to help the FBI access the cell phone of a gunman involved in the killings of 14 people in San Bernardino, California in February.

Did an Israeli digital forensics firm unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s cellphone?

Justice
A woman places carnations at the scene of a suicide bombing at Istiklal Street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, Turkey.

By the numbers: The terror attacks we paid attention to

Conflict
Apple and the FBI are at odds over iPhone encryption.

Where European countries stand on privacy versus security

Business
NYT Building

Dan Kennedy: What the New York Times’ screw-up tells us about the liberal media’s anti-liberal bias

Media
Watertown shootout

What San Bernardino police learned from the Boston Marathon bombings manhunt

Conflict

More than 2,500 cops from as far away as New Hampshire and New York responded to the pursuit and search for the Boston Marathon bombers, and it wasn’t always clear who was in charge.

Josue “Josh” Muniz, now 20, is suing the San Bernardino City Unified School District and a school police officer for excessive force and negligent training. The suit alleges that the officer grabbed Muniz, then 17, by the throat, pepper sprayed him and b

In San Bernardino County, there’s an epidemic of questionable arrests by school police

Justice

Soul-searching in San Bernardino County over school cops’ tactics and attitudes.

What's privacy anymore?

I don’t want to watch. It’s an invasion of privacy. But I do.

Conflict

I and a lot of my fellow journalists felt queasy from the live footage of the inside of the apartment where the suspected San Bernardino shooters lived. In the context of news coverage and social media it can feel perfectly OK to know to much. In real life it is a different story.

Artist Ramiro Gomez paints cardboard cut-outs of LA’s “invisible workers”

Arts, Culture & Media

Artist and nanny Ramiro Gomez paints life size cardboard cut-outs of housekeepers, landscapers and gardeners to pay homage to the hidden workers behind LA’s wealthiest neighborhoods.

Home Wind

While Congress debates a federal bill that might give homeowners incentives to invest in renewable energy, residents in states like California, Massachusetts and Ohio are already reaping the benefits of rebate programs on small scale wind projects.