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KPRC A Houston police officer is will reappear before a grand jury Tuesday for the killing of an unarmed black man in January. The jury met on Dec. 11 but did not come to a decision. Jordan Baker [...]

HOUSTON (KTRK) — One of many things to come out of the national debate over what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, is a new and critical look at the grand jury system. Riots and protest [...]

USA Today SAN FRANCISCO —Gregory Maxwell, a co-founder of the digital currency startup Blockstream, sat in front of a crowded room of Bitcoin experts and investors in a conference room of San [...]

Intercept The Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report will be released “in a matter of days,” a committee staffer tells The Intercept. The report, a review of brutal CIA interrogation [...]

Ben Swann On Monday, the White House proposed a $263 million “investment package” in an effort to improve police departments across the country in response to continuous tension between residents [...]

France24 The surveillance of electronic communications by British intelligence agencies is not a breach of human rights law, a UK tribunal has ruled. But the debate over privacy and spying [...]

Open Permaculture Compost is one of the permaculture gardener’s most potent tools. It recycles “waste” from the garden and the home and turns it into a material rich in nutrients, which soils [...]

AP At least 400 people are killed by police officers in the United States every year, and while the circumstances of each case are different, one thing remains constant: In only a handful of [...]

FDL A federal appeals court has ruled, despite its previously expressed objections, that a district court was wrong to rule that a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) [...]

On November 25th protesters in Houston gathered at MacGregor park to rally for justice and make their voices heard in response to the Ferguson Grand Jury’s decision not to indict Officer [...]