Amazon’s Ring home security service has entered into contracts with over 200 police departments, giving law enforcement expansive access to the video and audio collected by the service’s surveillance devices.

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Kentucky has joined several other states in passing legislation requiring schools to display the U.S. national motto “In God We Trust.” Kentucky’s state legislature passed the measure in March, Republican Governor Matt Bevin signed it into law, and with the beginning of this school year students across the state will be greeted by the phrase, thanks to the measure which mandates that “local boards shall require each public elementary and secondary school to display the national motto of the United States, ‘In God We Trust,’ in a prominent location in the school.”

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Yet another former Google employee, this one fired in June 2018, says the tech behemoth is working overtime to ensure that Donald Trump loses the 2020 election.

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Last week, Customs and Border Protection provided yet another example of what’s wrong with the Trump administration’s continuation of the insane policy of catch and release.

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As hundreds of law-enforcement personnel and forensic examiners explore the three shootings over the past week, searching for motives behind the violence, one common element keeps bubbling to the surface: anger.

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In yet another example of a migrant’s “successful integration” into German society, a 28-year-old Syrian, authorities in Stuttgart allege, hacked to death his 36-year-old roommate from Kazakhstan.

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When Ed Snowden blew the whistle on blanket-like NSA surveillance in 2015, his name almost immediately became a household word. Some — like this writer — see him as a patriot and American hero. Others — including many Republicans and other Surveillance State apologists — accuse him of treason and see him as an enemy of America. And while Snowden has — in Internet posts, articles, and television interviews — attempted to set the record straight, the end result is that those who like him, like him and those who don’t, don’t.

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Does the EU have the people of Europe locked in a no-win game?

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With news about a jihadist attempt to poison the food of 40,000 Indian worshippers, it should be noted that this method of terrorism is an ongoing threat — and not just in the Far East, either. In fact, Muslims in Canada some years ago contemplated a plot to kill 100,000 people by toxifying food or water.

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You’ve got to give Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) credit. It’s not every freshman congresswoman who garners attention by simply losing two members of her staff. Of course, AOC is no ordinary freshman congresswoman. She is the face of the new Democrat Party, which is now firmly entrenched with the ideology of Marx and Lenin.

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