40+ Rights Groups Urge Biden to Halt Federal Use of “Dangerous” Facial Recognition Technology
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of more than 40 advocacy groups is calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action imposing a moratorium on…
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of more than 40 advocacy groups is calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action imposing a moratorium on…
By Jessica Corbett “It’s time to uproot the drug war from our lives.” So says a new Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) project exposing how the…
By Jessica Corbett After U.S. military prosecutors filed formal charges against three longtime prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay offshore prison for nearly 15 years without…
By Jessica Corbett After a series of news reports that have alarmed civil liberties advocates and progressive lawmakers, the ACLU sued on Wednesday to find…
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of 40 ideologically diverse organizations on Thursday demanded that federal lawmakers investigate allegations from earlier this week that the Pentagon…
By Jessica Corbett In an exclusive report Friday that outraged human rights advocates worldwide, The Guardian revealed that Canadian police wanted snipers on standby for a January 2019 crackdown on…
By Jessica Corbett The New York Times on Thursday sparked calls for congressional action by publishing the first article in its “One Nation, Tracked” series,…
By Jake Johnson and Jessica Corbett An Arizona jury on Wednesday found human rights activist Scott Warren not guilty of “harboring” undocumented migrants, charges that…
By Jessica Corbett The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost…
By Jessica Corbett Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno announced late Monday that he had temporarily moved government operations out of the capital of Quito following days…
By Jessica Corbett Privacy advocates are responding with alarm to Amazon’s claim this week that the controversial cloud-based facial recognition system the company markets to law enforcement…
By Jessica Corbett The majority of American veterans and members of the general public agreed in two new surveys that the U.S. wars in Iraq…
By Jessica Corbett (CD) — Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ron on Thursday urged the Trump administration not to hand over the country’s embassy in Washington, D.C….
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of consumer and public health groups demanded Thursday that federal regulators investigate and sanction Amazon for its Echo Dot Kids…