Nation Jan 17 Supreme Court may reconsider warrantless cellphone searches Photo by Bill Heinsohn The Supreme Court decided 40 years ago that police don’t need a search warrant to look through anything a person is carrying when arrested. But that was long before smartphones gave people the…
Politics Jan 14 For jobless conservatives, extending emergency unemployment aid is more complex than partisan politics COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — When federal emergency unemployment benefits expired last month, the effects ran deep in a Colorado county marked by two exit ramps off Interstate 25 — one leading to the conservative religious group Focus on the Family,…
Nation Jan 14 Phone companies don’t want the job of spying on customers’ calls In an effort to address privacy, legal and civil liberties concerns, President Barack Obama is expected to propose shifting phone surveillance activities from the NSA to phone companies or an unspecified third party. Photo by Thomas Hawk/Flickr WASHINGTON —…