In a federal case, the Obama administration is arguing that warrantless tracking of cell phones is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the whereabouts of their phones. "This is a critical question for privacy in the 21st century," said Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "If the courts do side with the government, that means that everywhere we go, in the real world and online, will be an open book to the government unprotected by the Fourth Amendment."
The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world's earliest languages to the grave.
A New Jersey man accused of shooting and killing his African gray parrot with a BB gun because its screeching annoyed him while he was watching a NASCAR race on TV has been indicted on an animal cruelty charge. read more
Researcher Lorianne Updike Toler was intrigued by the centuries-old document at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. On the back of a treasured draft of the U.S. Constitution was a truncated version of the same document, starting with the familiar words: "We The People. ..." read more
A cat with an uncanny ability to detect when nursing home patients are about to die has proven itself in around 50 cases by curling up with them in their final hours, according to a new book. read more


Well they do rank 47th out of 50 in SAT scores.
Poor ignorant dully thinks that education = intelligence. The fact that smart states prosper, while stupid states (regardless of education) are dismal economic failures pretty much shoots that stupid theory out of the water. LOL