U.S. Customs seizes American nurse’s $42,000 earmarked for Nigerian clinic

"More than six months later, Customs and Border Protection still has not given back her money. This, despite the fact that the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of Texas did not bring a civil asset forfeiture case against her or charge her with any crime."

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Pentagon Plans To Identify All Smartphone Users By Gait, Wrist Tension

"The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be available in most commercial smartphones within two years."

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Illinois Cops: Don’t Legalize Weed, Or We’ll Have to Kill Our Drug Dogs

"Sheriff Buffett isn't just any sheriff. He's the son of Omaha billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and he's used his family wealth both to finance law enforcement spending in the county and to basically buy his way into the sheriff's office."

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