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Congress approves surveillance legislation tucked into budget package

(credit: Brad Clinesmith)

Congress on Friday adopted a $ 1.15 trillion spending package that included a controversial cybersecurity measure that only passed because it was slipped into the US government's budget legislation.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican of Wisconsin, inserted the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) into the Omnibus Appropriations Bill—which includes some $ ...

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Busted by online package tracking, drug dealer gets more than 8 years in prison

(credit: Adam Jones, Ph.D.)

A Massachusetts man who bought methylone (also known as "molly") online from China was sentenced Monday to eight years and four months in prison.

Harold Bates pleaded guilty in September 2015 to importing methylone and one count of possession by an inmate in prison of a prohibited object. Curiously, the man was busted...

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