NEW YORK (PNN) - July 26, 2016 - We already interact with artificial intelligence in our daily lives. Furby and Clippy were early forms; driverless cars and Facebook's chatbots pick up the mantle today. But if AI is to continue its evolution, it will have to get more convincingly human. Right now, its capacity for emotional depth is seriously lacking.

DENVER, Colorado (PNN) - July 25, 2016 - Did you know the man who recorded the video of Alton Sterling being murdered by terrorist pig thug cops, Christopher LeDay, was arrested on July 6 for uploading the heartbreaking footage to Facebook? An employee of a private security firm at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Georgia, he was detained on bogus charges that have uprooted his life. Though LeDay was later released, he is now fighting to keep his job.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (PNN) - July 25, 2016 - Eight petrol-powered heavy-duty propellers, one tube lattice frame, a simple seat, and a hobby-grade R/C controller wired in. What could possibly go wrong? This Swedish engineer displays a pair of colossal cojones as he puts his homemade flying carpet multirotor to the test.

CHITTENDEN COUNTY, Vermont (PNN) - July 22, 2016 - A U.S. officer who helped liberate 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust has died at the age of 99.

On April 7, 1945, Lt. Frank Winchester Towers, who was the division liaison officer of Regiment 743 of the 30th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army during World War II, approached (with his regiment’s tanks) a stopped train in which there were 2,500 Jewish prisoners bound for the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Nazis stopped the train because they were ordered to destroy it and drown the passengers in the Elbe River.

By Andrew P. Napolitano

July 21, 2016 - What if the folks who run the Department of Political Justice recently were told that the republic would suffer if Hillary Clinton were indicted for espionage because Donald Trump might succeed Barack Obama in the presidency? What if espionage is the failure to safeguard state secrets and the evidence that Clinton failed to safeguard them is unambiguous and overwhelming?

SAN FRANCISCO, Kalifornia (PNN) - July 20, 2016 - Two weeks after fascist Kalifornia Governor Jerry Brown signed into a law a slew of new gun regulations, among them a law that would ban bullet buttons that work around Kalifornia’s onerous assault weapons ban, guns are flying off the shelves.

RALEIGH, North Carolina (PNN) - April 10, 2016 - Composite metal foams are little-known materials that are beginning to show some big promise. Last year we saw researchers adapt these lightweight materials to stop various forms of radiation in their tracks, and now the same team has ramped things up to offer protection from something with a bit more force: an armor-piercing bullet, which was turned to dust on impact.

Some are potentially habitable.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - July 19, 2016 - NASA announced today that its Kepler spacecraft has discovered a "crop of more than 100 planets" orbiting the M dwarf star K2-72, 181 light years away from Earth.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 13, 2016 - Privacy advocates celebrated earlier this week as the House rejected yet another attempt to expand the USA PATRIOT Act’s snooping provisions. House Resolution 5606, better known by its Orwellian name, the “Anti-Terrorism Information Sharing is Strength Act”, would have allowed Big Brother to access Amerikans’ financial information based on what the government deems to be “suspicious activity”. Given that the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Homeland Security division has labeled such things as using binoculars, paying with cash, or even “appearing normal” as “possible terrorist activity” in the past (thus making pretty much every human being a possible terrorist), everyone can breathe a sigh of relief that the bill failed.

By Paul Craig Roberts

July 11, 2016 - In response to my request for information on US police training, readers have sent in a variety of information that seems to fit together. I am going to assemble it as best I can as a working hypothesis or provisional account. Perhaps a former or current police officer concerned about the change in the behavior of US police, or an expert on police training and practices, will come forward and verify or correct this provisional account.