fbi One of the jurors who convicted Whitey Bulger started up a strange pen pal friendship with him Thom Dunn
human rights Davos in the Desert is back, and banks and hedge fund managers are flocking to Mister Bone-Saw's side Cory Doctorow
photography A Belgian photographer was allowed to photograph the inner circle of Japan's yakuza Mark Frauenfelder
organized crime Mobster Whitey Bulger tells high schoolers: "My life was wasted and spent foolishly" Mark Frauenfelder
tabloids Jeffrey Epstein’s prison confession, the world’s most dangerous woman, and the end of the world, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
law IRS says it bought in to location database for millions of US cellphones to track tax crime suspects Xeni Jardin
crime Louisiana couple stole $1,000 worth of beer from 6 Target stores in 1 week, say cops Xeni Jardin
authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn
corruption The corrupt Brazilian prosecutors who locked up Lula now want to release him, to make him less sympathetic Cory Doctorow
china Call for boycott after the actor who played Mulan in the reboot supports Hong Kong's brutal police crackdown on pro-democracy protestors Cory Doctorow
crime AP: the mob who attacked Hong Kong protesters were rural thugs hired by gangsters Cory Doctorow
crime Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape Cory Doctorow
