Federal Agents Urged to 'Friend' People on Social Networks, Memo Reveals: Websites the government is spying on include Twitter, MySpace, Craigslist and Wikipedia, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which filed the FOIA request.
Defiant millions take to the streets in battle over Nicolas Sarkozy's cuts: The return of students and workers in mass protests made the right shiver. But there was no battle of the barricades
Mortgage Damage Spreads: Big Bank Stocks Hit Again as Modern Finance Collides With the Legal System
CNBC predicts Congress will retroactively legalize foreclosure fraud: Congress will pass a bill to "forgive" banks the potentially criminal errors made in foreclosure proceedings, a senior CNBC editor predicts.
Poverty In Suburbs Increasing Rapidly During Economic Downturn: A pair of analyses by the nonprofit Brookings Institution paints a bleak economic picture for the 100 largest metropolitan areas over the past decade and in coming years, and finds that suburbs now are home to one-third of the nation's poor, and rising.