* Marines placed on high alert, anticipating a backlash from today's Senate torture report on the Bush era. * Bush, former CIA officials condemn the torture report. * Related: The report is too little, too late for Obama's record; key aides muddled the approach from the get-go. * ACLU
* Republican attorneys general in at least a dozen states form secret alliance with Big Energy to fight environmental regulations. * The strange thing about Tony Blair's Christmas card is how the teeth seem to follow you round the room. * Nations track their citizens with third-party surveillance tools, to
* Loretta Lynch to lead inquiry into Eric Garner's death while Republican Senators vet her for attorney general. * Two weeks after the death of Tamir Rice, Justice Department finds pattern of excessive force by Cleveland Police. * De Blasio announces three-day retraining course for 22,000 New York City
* Records of deaths by officers from local police departments are routinely higher than those reported by the FBI. * Following the decision not to indict, Eric Holder announces federal investigation into Eric Garner's chokehold death. * Man who shot the Eric Garner video claims police have been harassing him ever
* Contrary to popular belief, the US divorce rate has been declining over the last 20 years. * A poor Moroccan kid in France is much more likely to move into the middle class than a child born into a poor family in Mississippi. * Britons joining Amazon Anonymous— pledging to enjoy an
* Obama announces federal funding for police body cameras and tighter guidelines on military weapons for law enforcement. * Yesterday thousands joined #HandsUpWalkOut to mark the hour Michael Brown was murdered. * Evidence ISIS has peaked: new losses in battles accompany dissension and infighting among the group's various factions. * Dr. Nadeem
* Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong enter their third month, and clashes with police are becoming more violent. * Online and in-store purchases over Thanksgiving dropped 11%—Americans could be waiting to spend today, or not at all. * On Black Friday, capitalism cannibalizes culture. * China may miss its economic growth
* Nights of protests over Ferguson continue around the country, even overseas. * Toobin: Prosecutor McCulloch gave Wilson’s case special treatment, which summarizes the real shame of his approach. * Ferguson prosecutor inveighs against the Twitterverse. * This is America: You're supposed to play by the broken rules until you can
* How Darren Wilson avoided indictment: The struggle with Michael Brown shifted between homicide and self defense. * Examine for yourself the evidence available to the grand jury in Ferguson. * A point-by-point explanation of how the law protects police officers who kill unarmed citizens. * Why Darren Wilson was never going
* Unable to reach an agreement in Iran nuclear talks, negotiators push deadline to March 1, 2015. * US air strikes in Syria are encouraging anti-regime fighters to forge alliances with or even defect to ISIS. * After serving six years of a 19-year sentence, the Iranian blogger movement founder has
