* Google and Yahoo outraged yesterday at reports the NSA can collect information "at will" from hundreds of millions of user accounts. * Dick Cheney re-emerges in order to support the Tea Party and his daughter's campaign for Senate. * Boston wins the World Series at home for
* The portions of the Texas abortion law that remain still make it burdensome for women to get abortions. * To win a seat in Congress, it helps to have a family member who's been in Congress. * Woes continue for healthcare.gov, with news that hacking into people's
* Spy chiefs say listening to foreign leaders is par for the course—and that Europeans would spy on Obama if it wasn't for his badass Blackberry. * Former Greek foreign minister admits to eavesdropping on American diplomats. * Haiku generator makes poetry out of NSA-flagged words. * Our security services&
* China does its best to scrub away evidence—both physically and online—of yesterday's car crash in Tiananmen Square, but images get free. * ABC scrubs clip and apologizes after child on Jimmy Kimmel Live! suggests killing everyone in China. * Related: Excellent remembrance of "Tank Man" and
* White House poised to ban spying on heads of allied countries; former intelligence director tells leaders to get off cell phones. * Obama didn't know before the Snowden leaks that the NSA was targeting as many as 35 world leaders. * Brief introduction to the "five eyes" club,
* According to Spiegel research, the NSA and CIA have used the American Embassy in Berlin as a listening station. * The largest business in death care in North America expects by early 2014 to ingest the next-largest chain. * Related: America’s funeral parlors mostly rely on one man to provide
* Nineteen Syrian rebel groups reject participation in peace talks, demand end of the al-Assad government. * No matter what you read in the news, bullying is not on the rise and it does not lead to suicide. * Relatively large, never-seen-before asteroid very likely will not strike Earth on
* Acela passenger spies on former NSA head, live-tweets overheard phone call. * Europeans gather in a London gentlemen's club to discuss the U.S.'s aggressive spying techniques. * Countries that suffer the highest burden of malaria tend to be the least motivated to do much of anything
* Ten countries have three-quarters of the world’s 30 million slaves; Mauritania comes out worst, with an estimated 4% of the population enslaved. * Nearly half of America's middle-class workers say they're not confident that they will be able to retire comfortably. * Iceland is the
* It will be the first time that American legislators hear direct testimony from civilian victims of a drone strike. * Because Obama's proposed clean-air rules will only apply to new power plants, the effect will be minimal. * The world's worst cities for outdoor air pollution—Bakersfield
