Iran to kill Canadian web developer

Iran has decided that a Canadian man who visited the country a couple of years ago deserves to die for promoting porn. Iran's supreme court has upheld the death sentence for a web programmer who faces imminent execution after being found guilty of developing and promoting porn websites. Saeed Malekpour was visiting the country in October 2008 when he was picked up by plainclothes police and taken to Evin prison in Tehran, where he spent a year in solitary confinement without access to lawyers and without charge. After a year, Malekpour was wheeled out in front of the television cameras, confessing to a series of "crimes" in connection with...

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Documentary examines how toxic water at the nation’s largest Marine base damaged lives

(Gerry Broome/ASSOCIATED PRESS) - This 2007 photo shows some of the older base housing at Midway Park neighborhood at Camp Lejeune, N.C. By Darryl Fears, Published: January 21 Mike Partain didn’t believe the rumors about a place called Baby Heaven until he visited a Jacksonville, N.C., graveyard and wandered into a section where newborns were laid to rest. Surrounded by hundreds of tiny marble headstones, he started to cry. A documentary film crew that followed him for a story about water contamination at Camp Lejeune heard his whimpers through a microphone clipped to his clothes. The crew dashed from another part of the graveyard and found...

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Chris Dodd SOPA Bribery Investigation Petition Has Thousands of Signatures

A petition asking the White House to investigate former senator Chris Dodd for allegedly bribing federal lawmakers in the fight to pass the SOPA bill has thousands of signatures so far. The petition arose in response to comments Chris Dodd--who stepped down from his post representing Connecticut in the U.S. Senate in January of last year--made regarding his work for the Motion Picture Association to advocate for the passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act. The SOPA bill was shelved earlier this week after an intense opposition campaign forced some lawmakers to withdraw their support for the controversial bill, and Dodd has been critical of the...

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FBI arrests Chinese programmer

The Untouchables have fingered the collar of a Chinese computer programmer claiming he stole more than $10 million worth software from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Bo Zhang, 32, from New York, worked as a contract programmer at the bank and the Feds think he copied software to an external hard drive. The software, owned by the U.S. Treasury Department, cost about $9.5 million to develop, Reuters said. A New York Fed spokesman said in a statement that the bank immediately investigated the suspected breach when it was uncovered and promptly referred the matter to authorities. Zhang, who is a Chinese citizen, was released on $200,000...

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