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Anybody in this country who wants to kill a lot of people in a crowded public space can do so fairly easily. The fact this almost never happens - and that when it does happen the act almost never has a political motive - indicates how wildly overstated the threat of terrorism is in America today.

"Deepfake videos can be fun, but not when it comes to politcs and pornography. Now, the state of California is doing something about it with two new bills signed into law last week by Governor Gavin Newsom. The first makes it illegal to post any manipulated videos that could, for instance, replace a candidate's face or speech in order to discredit them, within 60 days of an election. The other will allow residents of the state to sue anyone who puts their image into a pornographic video using deepfake technology."

This will break a treaty they have had with the U.S

It's on the front cover of the Los Angeles Times. And the reporters, Scott Gold, Richard Winton and Paloma Esquivel, wrote this horrifying lede: In the fall of 2010, a drugstore photo technician was running a batch of 35-millimeter film when a disturbing image tumbled out of the machine - a child, blindfolded with a white cloth and gagged with clear packing tape.

(CNN) -- A woman who was babysitting a 5-year-old who fatally shot himself Monday with her gun has been charged with abandoning or endangering a child, a felony, and jailed in Orange County, Texas, police said Wednesday. Bail was set at $250,000 for Melissa Ann Ringhardt, 19, said Clint Hodgkinson, chief deputy with the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

I can't believe the babysitter fell asleep but also can't believe the gun wasn't hidden better and more out of reach

The fact that multiple children are shooting themselves... and primarily in the head... is slightly unnerving. It's a good thing a new law is coming forth teaching gun safety to the younger generations, Missouri lead the way? http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/15/politics/missouri-first-grade-gun-lessons/index.html

(CNN) -- The White House learned this summer that the National Security Administration had tapped the phones of world leaders and ordered a halt to some of the eavesdropping, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Quoting unidentified U.S.

"Donald Trump's not going to get elected president by disparaging people, by attacking people all the time. That's not going to work. You lift people's spirits up to become president of the United States," Bush said Wednesday morning on Fox News. Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Instagram humorously asking people: "Having trouble sleeping at night?

A day after again declining to apologize for her use of a private e-mail system while she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton told an interviewer Tuesday that the arrangement was a mistake and that she is "sorry" for it. "That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that.

A day after again declining to apologize for her use of a private e-mail system while she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton told an interviewer Tuesday that the arrangement was a mistake and that she is "sorry" for it. "That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that.

"There is a defined racial divide in America between how whites and non-whites view police and the criminal justice system, according to a CNN / ORC poll released Monday."

"People who provide gay-to-straight conversion therapy are committing fraud if they describe homosexuality as a mental disorder that can be cured, a state judge said Tuesday in a ruling a civil rights group predicted would deal a serious blow to the treatment's future across the nation."

"The high court will hear oral arguments Monday in the first examination of free speech rights and social media. The outcome of the groundbreaking case, Elonis v. U.S., could decide the limits of what you post online."

"The Pozner case is one of three defamation lawsuits, including another in Texas and one in Connecticut, filed by relatives of nine Sandy Hook victims. Lawyers for Mr. Jones on Thursday sought the dismissal on free speech grounds of a defamation case filed with the Austin court by Neil Heslin, whose son, Jesse Lewis, was killed at Sandy Hook."