- Philadelphia transit workers went on strike this morning to protest wages, health care and pension system reforms, the strike could affect as many as 800,000 people daily.
- A federal judge has rejected the NYPD's settlement offer with Muslim groups over years of illegal post-9/11 surveillance, saying proposed civil liberties protections did not go far enough.
- Russia's defense minister is blaming the US coalition for "attacking civilians" in Aleppo, Syria and says that any US-Russian peace talks over Syria will be suspended indefinitely as a result.
- A construction accident at a gasoline pipeline in Alabama killed one and injured five yesterday, the Colonial Pipeline being out of commission has caused gas price spikes on the East Coast.
- A new leak from hacker group Shadow Brokers purports that hundreds of organizations on the internet were targeted by the NSA over the last decade.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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