El Chapo Speaks  —  A secret visit with the most wanted man in the world … It's September 28th, 2015.  My head is swimming, labeling TracPhones (burners), one per contact, one per day, destroy, burn, buy, balancing levels of encryption, mirroring through Blackphones, anonymous e-mail addresses …

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Even in Early Races, Poll Finds  —  Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz in tight Iowa race, with billionaire businessman ahead of field in New Hampshire  —  Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are deadlocked in both Iowa and New Hampshire three weeks …

Economist: GOP may win 47 states in general election  —  Supply-side economist Arthur Laffer is predicting Republicans will win the White House in a landslide this year, regardless of the nominee.  —  “I would be surprised if the Republicans don't take 45, 46, 47 states out of the 50,” …

CNN's Cooper Lets Slip: White House Press Corps ‘Agrees’ With Obama  —  Share it Tweet it  —  Ooops.  CNN's Anderson Cooper seemingly let slip on Thursday night what anyone who has a watched a presidential press conference already knows, but journalists are usually loath to admit …

Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country  —  Once in a while—not quite often enough to be a crisis, but just often enough to be a trope—people in the United States will freak out because a huge number of highly popular websites and services have suddenly gone down.

Gas prices could drop toward $1 a gallon  —  In some gas stations around the country, the price of a gallon of regular has dropped below $1.42.  AAA and GasBuddy, two organizations that follow gasoline prices, say that gasoline prices below $2 will not be unusual in most of the United States.

‘I went to join Isis in Syria, taking my four-year-old.  It was a journey into hell’  —  Sophie Kasiki is one of the few women to escape from Raqqa, the stronghold of Islamic State  —  Sophie Kasiki stared at the photograph of a young English-speaking boy in a camouflage uniform …