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 …

Clinton's gamble on Muslims  —  Hillary Clinton is doubling down on slamming Republicans on their anti-Muslim rhetoric at campaign events in both Iowa and New Hampshire.  —  The attacks are mostly aimed at Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner who has said he would impose a temporary ban …

Germany on the Brink  —  ON New Year's Eve, in the shadow of Cologne's cathedral, crowds of North African and Middle Eastern men accosted women out for the night's festivities.  They surrounded them, groped them, robbed them.  Two women were reportedly raped.

Hillary's EmailGate Goes Nuclear  —  Does the latest release of Hillary's State Department emails include highly classified U.S. intelligence?  —  Back in October I told you that Hillary Clinton's email troubles were anything but over, and that the scandal over her misuse of communications …

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.

This Is What Really Happened The Night Women Were Sexually Assaulted In Front Of Police  —  “My friend was groped - it was disgusting.  The whole situation is disgusting.”  BuzzFeed News' Rossalyn Warren reports from Cologne.  —  Reporting From  —  AFP / Getty Images

Roger Goodell calls NFL stadium proposals in Oakland, St. Louis and San Diego ‘unsatisfactory’  —  NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, addressing the media on Dec. 2, has cleared the way for a vote on possible relocation to Los Angeles.  —  The proposed stadium solutions in Oakland …

Heavily armed ‘security detail’ shows up at Oregon standoff encampment  —  Update at 2 p.m.: Armed members of the Pacific Patriot Network are leaving the occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.  —  Joseph Rice, a spokesman for the network, told reporters that his group presented occupation …

White Nationalist PAC Blankets Iowa With Robocalls For Trump  —  Some registered voters in Iowa received robocalls Saturday from a white nationalist super PAC that urged them to support Donald Trump in the 2016 election.  —  “I urge you to vote for Donald Trump because he is the one candidate …