14 Caribbean nations sue Britain, Holland and France for slavery reparations that could cost hundreds of billions of pounds

Mail Online - By Tom Leonard and Simon Tomlinson, Updated 10/11/13

The Washington Post - By Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani, 10/14/13

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top-secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

Although the collection takes place overseas, two senior U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged that it sweeps in the contacts of many Americans. They declined to offer an estimate but did not dispute that the number is likely to be in the millions or tens of millions.

21st Century Wire - 10/13/13, By 21Wire

(IMAGE: Iwo Jima Redux: Barriers taken down by US Veterans in defiance of the White House’s memorial shutdown orders)

As the Bobtail trucker convoys entered the heart of Washington DC this morning, Metropolitan police recognized that truckers were in an organized formation, and signaled their support to constitutional truckers.

NBC News - 10/13/13, Nona Willis-Aronowitz

The Guardian - Ryan Gallagher, 10/11/13