Japanese internment camp survivor reflects on the painful history of Heart Mountain: “We were denied liberty”

[ad_1] Few people willingly return to their old prison, but 92-year-old Sam Mihara did just that, recently returning to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in rural Wyoming.  “Our family suffered a lot,” Mihara told CBS News.  He doesn’t want to forget what happened at Heart Mountain. He wants all Americans to remember. “My father went…

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Google ordered to pay $425.7 million in damages for improperly tracking smartphone activity

[ad_1] A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached Wednesday in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the United States between July…

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Judge rips DOJ for causing “embarrassment” for the government as it dismisses another D.C. felony case

[ad_1] A federal judge excoriated the Justice Department over its handling of criminal cases during the Trump administration’s ongoing federal takeover of Washington, D.C., saying at a hearing Thursday that the department has brought “embarrassment and shame” on the government during its “rush” to charge individuals. U.S. District Judge Zia Faruqui apologized to Edward Dana,…

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