HUMPDAY TIDBIT NEWS

In Fight Against Google, Its Foes Take Their Case to the States

By NICK WINGFIELD and ERIC LIPTON

Google’s detractors complain about the search giant to everyone they can, and now they are taking the fight into states, often to push the company to censor illegal content and sites from search results.

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Some theaters drop 'The Interview' amid Sony hacker threats

Richard Verrier, Ryan Faughnder

Concerned about hackers' threats to moviegoers, theater owners start to pull the Sony Pictures Entertainment film from their holiday lineups.

The spirit of the Boston Tea Party returns

With the mass protests against police violence across the country, are we seeing the sparks of revolt?

December 16, 2014 2:00AM ET

by Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet

Two-hundred and forty-one years ago today, a group of about 120 men and teens ducked out of a big public meeting, donned masks, boarded a docked East India Co. ship and dumped its entire cargo into Boston Harbor. They called themselves the Sons of Liberty, and so did a bunch of other similar groups of anti-king hoodlums throughout the colonies.

Britain's worst teenage tearaway? Yob is taking up more police time than anyone else in her area and has been linked to hundreds of police incidents over past six years

Leah Harries, 18, of Penrhys in Ferndale, South Wales, has been responsible for 20 anti-social behaviour, rowdiness and nuisance incidents since 2012.