Serena Williams Becomes Winningest Woman In Open History

Another win, another milestone for Serena Williams who rolled into the U.S. Open last 16 on Saturday by crushing Sweden’s Johanna Larsson 6-2 6-1 to collect grand slam victory number 307 – the most by a woman in the Open era.

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America’s Private Prison Industry Was Born from the Exploitation of the Slave Trade

Private prisons — those for-profit correctional facilities owned by corporations rather than the government — have their origin in the slave trade.

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How Baltimore Became America’s Laboratory for Spy Tech

IF YOU LIVE in Baltimore, you may have the feeling that you’re being watched. You are. Baltimore Police track your cellphone use without a warrant. They secretly film the entire city from the air. And as concerns about the uses and privacy implications of that next-generation surveillance tech have mounted, these domestic spying scandals also raise another question: Why Baltimore?

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