During his 1976 prosecution of Klansman Robert Chambliss in the Alabama church bombing case, the mail for (then) Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley included little in the way of praise. The norm was racist rants, personal insults and death threats. Unfazed, Baxley placed them in a file he...

Much is at stake with the selection of Pope Benedict XVI's successor, including a lot of money. Paddy Power, Europe's largest bookmaker, has already taken more than £100,000 in bets, and expects to see multi-million-pound action closer to next month's conclave at the Sistine Chapel.

While Las Vegas casinos...

On Tuesday the Memphis City Council passed a resolution to rename three Confederate-themed public parks in Memphis, including one named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate Park is now known as Memphis Park, Jefferson Davis Park is henceforth Mississippi River Park and Nathan...

Thinking about snorting "bath salts"? Yes, the LSD-like synthetic narcotic has become wildly popular because it's easily -- and legally -- obtainable and it doesn't show up on drug tests. The following video, produced by the United States Navy, may give you pause, however.

As you'll see...

In 2010, computer scientists from the University of Michigan and Princeton hacked a touch-screen voting machine, installing the video game Pac-Man. Could comparable voting systems in Ohio be subverted to alter the presidential vote tally? As it happens, a 2007 Ohio-sponsored election equipment study provides numerous methods for...

In 2006, a group of computer hackers reprogrammed a Dutch electronic voting machine to play chess. The Dutch government subsequently imposed a moratorium on the use of electronic voting machines. In 2009, German Federal Constitutional Court ruled the country's electronic voting systems unreliable to the point that their use was...

I don't like uncertainty. The current presidential polls -- Gallup with Romney leading by three percent, CBS with Obama up by two percent, aggregators split on whose nose is ahead -- are a hotbed of uncertainty. Fortunately there are veritable election oracles I can turn to...

During MSNBC's January 24, 2008 Republican presidential debate in Boca Raton, Florida, moderator Tim Russert asked Mitt Romney, "Will you do for Social Security what Ronald Reagan did in 1983?"

A disembodied whisper of "He raised taxes" followed.

Romney appeared to take note before answering Russert, "I'm not...

After 2008's Ghost, the bestselling memoir of his early career as a State Department counterterrorism agent, Fred Burton turned his attention to an unsolved murder.

On a July night in 1973, in the quiet suburb of Bethesda, Maryland, Israeli military attaché Joe Alon parked his Ford Galaxie 500 in...

The Huffington Post's editorial team thought readers might be interested in the pressures of following up a bestselling novel with a sequel.

Initially there was relatively little pressure on me. My book, Once a Spy was hardly To Kill a Mockingbird.

Also, when the publisher, Doubleday, advanced the idea of...

Last year, more than 50,000 users logged onto Intrade, the world's largest prediction market site, to bet on "markets" ranging from elections to the Academy Awards. Currently the most popular market is the prospective fall of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, garnering close to $100,000 in wagers. Markets...

This is a true story. Amidst widespread accounts of Mossad-controlled spy vultures, weaponized sharks and jellyfish, Palestinian media have accused Israel of loosing genetically engineered rodents against Jerusalem's Arab population.

According to Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, "efforts to counter this infestation have failed, especially since...

On Saturday, the Austin-based private global intelligence company Stratfor shared reconnaissance satellite imagery of the Egyptian military securing protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo.

Stratfor added DigitalGlobe aerial photographs of other areas of strategic importance in Egypt.

The resulting video (below) includes commentary by Stratfor...

Recently, a diverse group of New York City high school students was assigned to write reports on Martin Luther King, Jr. Searching the Internet, several students learned that the renowned civil rights leader had in fact been a drunken philandering con man. Others concluded that the federal holiday marking King's...

True story: Early this week, a griffon vulture flew across the Israeli border and into Saudi Arabia, where it was captured on suspicion of espionage. Local authorities found a GPS transmitter on the bird as well as a leg bracelet emblazoned with TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY. Despite claims by...

In October 2009 Toronto-based artist Josh Chalom, 51, first entered the Guinness Book of World Records with a 17-by-8.5-foot depiction of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" rendered entirely in three-inch Rubik's Cubes--4,050 Rubik's cubes, to be exact, all "solved." The piece was a mere coaster compared to Chalom's latest...

Things in our house like to break on holidays, when repair services are unavailable, leaving the work to us. When a faucet got into the act recently, I looked to DoItYourself.com and read the following first step: "To repair the leak, first turn off the water."

With a...

A top professional horseplayer once told me that compared to handicapping horse races, elections were a cakewalk. "You're better off listening to a gambler than a pollster," he said, "Polls can be inaccurate. Gamblers are accurate or they lose."

There's considerable evidence that he was on the money. In 2004,...

I recently interviewed FBI agents who had caught a Toledo couple smuggling funds to Hezbollah. The couple's method -- hiding $600,000 in cash within custom-made running boards on a used Chevy Trailblazer intended to be shipped overseas -- astonished me. As smuggling goes, however, it was pedestrian, especially compared to...

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's book, Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan -- and the Path to Victory, was due to be published by St. Martin's Press on Aug. 31. It's not out yet. In an effort to contain classified information brought to light by...