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A story about Long Island family that received a visit from local police after performing Google searches using the terms "pressure cookers" and "backpacks" was misleading.

This morning The Contributor posted a story about Long Island family that received a visit from local police after performing Google searches using the terms "pressure cookers" and "backpacks." According to the Suffolk County Police Department, the visit was the result of a tip from a computer company Catalano's husband worked for, who were concerned about searches that took place on a workplace computer.

This morning The Contributor posted a story about Long Island family that received a visit from local police after performing Google searches using the terms "pressure cookers" and "backpacks." According to the Suffolk County Police Department, the visit was the result of a tip from a computer company Catalano's husband worked for, who were concerned about searches that took place on a workplace computer.

As another fight looms on the horizon about the debt ceiling, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got caught in a mini-Twitter war with former House Speaker and government shutdown advocate Newt Gingrich.

Earlier this year, Chipotle entered the debate about genetically modified food (GMO) by becoming the first company in the U.S. to post labels on its Web site showing which of its menu items contained GMO ingredients.

Last week, number-crunching guru Nate Silver announced he was leaving the New York Times and would bring his analytical skills to ESPN and ABC. Silver has been an outspoken critics of political journalists, but during a Q&A with the popular sports Web site Deadspin, Silver didn't hold back his views on the differences between sports pundits and political pundits,

Hundreds of fast-food workers in St. Louis and Kansas City will walk off their jobs Tuesday as part of an unprecedented week of strikes in seven cities across the country. The strikers will join workers in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee and Flint, as they fight for basic rights - fair pay, decent benefits, the right to form a union without retaliation and an end to unfair labor practices.

As we all kick back and celebrate the birth of freedom, check out what some of the nation's top political cartoonists think about patriotism, 'merica and the Fourth of July.

As we all kick back and celebrate the birth of freedom, check out what some of the nation's top political cartoonists think about patriotism, 'merica and the Fourth of July.

As we all kick back and celebrate the birth of freedom, check out what some of the nation's top political cartoonists think about patriotism, 'merica and the Fourth of July.

As we all kick back and celebrate the birth of freedom, check out what some of the nation's top political cartoonists think about patriotism, 'merica and the Fourth of July.

As we all kick back and celebrate the birth of freedom, check out what some of the nation's top political cartoonists think about patriotism, 'merica and the Fourth of July.

As we all kick back and celebrate the birth of freedom, check out what some of the nation's top political cartoonists think about patriotism, 'merica and the Fourth of July.

As we all kick back and celebrate the birth of freedom, check out what some of the nation's top political cartoonists think about patriotism, 'merica and the Fourth of July.

When the Monterey County Herald first reported restricted access to The Guardian, the newspaper which broke the Edward Snowden NSA story, they thought it was limited to the Presidio of Monterey. It turns out the action was taken Armywide.

The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, AM New York, Newsday... all the major newspapers distributed in the nation's largest city devoted serious front-page real estate to coverage of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.

So you'd expect the New York Post, on a day when there were no innocent runners to accuse of being terrorists, to devout at least some front-page space to the ruling, right?

The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, AM New York, Newsday... all the major newspapers distributed in the nation's largest city devoted serious front-page real estate to coverage of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.

So you'd expect the New York Post, on a day when there were no innocent runners to accuse of being terrorists, to devout at least some front-page space to the ruling, right?

The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, AM New York, Newsday... all the major newspapers distributed in the nation's largest city devoted serious front-page real estate to coverage of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.

So you'd expect the New York Post, on a day when there were no innocent runners to accuse of being terrorists, to devout at least some front-page space to the ruling, right?

Sparked by the outrage over the brutal eviction of a sit in protesting the demolition of Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park, protests have risen across Turkey to support basic freedoms and fight against the government's encroachment on secularism.

Sparked by the outrage over the brutal eviction of a sit in protesting the demolition of Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park, protests have risen across Turkey to support basic freedoms and fight against the government's encroachment on secularism.