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Bradley Manning took the stand again on Wednesday and spoke for the second time in the more than three years since his arrest. This time, he said he was sorry. "I want to start off with an apology," Manning told the military judge in a brief two-minute statement. "I’m sorry that my actions hurt people. I’m sorry that they hurt the United States [...] I understood what I was doing, and decisions I made. However, I did not fully appreciate the broader effects of my actions." See also: Bradley Manning: the Movie? Manning delivered his statement during the last day...

Bradley Manning, who allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of secret government documents to Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, turns 23 in jail Friday. The Daily Beast’s Denver Nicks, in an exclusive interview with Manning’s attorney, reports on his solitary confinement, what he’s reading (from George W. Bush to Howard Zinn), and his legal strategy. The last time Bradley Manning saw the world outside of a jail, most Americans had never heard of WikiLeaks. On Friday, Manning, the man whose alleged unauthorized release of hundreds of thousands of classified documents put the website and its controversial leader, Julian Assange, on the map, turns...

Long ago when we were children we heard our parents say "don't let little boys play with matches." Two grown up California university professors want to torch what they believe are inequities with California Proposition 13 for commercial properties. These two professors can be likened to the two financial wizards from the University of California who invented the formula for derivatives resulting in the recent reduction of much of our financial system to ashes. But at least the professors who invented the formula for derivatives didn't intend to burn down our economic system. Not so for our two professors who...