For 15 years, Elouise Cobell pursued a case on behalf of more than 500,000 Indian people due royalties from the federal government

Elouise Cobell, the Blackfeet woman from Browning who won a historic $3.4 billion settlement for Indian people cheated by the federal government, died Sunday night at a Great Falls hospital. See more at:

Kenyans bid farewell to green warrior and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai

Kenyans bid farewell to laureate Wangari Maathai

Thousands of Kenyans paid their respects to Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai on Saturday at a state funeral held in a park where she had once been beaten up for holding a protest.

Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution

In the wake of the devastating collapse of Iceland's commercial banks, the country is drawing up a new constitution, and it's doing things a little differently: It's crowdsourcing the process. For real.

“shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use

The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications networks.