12/24/17 Overnight links

EFF: Beating back the rise of law enforcement’s digital surveillance of protestors

Center for Research on Globalization: Drug deaths drive down US life expectancy for second straight year

Another take on the crisis from the Chicago Tribune: The epidemic that’s shortening American lives

Daily Star: Artificial intelligence is now bombing ISIS

Digital Trends: Biometric scans at airports may not be legal: report

CBS News: What was the Pentagon’s secret UFO program looking for?

IB Times: Big Brother is watching you in China, every minute, every second, everywhere

Daily Beast: This drone will change emergency medical treatment

Santa Fe New Mexican: Drug use explodes in Mexico as more narcotics stay home

Mexico News Daily: Why 2017 has been so terrible for Mexico

Huffington Post: How a secretive police squad racked up kills in Duterte’s drug war

Libertarian Institute: Anatomy of a tax cut

Mises Institute: Leonard Read on what it means to be a liberal

Ars Technica: Why does the Western US have so many odd volcanoes?

RCS: Detox tea may have killed woman

Physics Central: How fast does time dilate?

Science Daily: Why water is at its strangest at -44 Celsius

Author: S. Smith