Kathy Boudin

(Newser) - Though the San Francisco district attorney recalled by voters on Tuesday admitted past mistakes, without identifying what they were, he mainly pointed the finger elsewhere. "The right-wing billionaires outspent us three to one, they exploited an environment in which people are appropriately upset, and they created an electoral dynamic...

(Newser) - One of the most famous members of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground has died. Kathy Boudin, who spent decades in prison after a fatal Brink's robbery, died in New York after a battle with cancer at age 78, reports the New York Post . Boudin's life story...

(Newser) - Being born with a silver spoon doesn't automatically make you a golden child—or adult. Newsweek takes a look at children of privilege who took an extremely sharp turn away from very-well-to-do families and toward lives of terrorism and murder:

• Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: The son of one of the wealthiest

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