By Bernie Woodall and Steve Neavling DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit said on Friday it would stop making payments on some of its about $18.5 billion debt, which would put it in default, and the “insolvent” city called on most of its creditors to accept pennies on the dollar to help it...
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‘Insolvent’ Detroit moves closer to filing for bankruptcy
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Chambliss: Don’t put ‘any limits’ on U.S. involvement in Syria
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) on Sunday declared that President Barack Obama should not put “any limits” on U.S. military involvement in the civil war that’s being waged in Syria. “I don’t think you can place any limits on it right now,” Chambliss told NBC’s...
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MSNBC’s Ari Melber explains why DNA collection is a civil rights issue
MSNBC host Ari Melber on Sunday warned that collecting the DNA samples of every arrested individual would have a disproportionately negative impact on African Americans. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court affirmed Maryland’s policy of collecting DNA profiles of those arrested for serious...
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Pope Francis blesses hundreds of Harley-Davidson enthusiasts in St. Peter’s Square
Hundreds of Harley-Davidson enthusiasts from all over the world received the pope’s blessing on Sunday, drawing cheers and applause from pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square for a pro-life mass. Pope Francis, riding through the throngs aboard his popemobile, made the sign of the cross...
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‘Notion of what is an unreasonable level of paranoia has shifted’ says security consultant
News of a massive surveillance effort led by the secretive National Security Agency has sent Web users scrambling to find new ways to avoid tracking. It might have seemed paranoid not long ago when netizens used tools to hide their tracks, “shred” data or send self-destructing messages....
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Senator Marco Rubio says immigration reform about 96 percent ready
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he still supports a bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration, but reiterated that he wants its stipulations on border security to be tightened in order for the legislation to win approval from Congress. Rubio, one of the...
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Seven arrested for selling drugs from disabled man’s home
Santa Cruz police arrested seven people Thursday after they were found allegedly using the home of a disabled man for illegal activities. Deputy Chief Steve Clark told KTVU that officers searched the La Fonda Avenue home after receiving complaints about elder abuse, illegal drug sales and a...
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Kurtz: Zimmerman trial ‘media overload’ makes justice system seem unfair to black people
CNN media critic Howard Kurtz worried on Sunday that cable news was already spending too much time covering George Zimmerman’s trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin, and that the “racially inflammatory” coverage was causing people to question whether African-Americans could get...
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White House: Iran can be partner of U.S. if they halt ‘illicit’ nuclear program
Iran’s new president will find a partner in the United States if he comes clean on the Islamic republic’s controversial nuclear program, a senior White House official said Sunday. Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani was elected president Friday, ending eight years of a conservative grip on...
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Obama doesn’t believe secret NSA surveillance violated privacy rights: chief of staff
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone records and Internet data has violated Americans’ privacy rights, his chief of staff said on Sunday. Denis McDonough, appearing on CBS’s...
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Texas ‘witch’ mom beats down robber then runs him over with minivan
Confronted by a knife-wielding robber who sprang out of the back seat of her minivan on Friday, a Texas mother did what she had to in order to protect her two young sons, crashing into a telephone pole, taking the man’s weapon out of his hands and punching him in the face before throwing him...
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Colombia sees rise in use of ‘zombie’ drug that affects victims for hours
Last year in Colombia, over 1,200 people were dosed by criminals with a so-called “zombie” drug that makes victims compliant and happy to say or do anything their captors tell them to. Frighteningly, according to a report in The Global Post on Monday, the use of this drug is on the rise...
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Conan dredges up unseen Nicolas Cage audition for ‘Lincoln’
In an online exclusive segment published Monday, late night talk show host Conan O’Brien featured “Big Bang Theory” comedian Simon Helberg auditioning for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” as legendary character actor Nicolas Cage. Helberg pulls off a pretty...
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Ted Cruz adding voter ID to immigration bill to reverse Supreme Court ruling
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reacted to a Monday Supreme Court ruling striking down an Arizona law requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship by declaring that he would add a voter ID requirement to the comprehensive immigration reform bill currently being debated in the Senate. Writing for the...
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Victim of alleged Naval football assault speaks out: ‘He thought it was funny’
A Naval Academy cadet whose allegations against three of the school’s football players for sexual assault recently became public. The woman and her mother, who both requested that their names and faces remain private, sat down with CBS Special Correspondent Jeff Glor about her experience. She...
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Man on Newark-bound plane claims he poisoned passengers
An inbound flight landing at New Jersey’s Newark-Liberty International Airport was met by FBI agents Monday after a passenger claimed he poisoned everyone on board. Several hours into the flight, which was coming from Tokyo, a man stood up and stated he had poisoned the passengers, an FBI spokesman...
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How the Patriot Act debate became about library records instead of phone records
By Justin Elliott, ProPublica In the months following the October 2001, passage of the Patriot Act, there was a heated public debate about the very provision of the law that we now know the government is using to vacuum up phone records of American citizens on a massive scale. “A chilling...
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Republicans push ‘religious freedom’ provision to weaken repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
Republican senators on Monday touted a “religious freedom” provision in the annual defense spending bill that critics say would provide a “license to bully” LGBT service members. The provision, introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and consponsored by Ted Cruz (R-TX) and David...
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The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You Ladies
Thanks, Center For Inquiry, for upholding the public’s worst stereotypes about atheists. Here’s an update on the Center for Inquiry situation for those who are following. One of the oldest, most important rules of politics is that sometimes neutrality is impossible. Sometimes, by...
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Jury clears penile implant doctor of negligence in the case of the 8-month erection
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A jury on Monday cleared a doctor of negligence in a lawsuit filed by a Delaware truck driver who underwent a penile implant procedure and ended up with an erection that lasted eight months. “We’re stunned,” attorney Michael Heyden said as he...
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