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Obama appoints Washington attorney as special envoy to close Guantanamo prison

June 17, 2013, 2:53 pm
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday chose high-profile Washington, D.C. attorney Clifford Sloan as the state department’s special envoy for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. In a May address, Obama pledged a renewed dedication to closing the prison, and filling the post, which has been vacant...
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WSJ editorial writer: Military sexual assault reports are part of ‘war on men’

June 18, 2013, 12:39 pm
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Wall Street Journal editorial writer James Taranto sounded off about the military’s epidemic of sexual assaults on Monday, calling people who report incidents of sexual assaults fakers and accusing them of being the shock troops in an ongoing “war on men” and an effort to...
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Republicans’ latest abortion ban is staggeringly stupid

June 18, 2013, 12:41 pm
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The white male-dominated Republican party is still living in the stone age on social issues. It just goes from bad to worse It’s a truism verging on dogma that history favors steady progress toward equal rights for gays. The last election cycle saw incredible gains for marriage equality and...
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Houston man arrested for threatening to kidnap and murder Ted Cruz

June 18, 2013, 12:44 pm
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A Houston man is charged with threatening Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), leaving messages at his Austin office this month claiming he would kidnap and murder the freshman senator and his father if they did not pay him $3 million. An arrest warrant obtained by The Houston Chronicle explains that the man...
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Beck: Immigrants ‘learned from the Klan… they are just changing their hood’

June 18, 2013, 12:53 pm
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Conservative radio host Glenn Beck told Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) on Tuesday that immigrant activists have the “same ideology” as the Ku Klux Klan but they “are just changing their hood.” Over the weekend, about 300 activists traveled had traveled to Kobach’s...
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Republican mentions suffering of Jesus amid anti-abortion speech on House floor

June 18, 2013, 1:29 pm
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Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) on Tuesday assured those effected by abortion that they could be healed by the power of Jesus Christ. In a speech on the House floor, Republican congressman said he supported the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act because research had found that a fetus was capable...
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Google asks court for permission to publish government data requests

June 18, 2013, 1:41 pm
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WASHINGTON — Google said Tuesday it asked a special US court handling national security investigations for permission to publish the number of government requests for data to the Internet giant. The court filing in Washington came amid a firestorm of protests over revelations that the National...
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Tesla Motors to unveil new method to quickly recharge electric cars

June 18, 2013, 2:05 pm
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Tesla Motors said Thursday it would demonstrate a way to quickly recharge electric cars by swapping drained batteries for fresh power cells. Tesla chief executive and founder Elon Musk used popular the messaging service Twitter to put out word that a “live pack swap demo” was taking...
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Immigration office tells atheist applicant to prove church membership

June 18, 2013, 3:03 pm
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A woman who has lived in the United States for 30 years and now hopes to become a naturalized citizen has run into a road block: her lack of religion. Margaret Doughty, 65, of Palacios, Texas applied to become a citizen of the United States, but on her application she did not agree to bears arms in...
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Chrysler agrees to recall of 2.7 million Jeeps

June 18, 2013, 3:09 pm
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Chrysler announced Tuesday that it would bow to the US safety regulator’s pressure to recall 2.7 million Jeep Liberties and Jeep Grand Cherokees over a fire risk. Two weeks after rejecting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s recommendation for a recall, Chrysler said it...
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Winds on Venus have accelerated to 250 mph over the past six years

June 18, 2013, 3:12 pm
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Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported on Tuesday. Separate teams of astronomers analysed images from ESA’s Venus Express orbiter, monitoring cloud patterns on...
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Virginia Republican pleads guilty to dozens of counts of voter fraud

June 19, 2013, 12:50 pm
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A Virginia Republican and supporter of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) pleaded guilty on Tuesday to perjury and 36 counts of voter fraud. Adam Ward, 28, claimed he collected more than 11,000 petition signatures for Gingrich during the Republican presidential primaries, in an effort to...
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Alleged Klansman accused of inventing truck-mounted death ray for Israel

June 19, 2013, 1:00 pm
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A General Eclectic mechanic in New York, who allegedly was also a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists after he developed a radiation weapon intended to be used against against Muslims and “enemies of Israel,” the...
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Parents must teach their children about porn and consent

June 19, 2013, 1:20 pm
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Suzanne Moore: As we teach kids how to cross the road, so parents must now teach them about porn and consent ‘How was school?” As every parent knows, this question is usually met by a grunt and “Why haven’t you bought the biscuits I like?” Then later on they accuse you...
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Study uncovers anti-black attitudes among tea party supporters — but not members

June 19, 2013, 1:55 pm
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Since its inception back in 2010, critics of the tea party have claimed the conservative movement was motivated wholly or in part by racial animus towards President Barack Obama. Former NAACP chairman Julian Bond, for instance, recently described the tea party as an “admittedly racist”...
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Associated Press CEO: Sources will no longer speak to us because of phone monitoring

June 19, 2013, 2:02 pm
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The US government’s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records had a “chilling effect” on newsgathering by the agency and other news organizations, AP’s top executive said Wednesday. “Some longtime trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking...
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Serena Williams apologizes for saying Steubenville rape victim was ‘lucky’

June 19, 2013, 2:04 pm
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World number one Serena Williams, a 16-time Grand Slam singles champion preparing to defend her title at Wimbledon, made an apology on Wednesday for comments in Rolling Stone magazine about a rape case. Williams was quoted regarding a case in Steubenville, Ohio, in a story about her posted online...
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HPV declining among U.S. teens thanks to vaccine

June 19, 2013, 2:06 pm
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The number of US girls with the sexually transmitted disease HPV has dropped by about half even though relatively few youths are getting the vaccine, research showed on Wednesday. Human papillomavirus is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States and has been linked to...
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Head of ‘ex-gay therapy’ group apologizes for causing the suffering of LGBT people

June 19, 2013, 3:19 pm
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The president of an organization that promotes “cures” for gay and lesbian individuals on Wednesday offered a lengthy apology to those harmed by ex-gay therapy. “I cannot simply move on and pretend that I have always been the friend that I long to be today,” Alan Chambers of...
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Three U.S. Naval Academy football players charged with raping unconscious woman

June 19, 2013, 3:24 pm
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By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. Naval Academy football players have been charged with raping a female midshipman and making false statements, the school said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of sexual assault allegations in the U.S. military. The midshipmen will face an...
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