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National Domestic Workers Alliance’s Ai-Jen Poo: ‘There’s a lot of cultural resistance to the notion that we’re aging’

June 23, 2013, 10:32 pm
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This year at Netroots Nation, Raw Story was asking 5 Questions of various panel speakers, exhibitors and attendees about issues you didn’t hear addressed on the main stage. As the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Ai-Jen Poo is used to advocating for legal, political and social...
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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa considering request to give Edward Snowden asylum

June 24, 2013, 5:50 pm
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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, who has given the United States headaches throughout his tenure, risks more trouble if he grants political asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. Much greater powers — China and Russia — have vexed the United States during...
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Snapchat market value hits $800 million

June 24, 2013, 6:26 pm
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The startup behind a Snapchat application for sharing self-destructing smartphone photos and messages got a dizzying valuation on Monday in a new funding round. Reports that the company launched in late 2011 had raised $60 million from investors, giving it a market value of about $800 million, hit...
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Same-sex couples anxiously wait for Supreme Court marriage ruling

June 24, 2013, 6:27 pm
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By Ronnie Cohen and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – The Reverend Paul Mowry, a minister at the Sausalito Presbyterian Church near San Francisco, awoke at 6:30 a.m. Monday, hoping it would be the day the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that would allow him to marry Joe Silverman, his companion...
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Obama administration fights claims of incompetence as Snowden saga continues

June 24, 2013, 6:32 pm
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By Andy Sullivan and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has spent the past few weeks arguing it can wield power responsibly after Edward Snowden unveiled its sweeping spying programs. Now the administration must prove it can wield power effectively. As the...
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Indiana grain silo explosion kills one

June 24, 2013, 7:41 pm
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – An explosion in a grain silo killed an employee at an agricultural co-op in rural northwestern Indiana on Monday, authorities said. James Swank, 67, of Union Mills was killed in the afternoon explosion at the Co-Alliance fertilizer and grain facility in...
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Comprehensive immigration reform bill passes key test vote in the Senate

June 24, 2013, 7:42 pm
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Hopes of securing a landslide Senate vote in favour of immigration reform were hampered by summer storms on Monday night after several lawmakers were prevented from flying to Washington in time for a key vote. Nevertheless, the efforts to legalise an estimated 11 million undocumented migrants in...
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Silvio Berlusconi found guilty of paying for sex with underage prostitute

June 24, 2013, 7:47 pm
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Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister and head of the main coalition partner in the current government, has been found guilty of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his office to cover it up. In a highly anticipated verdict at the end of a sensational trial that...
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Police thwart man’s plot to ride a horse nude on some stranger’s property

June 24, 2013, 8:37 pm
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A man in Georgia had his hopes of riding on a horse in his birthday suit dashed on Saturday morning when police arrived. Cartersville Patch reported that 29-year-old Kayde Ayoub Said was arrested by police after they found him roaming in a pasture without any pants on. Said reportedly told the...
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Maddow on IRS scandal: This whole thing is over now, right?

June 24, 2013, 9:07 pm
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On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow briefly reported on new revelations regarding the ongoing IRS scandal. A ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee released IRS documents earlier in the day that showed progressive groups — not just tea party organizations —...
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John Oliver: Snowden exposes the blindness of the all-seeing U.S. government

June 24, 2013, 9:21 pm
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The Daily Show host John Oliver on Monday night mocked the failing U.S. efforts to track down and extradite NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Oliver observed that Snowden had ironically exposed the government’s power and its powerlessness. The “all-seeing, all-knowing” government...
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Watch: Texas Republicans gave Sen. Wendy Davis a warning because of this

June 25, 2013, 6:29 pm
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Republicans in the Texas Senate voted to sustain a point-of-order against state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) on Tuesday night because she received help with back-brace. The point-of-order was the second warning she received during her hours long filibuster against legislation that would shutter...
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Democrat Edward Markey wins Massachusetts seat in Senate

June 25, 2013, 7:01 pm
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By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – Veteran Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts on Tuesday won the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry and helped Democrats maintain their majority in the chamber. Markey claimed victory in a post on his official campaign Twitter page, saying:...
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‘Bullsh*t!’ Texas Senate gallery erupts as GOP kills Sen. Wendy Davis’ filibuster

June 25, 2013, 8:54 pm
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The Texas Senate gallery on Tuesday night made it known they were not happy to witness Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst shut down a 10-hour long filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth). The legislative chamber was filed with boos, jeers and chants after Dewhurst announced Davis had violated the...
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Texas Democratic Party chair: Sen. Wendy Davis should run for governor

June 25, 2013, 9:46 pm
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Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, said he hopes that Sen. Wendy Davis (d), who conducted a 10-hour filibuster against a bill that would close all but five abortion clinics in the state and ban all abortions after 20 weeks, will run for statewide office. Speaking to Raw...
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John Oliver: It takes Texas less time to disenfranchise voters than to ‘barbecue a pig’

June 25, 2013, 10:22 pm
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Daily Show substitute host John Oliver ripped apart the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule landmark civil rights legislation on Tuesday, which now has “a hole in it the shape of John Roberts’ middle finger.” “This was a landmark piece of civil rights...
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Watch: Texas state Sen. Leticia Van De Putte sparks 15 minutes of chaos

June 25, 2013, 10:36 pm
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The Texas Senate was deafened by noise coming from the gallery on Tuesday night as Democrats attempted to block an extreme anti-abortion bill. With about ten minutes until the legislative session ended at midnight, Texas state Sen. Leticia Van De Putte (D-San Antonio) was informed she...
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McDonalds has served its last halal McChicken sandwich in the U.S.

June 26, 2013, 3:41 am
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McDonald’s, the largest fast food chain to offer menu alternatives designated for observant Muslims, is removing the items from its menu, suggesting that preparing food exclusively to suit individual religious tastes is problematic for restaurants
  
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‘Don’t touch my junk DNA!’ says gene signal sequence

June 26, 2013, 3:44 am
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Almost all of the human genome is made of noncoding, or “junk” DNA, that is, DNA that usually doesn’t get copied and encoded into proteins.  So when copying DNA, how do cells tell the diference between actual genes and non-coding DNA?  DNA replication
  
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Ancient, cow-sized knobby lizard discovered in Africa

June 26, 2013, 3:51 am
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Even by paleontology standards, this newly discovered lizard was unusual-looking, an outcast in the ancient Earth’s nearly empty deserts. The cow-sized animal, called Bunostegos, or “knobby roof” for the quantity of huge bulbs that dot its face,
  
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