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Hemp-made flag to fly over the Capitol on the 4th of July

July 2, 2013, 8:30 pm
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A flag made from hemp will be flown over the U.S. Capitol Building on America’s birthday, according to the Washington Post. Colorado hemp advocate Michael Bowman and Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) are the two responsible for the deed. Bowman said flying the hemp-flag on the 4th of July was a...
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Seven severed heads found by highway in central Mexico

July 3, 2013, 6:24 pm
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Authorities have found seven severed heads stuffed in plastic bags on the edge of a highway near the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco state prosecutors said on Wednesday. The gruesome discovery about 25 miles from the country’s second-biggest city is a reminder of...
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Diversion of Bolivian president’s plane enrages Latin American leaders

July 3, 2013, 6:26 pm
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By Louise Egan and Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Latin American leaders slammed European governments on Wednesday for diverting Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane on rumors it was carrying a wanted former U.S. spy agency contractor, and announced an emergency summit in a...
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Will electric cars ever enter the mainstream?

July 3, 2013, 6:34 pm
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Pardon my metaphor, but is the tank half-empty or half-full when it comes to electric cars? The bad news: start-up electric-car makers Aptera, Better Place, Coda and Fisker are out of business, or close to it. Of the 14.4m cars sold last year in the US, only 52,835 – one out of every 270 cars sold...
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Ohio woman rescued after car falls into 10-foot-deep sinkhole

July 3, 2013, 6:52 pm
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A woman in northwest Ohio who was swallowed by a massive sinkhole on Wednesday managed to escape injury, according to the Toledo Blade. Pamela Knox, 60, was driving down the road around noon when the ground beneath her car disappeared. She ended up in a sinkhole that was more than 10-feet-deep....
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Force of 600 firefighters tighten grip over deadly Arizona wildfire

July 3, 2013, 8:13 pm
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By Tim Gaynor PRESCOTT, Arizona (Reuters) – Firefighters on Wednesday tightened their grip on a blaze in Arizona that killed 19 of their comrades days earlier in the deadliest U.S. wildfire tragedy in 80 years, and officials said they feared more bodies may be found during mop-up operations....
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Douglas Engelbart, inventor of computer mouse, dies at 88

July 3, 2013, 8:14 pm
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By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Douglas Engelbart, a technologist who conceived of the computer mouse and laid out a vision of an Internet decades before others brought those ideas to the mass market, died on Tuesday night. He was 88. His eldest daughter, Gerda, said by telephone that...
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Missing brother of Senator Mark Udall found dead in Wyoming

July 3, 2013, 11:04 pm
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By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Mark Udall’s younger brother, who had been missing for more than a week, was found dead on Wednesday in a Wyoming mountain range, but no foul play was suspected, authorities said. The body of James “Randy” Udall, 61, who had...
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California’s biggest community college loses accreditation

July 3, 2013, 11:07 pm
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By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California’s largest community college might be forced to close next year after regulators voted on Wednesday to strip City College of San Francisco of its accreditation. The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges cited a lack...
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Union ‘fat cat’ stands up for working man’s America’s Cup

July 3, 2013, 11:14 pm
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By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Contenders for the 34th America’s Cup have filled miles of prized San Francisco waterfront property with their yachts and tents and built villages of stores and cafes for a summer of racing that has been heralded as a boon to the local economy....
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Judges stand firm on California prison crowding relief plan

July 3, 2013, 11:20 pm
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By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – A federal court on Wednesday refused to back down from an order requiring California to reduce prison overcrowding by the end of the year, a goal that could force the early release of up to 10,000 inmates. The decision is the latest in a feud between California...
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Internet sites join July 4 protest against surveillance

July 4, 2013, 3:39 pm
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(Reuters) – The online community rallied on Thursday in support of live protests against the U.S. government’s surveillance of internet activity, a practice recently exposed by a former contractor for the National Security Agency. Websites such as Reddit and Mozilla supported a campaign...
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Lock of Mick Jagger’s hair sells for $6,000 at auction

July 4, 2013, 3:46 pm
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LONDON (Reuters) – An anonymous buyer snapped up a lock of Mick Jagger’s hair for 4,000 pounds ($6,000) after bidders pushed the price to double its pre-sale estimate, auction house Bonhams said. The clump of hair was sold by the Rolling Stone’s former girlfriend Chrissie...
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British official urges U.S. to press corruption charges against Murdoch

July 4, 2013, 4:03 pm
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A prominent Labour MP has said US authorities should press corporate corruption charges against Rupert Murdoch’s global empire after he admitted in a secretly recorded meeting with staff on the Sun that payments to police were part of “the culture of Fleet Street”. Chris Bryant,...
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Border vigilante and accused child molester Chris Simcox pleads not guilty

July 4, 2013, 5:28 pm
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Once prominent border security activist Christopher Allen Simcox, co-founder of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, plead not guilty on Wednesday to six felony charges related to child molestation. According to the Phoenix New Times, a probable cause statement filed by detectives in the case cited...
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No risk of pandemic yet from MERS virus: scientists

July 4, 2013, 6:01 pm
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The new MERS coronavirus that has claimed dozens of lives in the Middle East does not yet have the ability to trigger a pandemic, but vigilance is needed in case it mutates, French scientists said on Friday. “Our analysis suggests that MERS-CoV does not yet have pandemic potential,”...
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Privacy group to file Supreme Court petition against NSA surveillance program

July 4, 2013, 6:55 pm
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The Domestic Surveillance Project division of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced Thursday that it plans to file a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) ruling which authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to...
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How hawkmoths jam sonar signals from bats

July 4, 2013, 7:37 pm
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In the dark caves and jungles of the world, there’s an epic 65-million-year evolutionary battle going on between bats and moths. Moths are obviously the underdogs. But scientists are learning that moths have found ingenious ways to counter the weapons…  
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South Africa denies Nelson Mandela in permanent ‘vegetative state’

July 4, 2013, 9:31 pm
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The South African government denied that former president Nelson Mandela is in a permanent vegetative state, as outlined in court documents filed on June 26. ” We confirm our earlier statement released this afternoon after President Jacob Zuma visited Madiba in hospital that Madiba remains in...
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Bolivia’s President Evo Morales threatens to close U.S. embassy

July 4, 2013, 9:35 pm
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Bolivia’s president threatened to close the US embassy as leftist Latin American leaders joined him in blasting Europe and the United States after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions US fugitive Edward Snowden was aboard. President Evo Morales, who has suggested the United States pressured...
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