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Silicon Valley’s ugly rich-poor gap is growing

July 9, 2013, 3:05 am
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When Catherine Bracy moved to San Francisco’s Mission district from Chicago to head up the technology team for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, she was struck by the difference half a minute can make…  
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Ex-IMF head Strauss-Kahn denounces treatment in U.S. rape case

July 10, 2013, 4:17 am
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Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the legal principle of being innocent until proven guilty was violated in the sex scandal that brought him down. Strauss-Kahn told CNN he was still angry with the US justice system over his treatment in 2011 when he was paraded before TV cameras in...
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Japanese mobsters print their own motivational magazine

July 10, 2013, 4:22 am
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Japan’s biggest yakuza organised crime group has published a magazine for its members that includes a poetry page and senior gangsters’ fishing diaries, reports said Wednesday. The eight-page publication has been distributed among the Yamaguchi-gumi, a sprawling syndicate believed to...
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Freed Syrian activist: My televised confession was a lie

July 10, 2013, 4:26 am
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Activist Alaa Morelli escaped the worst in Syrian prisons, but to secure her freedom she lied during a forced “confession” on state television, saying the uprising was the work of foreigners. A student of Latakia university located on Syria’s Mediterranean coastline, Morelli, 23,...
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Greek unions announce July 16 general strike against government cuts

July 10, 2013, 4:33 am
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Greece’s main unions on Wednesday said they would hold a general strike on July 16 to oppose a new round of civil service job cuts announced by the government to secure EU-IMF loans. “An emergency meeting of the executive committee has decided to call a 24-hour general strike on July...
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French court seizes tycoon’s assets over fraud charges

July 10, 2013, 4:41 am
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Corruption investigators in France have seized the assets of French tycoon Bernard Tapie, suspected of having committed fraud as part of an organised gang, judicial sources said Wednesday. The charge relates to a 400 million euro ($525m) state payout Tapie received in 2008 when Christine Lagarde,...
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Watch live: George Zimmerman trial

July 10, 2013, 5:40 am
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George Zimmerman faces charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Editor’s note: This is a live feed of a criminal trial and may contain graphic imagery and language that could offend some viewers. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on July 10.
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Activist who loaded shotgun in D.C. arrested on gun and drugs charges

July 10, 2013, 5:57 am
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A Libertarian activist who posted a July Fourth video of himself loading live ammunition into a shotgun in downtown Washington, D.C. was reportedly arrested late Tuesday. Adam Kokesh’s producer and roommate Darrell Young told WRC that the gun activist’s home was searched by U.S. Park...
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Watch live: George W. Bush delivers remarks on immigration

July 10, 2013, 6:15 am
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Former President George W. Bush delivers remarks at a naturalization ceremony of 20 candidates for U.S. citizenship at his presidential library in Dallas, Texas. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on July 10.
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Virginia Gov. did not disclose $120,000 in donations from company he promoted: report

July 10, 2013, 6:15 am
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Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell (R) and his family received another unreported $120,000 from the head of a dietary supplement company he promoted, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. “The rules that I’m following have been rules that have been in place for decades,” McDonnell...
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South Korean court orders Japanese steel company to pay for forced labor in WWII

July 10, 2013, 6:16 am
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A South Korean court on Wednesday ordered a Japanese steel giant to pay compensation over forced wartime labour in what was described as the first ruling of its kind, a report said. The decision marked the latest chapter in a 16-year legal battle launched by four South Koreans, now aged in their...
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Geeks Out and ‘Ender’s Game’ studio spar over film boycott

July 13, 2013, 2:06 pm
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Activist group Geeks Out responded on Saturday to Lionsgate Entertainment’s attempt to distance itself from Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card amid a boycott of the film adaptation organized in response to Card’s anti-LGBT activism. “As Card’s response did earlier in...
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Greek religious relic becomes massive hit in Russia

July 13, 2013, 2:45 pm
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Around 65,000 people have queued for hours in Saint Petersburg to see a religious relic brought from Greece, officials said Saturday, in the latest sign of the Russian Orthodox Church’s influence in post-Soviet Russia. The cross of Saint Andrew — said to be a relic of the X-shaped cross...
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Alaska GOP chair on Palin ‘considering’ Senate run: ‘Never met the lady’

July 13, 2013, 3:11 pm
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) suggestion she may run for a Senate office in Alaska has been received less than warmly by both current lawmakers and the public at large, with the leader of the state GOP saying Palin never contacted him about the idea. “I would think she would want...
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Afghanistan court releases men convicted of torturing 15-year-old bride

July 13, 2013, 3:30 pm
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A court in Kabul ordered the early release of three people convicted over the torture of a child bride, an official confirmed Saturday, in a move denounced by activists as a blow for women’s rights. Sahar Gul, who was 15 at the time her ordeal, was burned, beaten and had her fingernails...
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Police fire rubber bullets, tear gas on Istanbul protesters

July 13, 2013, 4:15 pm
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Turkish riot police on Saturday fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to enter an Istanbul square that was the cradle of deadly unrest that engulfed the country in June. The police moved in when demonstrators protesting in the city’s Beyoglu...
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Former Israeli general reveals existence of new ‘Prisoner X’

July 13, 2013, 5:00 pm
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A former Israeli intelligence chief said on Saturday that authorities held a person in secret during the 1970s but implied that the prisoner was no longer in custody. “Thirty-five years ago, in my post as head of military intelligence, I approved the detention in prison of Prisoner X, in...
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‘Harry Potter’ author revealed to be acclaimed new crime novelist

July 13, 2013, 5:11 pm
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J.K. Rowling, author of the vastly successful Harry Potter book series, also took a successful anonymous leap into the field of crime novels, the Sunday Times reported. Using the nom de plume “Robert Galbraith,” Rowling was unmasked as the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, which...
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U.S. border state still in hands of Mexican conservatives

July 13, 2013, 5:45 pm
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Mexico’s conservative opposition retained the governor’s seat in Baja California after the ruling party candidate conceded defeat Saturday following a recount in the politically crucial state. The state bordering the United States was the biggest prize in the July 7 regional elections...
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New York man hospitalized after starting racially-based confrontation

July 13, 2013, 6:37 pm
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A New York City man was hospitalized after allegedly instigating a confrontation by hurling racist slurs at two black restaurant patrons on Friday. WCBS-TV reported that the altercation took place at a Greenwich Village restaurant after the unidentified victim, described by witnesses as being drunk...
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