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Jury finds George Zimmerman not guilty

July 13, 2013, 7:02 pm
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A six-woman jury in Seminole County, Florida found George Zimmerman not guilty late Saturday for the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Closing arguments in the case ended Friday, with the jury pausing during deliberations on Saturday to ask Judge Debra Nelson for clarification on their...
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Lebanese soccer ref testifies: I got match-fixing instructions via YouTube

July 15, 2013, 4:16 am
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A Lebanese football referee jailed for accepting sex in exchange for agreeing to rig matches testified Monday that a Singaporean businessman used YouTube to show him how to fix a game. Ali Sabbagh, speaking on the first day of the trial of Eric Ding Si Yang, said the businessman sent him “20...
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Prague railway station becomes Holocaust memorial

July 15, 2013, 4:23 am
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A Prague railway station that saw tens of thousands of Czech Jews leave for ghettos and Nazi death camps between 1941 and 1945 is to become a memorial for those who died. Czech Jews and Holocaust survivors have for years been calling for a memorial for the Prague-Bubny station, which last year...
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Nearly 300 dead after typhoon and rains lash China

July 15, 2013, 4:30 am
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At least 295 people have been confirmed dead or missing after rainstorms and Typhoon Soulik hit China, causing floods, landslides and buildings to collapse, the government said Monday. Torrential rains have battered the southwestern province of Sichuan since July 7 and have led to 68 deaths, with...
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U.S. sprint star Tyson Gay out of world championships after failing drug test

July 15, 2013, 4:36 am
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Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, two of the four fastest men in history, sent shockwaves through the blue riband 100m when both men failed drug tests. Gay, the 30-year-old American who was world champion in 2007 and the fastest man in the world this year, tested positive for a banned substance and...
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Soul singer Lester Chambers assaulted over song dedicated to Trayvon

July 15, 2013, 5:55 am
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Beyoncé, Jay-Z and A Tribe Called Quest also pay tribute to the 17-year-old shot dead by George Zimmerman The soul singer Lester Chambers was allegedly assaulted at a concert on Saturday night, after he dedicated a song to Trayvon Martin. Hours after George Zimmerman was acquitted for...
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Will the Republican Party choose another George W. Bush?

July 15, 2013, 6:02 am
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The GOP isn’t necessarily headed for decline. It will likely choose a candidate who appeals to midwestern populists Is the Republican party heading for doom? Some have argued for example that the House GOP’s hardcore conservatism will hurt them with moderates. Others believe the House...
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When can crowdsourcing compete with supercomputers?

July 15, 2013, 6:05 am
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Human Brains as Supercomputers (via slashdot) Data analytics are valuable because of their ability to filter huge volumes of data, pick out the bits that are relevant to a specific question, and set those aside for analysis. The process may be valuable, but can also be expensive. It’s also...
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Car flips end over end to land partially in garage of Georgia home

July 15, 2013, 6:34 am
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A freak accident in Buford, Georgia, left a house damaged and a car totalled on Sunday when the vehicle flipped end over end before slamming into the garage, WSB-TV reported. Witnesses told WSB they estimated the car was doing around 70 miles an hour after the driver apparently lost control. The...
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Heroic teen saves Pennsylvania girl from kidnapper

July 15, 2013, 6:40 am
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A heroic 15-year-old boy on a bicycle saved a 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl from a kidnapper over the weekend, becoming a community hero in the process. Missing for nearly two-and-a-half-hours, authorities were only moments away from issuing an Amber Alert for the girl when she was returned, CNN...
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Gingrich: Pro-Trayvon protesters prepared to be a ‘lynch mob’

July 15, 2013, 6:45 am
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Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Monday compared the protests in support of slain African-American teen Trayvon Martin to a “lynch mob.” Gingrich spoke to CNN’s Michaela Pereira on Monday morning after people around the country reacted to a jury’s...
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China shuts down $88 million mocked museum with ‘fake’ national treasures

July 16, 2013, 4:23 am
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Chinese authorities have closed a museum which contained scores of fake exhibits, including a vase decorated with cartoon characters billed as a Qing dynasty artefact, state-run media reported Tuesday. The facility, built in northern China’s Hebei province at a cost of 540 million yuan ($88...
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden applies for temporary asylum in Russia: lawyer

July 16, 2013, 4:50 am
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Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, a pro-Kremlin lawyer said Tuesday, after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of “trapping” him in the country. Snowden, wanted by the United States for revealing sensational details of its...
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There Needs To Be A Third Choice Besides Death Or Arbitrary Restraint By A Madman

July 16, 2013, 5:37 am
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This Tumblr that went up recently called We Are Not Trayvon Martin is an interesting experiment, a way to talk about the role of race and privilege in this case, and how some of us have the privilege—which should be a right!—of being at least safe from would-be vigilantes deciding to...
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Jeremy Scahill warns Stephen Colbert: You might be on drone hit-list

July 16, 2013, 5:40 am
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Even Stephen Colbert paused for a second on Monday after journalist and documentarian Jeremy Scahill suggested even he might not be exempt from President Barack Obama’s policy on unmanned drone strikes. “It doesn’t trouble you that the President of the United States is asserting...
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Bachmann aide busted for stealing ‘birthday money’ from Capitol Hill

July 16, 2013, 5:59 am
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An aide to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is out of a job and facing second-degree misdemeanor theft charges after a sting operation caught him allegedly stealing cash from the congresswoman’s office. WRC reported that U.S. Capitol Police arrested 37-year-old Javier Sanchez on July 11 for two...
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Tea party Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz sign on to military sexual assault bill

July 16, 2013, 6:16 am
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Tea party Republican Senators Rand Paul (TN) and Ted Cruz (TX) have joined an effort spearheaded by Democratic Sen. Kristen Gillibrand to take prosecution of military sexual assaults out of the armed forces chain of command and place it in civilian hands. According to Politico, the two outspoken...
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FISA court may reveal spying justification given to Yahoo

July 16, 2013, 6:24 am
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The federal government must determine what it can release publicly about the justification it gave to search company Yahoo in 2008 for the government’s broad wiretapping efforts, a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) ruled on Monday (PDF). Judge Reggie B. Walton gave...
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French police arrest Norwegian neo-Nazi metal rocker for planning ‘major terrorist act’

July 16, 2013, 6:37 am
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A Norwegian neo-Nazi black metal rocker was arrested in France on Tuesday over fears he may have been preparing a “major terrorist act”, the interior ministry said. Kristian Vikernes, who goes by the stage name of “Varg” and is reportedly linked to Norwegian mass killer...
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Russians block Antarctic ocean sanctuary

July 16, 2013, 6:39 am
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Russia on Tuesday blocked attempts by Western countries to create the world’s largest ocean sanctuary off Antarctica, green groups said. The Russian representative questioned the legal right of a meeting in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, to declare such a haven, according to organisations at...
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