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New IRIS telescope sends stunning images of sun to befuddled scientists

July 25, 2013, 10:25 pm
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Scientists say IRIS, launched last month, will help shed light…  
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Pope Francis asks Brazil’s youth to help ‘the innocent and the defenseless’

July 26, 2013, 5:00 pm
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By Philip Pullella and Anthony Boadle RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged young people on Friday to change a world where food is discarded while millions go hungry, where racism and violence still affront human dignity and where politics is more associated with corruption than...
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Former Tiffany & Co. exec pleads guilty to stealing $2.1 million in jewelry

July 26, 2013, 5:05 pm
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By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former executive at jeweler Tiffany & Co pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than $2 million worth of jewelry from her one-time employer. Ingrid Lederhaas-Okun, 46, a former vice president of product development, pleaded guilty to a count of...
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Zimmerman’s brother warns: Civil suit ‘might not be very flattering’ for Trayvon Martin’s family

July 26, 2013, 5:46 pm
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Robert Zimmerman, whose younger brother George was acquitted for his role in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, told The Huffington Post on Friday that a civil suit might lead to unpleasant facts coming to light about the Florida teenager’s family. “A myriad of things that were...
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Apple restores some access to developers’ website after attack

July 26, 2013, 5:55 pm
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By Aman Shah (Reuters) – Apple Inc has partially restored its main website for developers, eight days after shuttering it in response to a cyber attack that prompted a harried upgrade to prevent future breaches. Apple’s developer site, which the company uses to communicate with its...
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Highway Patrol officer accused of sexual battery against disabled man

July 26, 2013, 6:44 pm
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A California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer was arrested and charged with sexual battery and disorderly conduct on Friday for allegedly touching a 22-year-old disabled man inappropriately inside a shopping mall bathroom. The Sacramento Bee reported that 47-year-old Jeffery Closson, a 25-year veteran...
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Seven killed, hundreds injured in new round of dueling protests in Egypt

July 26, 2013, 6:56 pm
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By Asma Alsharif and Matt Robinson CAIRO (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed and hundreds wounded in scattered violence across Egypt during mass rallies for and against the army’s overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, who was placed under investigation for murder....
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Judge in Bradley Manning trial begins weighing her verdict

July 26, 2013, 7:07 pm
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The military judge overseeing the trial of US soldier Bradley Manning over his massive transfer of secret files to WikiLeaks began considering her verdict after closing arguments. After hearing the final statements at Fort Meade outside Washington, Colonel Denise Lind closed the court. She is...
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JPMorgan Chase stops selling physical commodities amid federal pressure

July 26, 2013, 7:30 pm
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By David Sheppard and Jonathan Leff NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co is exiting physical commodities trading, the bank said in a surprise statement on Friday, as Wall Street’s role in the trading of raw materials comes under unprecedented political and regulatory pressure....
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Schools damaged in Texas plant explosion to get $2.75 million from FEMA

July 26, 2013, 8:00 pm
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By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS, Texas (Reuters) – Schools damaged by a West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion will receive $2.75 million in federal funds for temporary classrooms and administrative buildings, the government said Friday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said the money...
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Maher confronts liberal priest: ‘God in the Old Testament is a psychotic mass murderer’

July 26, 2013, 9:07 pm
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Real Time host and aggressive non-theist Bill Maher grilled a progressive minister on Friday over the litany of contradictions he found between the written word of the Bible and how many people actually interpret its teachings. “It’s pro-slavery, pro-polygamy, it’s...
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NC Governor admits: ‘I don’t know enough’ about parts of new voting restriction law

July 27, 2013, 3:20 pm
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) indicated on Friday he would sign a restrictive new law governing voting registrations in his state while admitting he was not familiar with one provision forbidding 17-year-olds from registering in advance of their 18th birthday. “I don’t know...
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Kerry asks Egyptian leaders to pull country ‘back from the brink’

July 27, 2013, 3:30 pm
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By Arshad Mohammed and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Egypt’s leaders must pull their country “back from the brink,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday, saying Egypt was at a pivotal moment after the killing of dozens of protesters. Egyptian security...
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Blood pressure medications shown to help slow dementia

July 27, 2013, 3:47 pm
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A class of drugs designed to lower blood pressure also slightly brakes the progression of dementia among the elderly and may even boost brain power marginally, a study published on Friday said. Doctors in Cork, Ireland, looked at data from a long-term study involving 361 patients aged in their late...
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Friends defend suspect driver in Spanish train disaster

July 27, 2013, 4:25 pm
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Some paint him as a reckless man who boasted about driving his Spanish trains at massive speed, before crashing one, leaving 78 people dead and 178 injured. Francisco Jose Garzon Amo’s friends and neighbours tell a different story. The grey-haired driver has not appeared in public since he...
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CNN anchor Don Lemon: Bill O’Reilly ‘doesn’t go far enough’ in criticizing African-Americans

July 27, 2013, 4:51 pm
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CNN anchor Don Lemon came to the defense of Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Saturday regarding O’Reilly’s heavily-criticized take regarding crime in the African-American community. “In my estimation, he doesn’t go far enough,” Lemon said in a commentary, before...
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Abuse at Ecuadorian ‘gay conversion’ facilities shocks authorities

July 27, 2013, 5:00 pm
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Sent to a center offering to “cure” her attraction to women, Denisse Freire was raped and tortured — in a practice Ecuadoran authorities admit has been tolerated for too long. The country of 15.8 million people has at least 80 unlicensed drug and alcohol rehab clinics, many that...
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Bride-to-be thought dead in freak speedboat accident

July 27, 2013, 5:16 pm
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The pilot of a speedboat that was carrying six members of a wedding party when it crashed into a barge on the Hudson River was charged on Saturday with vehicular manslaughter in the death of one of the passengers, reported as the bride-to-be. Jojo John, 35, was also...
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Florida activists denied food during sit-in at state Capitol

July 27, 2013, 5:51 pm
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Police at the Florida state Capitol refused to allow food deliveries on Saturday to a student group that has been engaged in a sit-in there for the past 12 days, before apparently reversing their decision hours later. The Miami Herald reported on Saturday that a delivery to members of the Dream...
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NBC criticized for broadcasting anti-LGBT Russia’s 2014 Winter Olympics

July 27, 2013, 6:52 pm
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Officials at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) promised on Friday that visitors and competitors in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia would not be affected by the country’s anti-LGBT “propaganda” law, amid growing protests against both American participation...
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