By Laila Kearney SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Northern California city of Richmond on Friday sued Chevron Corp, saying the company was willfully negligent in a massive refinery fire and a smoke cloud last year that sent thousands of people to hospitals. Richmond city officials filed the...
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Richmond, California sues Chevron over massive oil refinery fire that sent thousands of people to hospitals
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Protest over Taiwanese military conscript’s death draws 100,000
More than 100,000 Taiwanese people took to the streets Saturday in protest over the death of a young conscript who was allegedly abused in the military. Singing a Taiwanese take on the revolutionary song “Do you hear the people sing?” from the hit musical “Les Miserables”,...
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Mexican president released from hospital after thyroid surgery
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto left hospital Saturday saying he felt fine after undergoing surgery to remove a thyroid nodule and he hoped to fully return to work next week. “I feel very good, and very encouraged,” the 47-year-old leader told journalists as he exited the military...
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Spectators hurt when power plant demolition goes wrong in California
Flying shrapnel from a power plant demolition injured spectators who were gathered to watch the buildings go down on Saturday in Bakersfield, California. According to the Bakersfield Californian, several bystanders were hurt, including a 43-year-old man who could lose both his legs. Police...
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Gay couple ordered to ride in back of bus by New Mexico bus driver
Two men who flew into Albuquerque, New Mexico were ordered to sit in the back of their airport bus because they were holding hands. According to Albuquerque’s KRQE, Ron McCoy and Chris Bowers traveled from Portland, Oregon to take part in Albuquerque’s LGBT PrideFest, arriving in New...
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Fox contributor: LGBT love is like Cleveland kidnapper Castro’s ‘love’ for victims
In a discussion on Friday about how marriage equality and LGBT rights are responsible for gang violence in Chicago and the collapse of society, Fox News contributor and American Family Association radio host Sandy Rios and anti-LGBT evangelical pastor Erwin Lutzer compared the love LGBT couples...
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NRA opens Midwest museum showing nearly 1,000 firearms
By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – The National Rifle Association has opened an elaborate museum in the American Midwest, displaying nearly 1,000 firearms, including those used by French Emperor Napoleon and Hollywood cowboy star John Wayne, along with subtle reminders of the...
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Lesbian candidate struggles to win women’s vote in New York mayor’s race
By Francesca Trianni NEW YORK (Reuters) – At Cubbyhole, a popular New York lesbian bar, for every two revelers who praised City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, in her race to become the city’s first woman and first openly gay mayor, one complained about her style and political...
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Bernie Sanders: Walmart family’s ‘obscene’ wealth subsidized by taxpayers
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show” on Saturday and scoffed at the idea that major corporations like Walmart can’t afford to pay their workers a living wage and that to raise the U.S. minimum wage would be bad for the economy. Sanders said that...
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Clooney slams hedge funders: ‘They get bailed out’ but ‘nobody gets fired’
In an interview published Friday with Mike Fleming Jr. of Yahoo! Movies, actor George Clooney took a swipe at hedge funds, saying that the multi-billion dollar investment groups often ruin businesses with their obsession with the bottom line. Then they get bailed out by the government and are never...
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Newsweek sold to all-digital news publisher IBT Media
The once-influential US publication Newsweek is being sold to the all-digital news publisher IBT Media, the company said. Terms of the deal were not disclosed as the transaction is expected to close “in the coming days,” the IBT statement read. IBT Media is acquiring Newsweek and the...
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Scientists cook world’s first lab-grown, in-vitro hamburger
By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) – A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world’s first lab-grown beef burger. The in-vitro burger, cultured from cattle stem cells, the first...
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Pakistan to go global with ‘Burka Avenger’ superhero animation
Pakistan’s new cartoon superhero who fights bad guys disguised in a flowing black burka is set to go global, her creator told AFP, with plans afoot to broadcast the show in 60 countries. The Urdu-language animation “Burka Avenger”, showing the adventures of a mild-mannered teacher...
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Cleveland man shoots friend who was trying to stop him from drunk driving
A man Cleveland man told police that he was shot in the chest after he tried to stop his friend from driving drunk. WOIO reported that Cleveland’s Second District was investigating a shooting that happened at around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday night. Java Bowling III, 43, said he got in an argument...
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Election officials catch dead man donating $100,000 to Sen. Mitch McConnell
Officials with a Kentucky super PAC supporting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blame a computer error for a $100,000 contribution that appeared more than a month after the donor died. Meanwhile, the Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit to lift limits on posthumous donations....
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The Pill, the Rhythm Method, and Why “Nature” Isn’t An Argument
The naturalistic fallacy grates on my nerves more than many other logical fallacies, in a way that is no doubt due in part to having been a sickly child whose access to good health care through my dad’s government job benefits made life much more liveable, or hell, survivable. (Like many...
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Irish man battles U.S. extradition request for running largest child porn network on the planet
Man alleged to be behind Freedom Hosting, service provider for many hidden sites, battles FBI request for extradition to US. Freedom Hosting, described by an FBI special agent as “the largest facilitator of child porn on the planet”, has been taken down as part of a year-long operation...
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Thousands now using online gun sales to avoid background checks: report
Online gun sales have become a haven for buyers looking to avoid background checks, leading gun safety advocates concerned they are becoming more of a problem than sales at private gun shows, according to a new report by a progressive think tank, the Washington Post reported on Monday. “At...
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Fox News and Trump complain: Blacks say ‘cracker’ but we can’t use the N-word
Conservative mogul Donald Trump and the hosts of Fox & Friends on Monday complained that African-American Democrats were allowed to say the word “cracker,” but celebrity cook Paula Deen was “crucified” for using the N-word. During a weekly segment with Trump, Fox News...
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Hackers now stashing child pornography on business websites
A new study from an online watchdog group shows a surge in complaints that hackers are manipulating both adult and regular business sites to spread viruses and images of children being sexually assaulted. According to the BBC, the group, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), has tracked 227 reports...
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