Residents of a neighborhood in Virginia say that an angry driver mistakenly shot himself in the groin after they flagged him down for speeding around children. Neighbors in a Norfolk community told WTKR that they never thought that asking 43-year-old Rhonney Jacobs to slow down would escalate into...
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Driver shoots self in groin after neighbors stop him for speeding around kids
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IRS manual detailed DEA’s secret spying program
By John Shiffman and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two...
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New study finds high levels of arsenic in groundwater near fracking sites
By Theodoric Meyer, ProPublica A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale. While the findings are far from conclusive, the...
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Judge orders defense lawyers to remain with alleged Fort Hood shooter
FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) – The judge in the court-martial of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of a mass shooting denied a request by his standby defense lawyers to reduce their role, and ordered them Thursday to continue assisting Major Nidal Hasan. The three lawyers had asked military...
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Dogs yawn along with their masters: study
Tired dog lovers who think their pet pooch is yawning right along with them may just be right, according to a Japanese study. Dubbed “contagious yawning”, the new research says man’s best friend can sense human fatigue and, in a possible show of empathy, will join humans in a big...
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Steve King: We might not notice ‘if sea levels go up 4 or 6 inches’
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Tuesday managed to insult both religious Americans and climate scientists while denying the existence of global warming. During the kickoff for the Americans for Prosperity-sponsored “Bruce Braley Big Government Tour” in Fort Dodge, King explained that attempts...
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Controversial ‘ex-gay’ gospel singer to appear at MLK tribute with Obama
Donnie McClurkin — a Christian gospel singer who controversially claims that Jesus helped him eliminate his attractions to other men — is set to appear at a celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr., an event at which President Barack Obama is slated to speak. According to LGBT...
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Oakland woman disappears after seeking information about missing dog
Police are searching for a 50-year-old Bay Area woman who went missing after someone contacted her about ransom for her dog that disappeared after a break-in in May. Police told KNTV on Wednesday that Sandra Coke, who recently moved to the area from New Jersey, was last seen on Sunday at 8:30 p.m....
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Fox contributor: LGBT relationships don’t last — ‘certainly not among gay men’
On Tuesday, Fox News contributor and AM talk radio host Sandy Rios doubled down on her claims that the love between LGBT people is unnatural and more akin to the “love” professed by Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro and his victims. According to Right Wing Watch, Rios claimed that the...
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Huckabee: Muslims are ‘uncorked animals’ after praying to Allah
Fox News host Mike Huckabee recently asserted that Muslims spend their holy day by praying at the Mosque and then acting “like uncorked animals.” During his Monday radio show, Huckabee discussed the closing of U.S. embassies in the Middle East and said the he knew it was politically...
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Taiwan upholds first transgender marriage
Taiwanese authorities have agreed to uphold the marriage status of a local transgender couple, reversing a previous official decision in a ruling activists said would help the bid to legalise same sex marriage. In what was hailed as a “benchmark” ruling, Taiwan’s Ministry of the...
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Scott Brown’s brother arrested with arsenal after impersonating officer and commandeering boat
The brother of former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) is facing multiple charge for impersonating an officer after police in Connecticut found him with an arsenal of weapons, and witness said that he commandeered a boat. According to a statement from the Connecticut State Police on Thursday, residents...
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Women push to pray in the same room as men at British mosques
In the damp basement room of a Caribbean restaurant in London, Naima leads prayers for an audience of male and female worshippers. They face Mecca, directed by an arrow scrawled on a blackboard in pink chalk. But Naima — she did not want to give her full name — had just begun the...
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Iowa investigating anti-LGBT group over secret donors
The anti-LGBT group the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is currently under investigation by Iowa state officials for purported ethics violations in its campaign to unseat three state supreme court judges who voted to make same sex marriage legal in the state. According to Des Moines’...
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Appeals court sides with railroads in class action suit against fuel surcharge conspiracy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday vacated a trial court’s decision to certify a class action against railroad companies, a procedural win for the companies in a case about whether they illegally colluded to fix the price of fuel surcharges. A unanimous panel of the...
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Revealed: Secret NSA loophole allows data gathering on U.S. citizens without a warrant
Exclusive: Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans’ communications The National Security Agency has a secret backdoor into its vast databases under a legal authority enabling it to search for US citizens’ email and phone calls without a...
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Detroit city officials misplace $1 million check for a month
Officials in the financially beleaguered city of Detroit misplaced a $1 million check made out to the city’s school system for a month. According to Bloomberg News, the fact that the check languished in a drawer, forgotten, for weeks from late February to March is another sign of the city...
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Gun advocates stage ‘appreciation day’ with weapons at Newtown Starbucks
A group of gun advocates in Connecticut on Friday are planning to bring their weapons for an “appreciation day” at a Starbucks in Newtown, where 20 children were slaughtered in a school shooting just last year. Over 3,000 people have signed up to participate in a Facebook event called...
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FCC votes to lower costly prison telephone rates — effective immediately
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted on Friday to reduce prison telephone rates that had made it far more expensive for prison inmates to make phone calls than it is outside prison walls. The commission voted 2-1 to reduce interstate phone...
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Conservative group with ties to Koch brothers slams Democratic Senator for holding ‘Stand Your Ground’ hearings
The Cato Institute, a prominent conservative think tank with ties to the Koch brothers, released the letter its president, John Allison, sent in response to what he calls the “blatant violation of our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and to petition the government for a redress of...
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