A mom in Canada said she was surprised that her children were sent home from day care with a note saying the lunch she’d packed for them was unbalanced. Kristen Bartkiw said she’d packed homemade roast beef, potatoes and carrots for her 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, along with an orange...
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Day care adds Ritz Crackers to kids’ lunches to make them more balanced
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Former NFL linebacker Thomas Howard killed in fiery crash near Oakland
Authorities are investigating a fiery crash that killed a former NFL star whose car slammed into a semi-trailer early Monday in Alameda, California, at more than 100 mph. Witnesses told the California Highway Patrol that 30-year-old Thomas Howard hit speeds up to 110 mph about 1 a.m. on Highway 880...
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Video shows San Francisco police beating man who was riding bike on sidewalk
Police in San Francisco have been accused of brutality after video allegedly showed them beating a man for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk Friday afternoon. The family of D’Paris Charles “DJ” Williams told KPIX that the 20-year-old was listening to music and didn’t hear plainclothes...
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Colbert: Obamacare doesn’t work, so ‘BURN THE GAYS!’
On Monday night, Stephen Colbert threw in his lot with President Barack Obama’s detractors, saying that the difficulties rolling out the Affordable Care Act — also known as “Obamacare” — mean that the whole project to insure the uninsured and needy is a fool’s...
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Democratic state lawmaker Creigh Deeds stabbed, son shot dead in Virginia
Democratic state Senator Creigh Deeds (D-Bath) is in critical condition at the University of Virginia Medical Center after being stabbed on Tuesday morning, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. His son Gus was also fatally shot. State police were called to the lawmakers home in Bath County...
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First-ever municipal abortion ban vote in Albuquerque on Tuesday could spark national trend
In what could be a new strategy for anti-choice Christian groups, Albuquerque voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Under the new restrictions, doctors would not be able to perform so-called late-term abortions within the city...
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Maddow: Cheney family drama is messier than the Kardashians
On Monday night, Rachel Maddow compared Liz Cheney’s fight to win a seat in the U.S. Senate in Wyoming to messy reality TV family the Kardashians. Maddow played video of the three Kardashian daughters heatedly arguing as a lead into discussing the fact that Liz Cheney and her sister Mary are...
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The Ur-Debate Over Health Care
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy This clip from Chris Hayes’ show on Friday is the smartest thing I’ve seen about the ongoing battle over health care reform. It’s been frustrating watching people who really ought to know better give...
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UN chief ‘deeply concerned’ over lacking climate action
United Nations leader Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he was ‘deeply concerned’ that countries were not doing enough to limit global warming. “I am deeply concerned that the scale of our action is still insufficient to limit the global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius (3.6...
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Amsterdam offers chronic alcoholics free beer if they clean up the streets
At nine o’clock in the morning in a garden shed behind a house in Amsterdam, a handful of alcoholics are getting ready to clean the surrounding streets, beer and cigarette in hand. For a day’s work, the men receive 10 euros (around $13), a half-packet of rolling tobacco and, most...
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Tesla Motors seeks to annihilate ‘false perception’ about fire risk of electric cars
A US government agency said Tuesday it was investigating fires in Tesla electric vehicles, as the company ordered modifications aimed at reducing what it called a negligible risk. The move by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration came after Tesla requested such a probe, saying it...
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Not a belieber: Mexico says Justin Bieber lied about meeting President Nieto
Sorry Justin Bieber, Mexico’s president is apparently not a belieber. The Canadian pop star’s controversy-filled tour of Latin America took a new twist in Mexico after Bieber’s claim that he met with President Enrique Pena Nieto was swiftly denied by the government. Before a...
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Prosecutors drop bigamy charges against Nelson Mandela’s grandson
South Africa’s state prosecutor said Tuesday that charges of grave tampering and bigamy have been dropped against Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla, who had been embroiled in a bitter family feud. In July, Mandla Mandela was charged with tampering with the graves of some of his famous...
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Obama’s approval rating plummets amid health care debacle
President Barack Obama’s approval rating has fallen sharply because of the botched launch of his signature health care plan, says a poll out Tuesday. His overall approval rating stands at 42 percent, dropping six points in a month in the Washington Post-ABC News poll, his lowest rating yet....
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Twitter pulls Shebab accounts as group boasts of Kenya attack
As gunshots and explosions rocked Nairobi’s Westgate mall, those behind the horrifying attack used Twitter to provide something of a running commentary of events. “What Kenyans are witnessing at #Westgate is retributive justice for crimes committed by their military,”...
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Matt Lewis finally has an original thought and it’s a dumb one
Little noticed Matt Lewis, who writes for Tucker Carlson’s George Zimmerman Fan-Fic website, has been a conservative writer on the intertubes for years during which he has never expressed an opinion that wasn’t carefully modulated in such a way that he couldn’t land a job working...
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Hawaii lawmaker ‘solves’ homeless problem by destroying their stuff with a sledgehammer
A Democratic state representative in Hawaii says he wanted to do something constructive to solve the state’s homeless situation so he has taken to the streets and is destroying people’s possessions with a sledgehammer. “I got tired of telling people I’m trying to pass...
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Watch: Two philosophers and a theoretical physicist debate science and morality
Can science tell us how we should behave? Philosophers Daniel Dennett and Massimo Pigliucci, along with theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, debated that question last month during a discussion on the “Limits of Science” in Belgium. Krauss claimed ethics was impossible without...
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Greg Abbott links Wendy Davis to ‘Satan’ after ‘illegal immigrant’ game is cancelled
Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate for Texas governor, has responded to the news that a former staffer had organized a “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” game at the University of Texas at Austin by linking his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Wendy Davis, to Satanism. Former Abbott staffer and...
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Elizabeth Warren: Social Security is effective and popular, so let’s expand it
Add Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to the growing chorus of voices calling for the expansion of Social Security benefits. The progressive favorite implored Democrats on the Senate floor Monday not to chain Social Security benefits to the rate of inflation or the rise in prices, which is known in...
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