Federal officials raided more than a dozen marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, with some of the targeted outlets saying they were left in the dark as to the reasons why. The Denver Post reported that no arrests were carried out in the raids, which were carried out by the Drug Enforcement...
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‘No explanation’ for federal raid on Denver-area pot dealers
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Jon Stewart mocks Mitch McConnell’s warning to Democrats: Someday you will want to be obstructionist a*sholes
Daily Show host Jon Stewart poked fun at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) warning to Democrats that ending the long-standing abuse of the filibuster by invoking what pundits insist on calling the “nuclear option” would come back to haunt them. “Mark my...
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Aldous Huxley: Prophet of our brave new digital dystopia
CS Lewis may be getting a plaque. But Huxley, for his foretelling of a society that loves servitude, is the true visionary On 22 November 1963 the world was too preoccupied with the Kennedy assassination to pay much attention to the passing of two writers from the other side of the Atlantic: CS...
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China tests first stealth combat drone, state media reports
China has tested its first stealth combat drone, state media said Friday, citing online photos of an aircraft resembling a shrunken U.S. B2 bomber and hailing the advance toward Western-level technology. The test flight of the “Sharp Sword” unmanned aircraft is another step in...
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Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel released on $1.2 million bond after murder conviction vacated
A judge on Thursday released Michael Skakel, a member of the famed Kennedy clan, on $1.2 million bail after his conviction in the murder of his teenaged neighbor was set aside. Skakel, 53, a nephew of slain politician Robert F. Kennedy, was found guilty in 2002 of the murder of Martha Moxley. He...
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Vancouver bans doorknobs in future construction
The city of Vancouver has banned doorknobs in new construction, a city official said Thursday. Wrist-twisting doorknobs will be replaced with levers to make it easier on seniors and those with disabilities, city spokeswoman Viviana Zanocco told AFP. The new rules are included in an amended building...
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LG admits collecting data on viewer habits but promises to correct ‘bug’
South Korea’s LG Electronics said Friday it would correct a “bug” on some of its smart TVs after admitting they send information about viewers back to the company without their permission. The world’s second largest TV maker launched an investigation after UK-based IT...
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Who was the best Doctor Who?
As Doctor Who celebrates its 50th, it’s time to study the numbers and settle this once and for all. Well, maybe For the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, I thought I’d take a look at which doctors were associated with the highest rated episodes, and which season has been rated the most...
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Brazilian who auctioned off virginity wants to sell it again
A 21-year-old Brazilian woman who auctioned off her virginity online for $780,000 last year now says she wants to sell it again as the deal was never consummated. In October last year, Catarina Migliorini took part in an online auction as part of the “Virgins Wanted” documentary...
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Animated documentary film brings Chomsky’s ideas to life and reveals his human side
French filmmaker Michel Gondry is releasing an animated documentary feature Friday in select theaters on the linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky. The independent project, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? was self-produced by the Oscar-nominated director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless...
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White supremacist flyers posted around Eastern Kentucky University campus
White supremacists at Eastern Kentucky University have circulated flyers in campus buildings frequented by police and firefighting trainees. The flyers claim that the “war declared against whites” in the form of “anti-racist” campaigns amounts to genocide: “[t]he...
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Maddow: Why is a quack ‘ex-gay therapist’ on staff at the U.S. Air Force Academy?
On Thursday night’s edition of her show, Rachel Maddow talked about the long history of undue influence by evangelical Christians over the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, CO. That influence has demonstrably gone too far, she said, when an advocate of the discredited,...
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Ohio sheriff to drug users: Please make sure you’re buying heroin, not krokodil
An Ohio sheriff said he’s so alarmed by the apparent arrival of the synthetic opiate krokodil that he’s promised not to charge anyone who hands over the drug to his office. Sheriff Pat Kelly said he decided to make the offer after authorities in Athens County confirmed a woman there had used the...
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Poetry breaks through fog of Alzheimer’s sufferers
A teenager’s voice breaks the silence that hangs over the dozing, grey-haired figures. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,” she recites — “you’ll be a man, my son”, finishes one of the pensioners, with a...
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‘Monstrosity! Ludicrous! Insane!’ Huge ‘Youabian Puma’ car raises eyebrows at LA auto show
One car among the hundreds on display at the LA Auto Show this week has generated a flurry of headlines — not all of them complimentary. Despite its whopping $1.1 million price tag, the bright blue Youabian Puma has been called everything from “monstrosity” to...
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Antarctic ice lab sees sub-atomic particles in space
Ghostly sub-atomic particles called neutrinos in outer space have been glimpsed from an icy observatory in Antarctica, offering a rare new view of the universe, scientists said Thursday. These high-energy particles are everywhere, and billions pass though our bodies every second, according to Kara...
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Siats meekerorum: Meet the dinosaur that terrorized Tyrannosaurus rex
Palaeontologists on Friday announced they had uncovered the remains of one of the greatest land predators ever — a nine-metre (30-foot) four-tonne dinosaur that stalked the planet 100 million years ago. The newly-discovered species has been called Siats meekerorum, whose first name honours a...
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Rhino poaching nearly outpaces births, group warns
Deaths of rhinos by poaching are fast approaching a tipping point, with the number of endangered creatures killed annually nearly outnumbering births for the first time, international experts warned Friday. South Africa is the epicenter of the crisis, with a record 827 black and white rhinos killed...
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Alabama grants three posthumous pardons in notorious ‘Scottsboro Boys’ case
Three black American men wrongly accused and convicted of raping two white women in Alabama more than 80 years ago have received posthumous pardons. The gesture to the last three of the nine so-called “Scottsboro Boys” in a notorious case of racial discrimination brought an end to a...
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Philippine typhoon death toll passes 5,200
The number of people confirmed killed when a super typhoon devastated the Philippines surpassed 5,200 on Friday, the government said, making it one of the country’s deadliest natural disasters. The official death toll from the storm jumped by nearly 1,200 to 5,209, with another 1,611 people...
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