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Conservatives freak out over Lena Dunham’s peculiar Memorial Day tweet
Conservatives lashed out at actress and filmmaker Lena Dunham on Monday over her odd Memorial Day message. On the day Americans are supposed to commemorate the ultimate sacrifices made by the country’s...
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Canadian scientists revive ‘Little Ice Age’ plant frozen 400 years under...
Scientists in Alberta said this week they’ve revived a plant that was trapped under glacier ice for some 400 years or more, discovered during an exploration of Canada’s Teardrop Glacier in 2007. The...
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Nebraska lawmaker’s ‘biggest mystery’ is women: ‘They don’t even understand...
A Republican state senator in Nebraska says that his “biggest mystery” is women because they “don’t even understand themselves.” In responses to a questionnaire published by the Journal Star on Tuesday...
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Republicans get three times more ‘false’ ratings from PolitiFact than Democrats
An analysis of PolitiFact ratings suggests Republicans are significantly less credible than Democrats. The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University found Republican’s had made...
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U.S. shuts down digital currency service Liberty Reserve in money laundering...
The United States on Tuesday unveiled the world’s “largest” money laundering probe targeting the digital currency operator Liberty Reserve, striking a major blow against what a prosecutor termed the...
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Chinese hackers jeopardize secrecy of U.S. weapons programs
Chinese hackers have gained access to secret designs for a slew of sophisticated US weapons programs, officials said Tuesday, possibly jeopardizing the American military’s technological edge. The...
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Feminist analysis of video game tropes booted off YouTube within hours
Within hours of being uploaded to YouTube, a video analyzing the portrayal of women in video games was removed for an alleged “Terms of Service” violation. Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist media critic...
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International trio take Russian Soyuz rocket to space station
An international trio blasted off Wednesday on top of a Russian Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station with a busy schedule full of space walks and a docking with a pioneering US cargo craft....
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Freight train derails near Baltimore causing massive explosion
A freight train plowed into a garbage truck and derailed Tuesday near the US city of Baltimore, triggering a fire and a massive explosion that injured a driver and was reportedly felt for miles....
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Two U.S. embassy personnel shot in Venezuela
Two employees of the US embassy in Venezuela were shot and wounded early Tuesday in the capital Caracas, in a murky incident that local media and a police source said took place at a strip club. “We...
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Facebook agrees to work on removing gender-based hate
Facing a growing boycott from advertisers, Facebook on Tuesday said efforts to remove content that trivialized or incited violence against women would be increased. “In recent days, it has become clear...
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High school security guard arrested for threatening to shoot up school
A man was arrested earlier this week for a terrorist threat against Nyack High School in New York, where he was employed as a security officer. Kenneth A. Carter, 51, was arrested May 22 without...
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Republicans accuse Eric Holder of misleading Congress over leak investigations
Eric Holder has been accused of misleading Congress over his involvement in aggressively investigating journalists for security leaks, forcing the White House to repeatedly defend its embattled...
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Undeterred by setbacks, Newtown families plan to end NRA’s stranglehold on...
Terri Rousseau is a member of what she calls “the saddest club in the world”. She was forced to join it on 14 December last year when her daughter, Lauren, a teacher at Sandy Hook elementary school in...
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Larry King moves to Kremlin-funded station RT
Legendary US television presenter Larry King announced Wednesday that he was moving his show to a Kremlin-funded TV station that primarily broadcasts Moscow’s views on world affairs. RT channel...
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Canada’s Miss Universe competition embarrassingly crowns wrong winner
Losing is never easy, but for one unlucky contestant in Canada’s Miss Universe competition the bad news came 24 hours later — after she’d been crowned the winner. Red-faced organizers admitted on...
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Citigroup settles lawsuit over federal securities law violations
Citigroup has settled a lawsuit by the US Federal Housing Finance Agency over the sale of home mortgage-backed securities to government-backed lenders, a court document showed Wednesday. According to...
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Bird ancestor reclaims its branch on tree of life
Venerated for 150 years as the forebear of all birds until being relegated two years ago to the common class of winged dinosaurs, the Archaeopteryx was restored to its hallowed branch on the tree of...
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Newsweek up for sale yet again: report
Newsweek, the longtime news magazine which ended its print publication last year in favor of digital, is up for sale again, according to a leaked memo seen Wednesday. The first report on the possible...
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Maine governor: Might as well go home and ‘get our guns’ over alleged censorship
Maine’s Republican governor Paul LePage has voiced new outrage over the alleged censorship of his speech in the Statehouse. “It’s freedom of speech,” he told reporters on Wednesday, according to the...
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