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‘Insolvent’ Detroit moves closer to filing for bankruptcy
By Bernie Woodall and Steve Neavling DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit said on Friday it would stop making payments on some of its about $18.5 billion debt, which would put it in default, and the “insolvent”...
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Chambliss: Don’t put ‘any limits’ on U.S. involvement in Syria
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) on Sunday declared that President Barack Obama should not put “any limits” on U.S. military involvement in the civil war that’s being waged in Syria. “I don’t think you can...
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MSNBC’s Ari Melber explains why DNA collection is a civil rights issue
MSNBC host Ari Melber on Sunday warned that collecting the DNA samples of every arrested individual would have a disproportionately negative impact on African Americans. Earlier this month, the Supreme...
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Pope Francis blesses hundreds of Harley-Davidson enthusiasts in St. Peter’s...
Hundreds of Harley-Davidson enthusiasts from all over the world received the pope’s blessing on Sunday, drawing cheers and applause from pilgrims gathered in St Peter’s Square for a pro-life mass. Pope...
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‘Notion of what is an unreasonable level of paranoia has shifted’ says...
News of a massive surveillance effort led by the secretive National Security Agency has sent Web users scrambling to find new ways to avoid tracking. It might have seemed paranoid not long ago when...
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Senator Marco Rubio says immigration reform about 96 percent ready
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he still supports a bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration, but reiterated that he wants its stipulations on border security to be...
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Seven arrested for selling drugs from disabled man’s home
Santa Cruz police arrested seven people Thursday after they were found allegedly using the home of a disabled man for illegal activities. Deputy Chief Steve Clark told KTVU that officers searched the...
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Kurtz: Zimmerman trial ‘media overload’ makes justice system seem unfair to...
CNN media critic Howard Kurtz worried on Sunday that cable news was already spending too much time covering George Zimmerman’s trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin, and that the “racially...
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White House: Iran can be partner of U.S. if they halt ‘illicit’ nuclear program
Iran’s new president will find a partner in the United States if he comes clean on the Islamic republic’s controversial nuclear program, a senior White House official said Sunday. Moderate cleric...
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Obama doesn’t believe secret NSA surveillance violated privacy rights: chief...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone records and Internet data has violated Americans’ privacy...
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Texas ‘witch’ mom beats down robber then runs him over with minivan
Confronted by a knife-wielding robber who sprang out of the back seat of her minivan on Friday, a Texas mother did what she had to in order to protect her two young sons, crashing into a telephone...
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Colombia sees rise in use of ‘zombie’ drug that affects victims for hours
Last year in Colombia, over 1,200 people were dosed by criminals with a so-called “zombie” drug that makes victims compliant and happy to say or do anything their captors tell them to. Frighteningly,...
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Conan dredges up unseen Nicolas Cage audition for ‘Lincoln’
In an online exclusive segment published Monday, late night talk show host Conan O’Brien featured “Big Bang Theory” comedian Simon Helberg auditioning for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” as legendary...
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Ted Cruz adding voter ID to immigration bill to reverse Supreme Court ruling
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reacted to a Monday Supreme Court ruling striking down an Arizona law requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship by declaring that he would add a voter ID requirement to the...
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Victim of alleged Naval football assault speaks out: ‘He thought it was funny’
A Naval Academy cadet whose allegations against three of the school’s football players for sexual assault recently became public. The woman and her mother, who both requested that their names and faces...
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Man on Newark-bound plane claims he poisoned passengers
An inbound flight landing at New Jersey’s Newark-Liberty International Airport was met by FBI agents Monday after a passenger claimed he poisoned everyone on board. Several hours into the flight, which...
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How the Patriot Act debate became about library records instead of phone records
By Justin Elliott, ProPublica In the months following the October 2001, passage of the Patriot Act, there was a heated public debate about the very provision of the law that we now know the government...
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Republicans push ‘religious freedom’ provision to weaken repeal of ‘Don’t...
Republican senators on Monday touted a “religious freedom” provision in the annual defense spending bill that critics say would provide a “license to bully” LGBT service members. The provision,...
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The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You...
Thanks, Center For Inquiry, for upholding the public’s worst stereotypes about atheists. Here’s an update on the Center for Inquiry situation for those who are following. One of the oldest, most...
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Jury clears penile implant doctor of negligence in the case of the 8-month...
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A jury on Monday cleared a doctor of negligence in a lawsuit filed by a Delaware truck driver who underwent a penile implant procedure and ended up with an erection...
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