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Obama appoints Washington attorney as special envoy to close Guantanamo prison
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday chose high-profile Washington, D.C. attorney Clifford Sloan as the state department’s special envoy for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. In a May address, Obama...
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WSJ editorial writer: Military sexual assault reports are part of ‘war on men’
Wall Street Journal editorial writer James Taranto sounded off about the military’s epidemic of sexual assaults on Monday, calling people who report incidents of sexual assaults fakers and accusing...
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Republicans’ latest abortion ban is staggeringly stupid
The white male-dominated Republican party is still living in the stone age on social issues. It just goes from bad to worse It’s a truism verging on dogma that history favors steady progress toward...
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Houston man arrested for threatening to kidnap and murder Ted Cruz
A Houston man is charged with threatening Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), leaving messages at his Austin office this month claiming he would kidnap and murder the freshman senator and his father if they did not...
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Beck: Immigrants ‘learned from the Klan… they are just changing their hood’
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck told Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) on Tuesday that immigrant activists have the “same ideology” as the Ku Klux Klan but they “are just changing their...
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Republican mentions suffering of Jesus amid anti-abortion speech on House floor
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) on Tuesday assured those effected by abortion that they could be healed by the power of Jesus Christ. In a speech on the House floor, Republican congressman said he...
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Google asks court for permission to publish government data requests
WASHINGTON — Google said Tuesday it asked a special US court handling national security investigations for permission to publish the number of government requests for data to the Internet giant. The...
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Tesla Motors to unveil new method to quickly recharge electric cars
Tesla Motors said Thursday it would demonstrate a way to quickly recharge electric cars by swapping drained batteries for fresh power cells. Tesla chief executive and founder Elon Musk used popular the...
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Immigration office tells atheist applicant to prove church membership
A woman who has lived in the United States for 30 years and now hopes to become a naturalized citizen has run into a road block: her lack of religion. Margaret Doughty, 65, of Palacios, Texas applied...
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Chrysler agrees to recall of 2.7 million Jeeps
Chrysler announced Tuesday that it would bow to the US safety regulator’s pressure to recall 2.7 million Jeep Liberties and Jeep Grand Cherokees over a fire risk. Two weeks after rejecting the National...
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Winds on Venus have accelerated to 250 mph over the past six years
Already travelling at super-hurricane speeds, winds on Venus have accelerated by an astonishing one-third over the past six years, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported on Tuesday. Separate teams of...
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Virginia Republican pleads guilty to dozens of counts of voter fraud
A Virginia Republican and supporter of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) pleaded guilty on Tuesday to perjury and 36 counts of voter fraud. Adam Ward, 28, claimed he collected more than 11,000...
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Alleged Klansman accused of inventing truck-mounted death ray for Israel
A General Eclectic mechanic in New York, who allegedly was also a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists after he developed a radiation...
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Parents must teach their children about porn and consent
Suzanne Moore: As we teach kids how to cross the road, so parents must now teach them about porn and consent ‘How was school?” As every parent knows, this question is usually met by a grunt and “Why...
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Study uncovers anti-black attitudes among tea party supporters — but not members
Since its inception back in 2010, critics of the tea party have claimed the conservative movement was motivated wholly or in part by racial animus towards President Barack Obama. Former NAACP chairman...
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Associated Press CEO: Sources will no longer speak to us because of phone...
The US government’s secret seizure of Associated Press phone records had a “chilling effect” on newsgathering by the agency and other news organizations, AP’s top executive said Wednesday. “Some...
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Serena Williams apologizes for saying Steubenville rape victim was ‘lucky’
World number one Serena Williams, a 16-time Grand Slam singles champion preparing to defend her title at Wimbledon, made an apology on Wednesday for comments in Rolling Stone magazine about a rape...
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HPV declining among U.S. teens thanks to vaccine
The number of US girls with the sexually transmitted disease HPV has dropped by about half even though relatively few youths are getting the vaccine, research showed on Wednesday. Human papillomavirus...
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Head of ‘ex-gay therapy’ group apologizes for causing the suffering of LGBT...
The president of an organization that promotes “cures” for gay and lesbian individuals on Wednesday offered a lengthy apology to those harmed by ex-gay therapy. “I cannot simply move on and pretend...
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Three U.S. Naval Academy football players charged with raping unconscious woman
By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. Naval Academy football players have been charged with raping a female midshipman and making false statements, the school said on Wednesday, the latest...
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