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National Domestic Workers Alliance’s Ai-Jen Poo: ‘There’s a lot of cultural...
This year at Netroots Nation, Raw Story was asking 5 Questions of various panel speakers, exhibitors and attendees about issues you didn’t hear addressed on the main stage. As the director of the...
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Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa considering request to give Edward Snowden...
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, who has given the United States headaches throughout his tenure, risks more trouble if he grants political asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden. Much...
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Snapchat market value hits $800 million
The startup behind a Snapchat application for sharing self-destructing smartphone photos and messages got a dizzying valuation on Monday in a new funding round. Reports that the company launched in...
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Same-sex couples anxiously wait for Supreme Court marriage ruling
By Ronnie Cohen and Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – The Reverend Paul Mowry, a minister at the Sausalito Presbyterian Church near San Francisco, awoke at 6:30 a.m. Monday, hoping it would be the day the...
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Obama administration fights claims of incompetence as Snowden saga continues
By Andy Sullivan and David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has spent the past few weeks arguing it can wield power responsibly after Edward Snowden unveiled its sweeping spying...
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Indiana grain silo explosion kills one
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – An explosion in a grain silo killed an employee at an agricultural co-op in rural northwestern Indiana on Monday, authorities said. James Swank, 67, of Union Mills was...
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Comprehensive immigration reform bill passes key test vote in the Senate
Hopes of securing a landslide Senate vote in favour of immigration reform were hampered by summer storms on Monday night after several lawmakers were prevented from flying to Washington in time for a...
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Silvio Berlusconi found guilty of paying for sex with underage prostitute
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister and head of the main coalition partner in the current government, has been found guilty of paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abusing...
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Police thwart man’s plot to ride a horse nude on some stranger’s property
A man in Georgia had his hopes of riding on a horse in his birthday suit dashed on Saturday morning when police arrived. Cartersville Patch reported that 29-year-old Kayde Ayoub Said was arrested by...
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Maddow on IRS scandal: This whole thing is over now, right?
On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow briefly reported on new revelations regarding the ongoing IRS scandal. A ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee released IRS documents...
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John Oliver: Snowden exposes the blindness of the all-seeing U.S. government
The Daily Show host John Oliver on Monday night mocked the failing U.S. efforts to track down and extradite NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Oliver observed that Snowden had ironically exposed the...
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Watch: Texas Republicans gave Sen. Wendy Davis a warning because of this
Republicans in the Texas Senate voted to sustain a point-of-order against state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth) on Tuesday night because she received help with back-brace. The point-of-order was the...
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Democrat Edward Markey wins Massachusetts seat in Senate
By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – Veteran Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts on Tuesday won the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry and helped Democrats maintain their majority in the...
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‘Bullsh*t!’ Texas Senate gallery erupts as GOP kills Sen. Wendy Davis’...
The Texas Senate gallery on Tuesday night made it known they were not happy to witness Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst shut down a 10-hour long filibuster by state Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth). The...
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Texas Democratic Party chair: Sen. Wendy Davis should run for governor
Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, said he hopes that Sen. Wendy Davis (d), who conducted a 10-hour filibuster against a bill that would close all but five abortion clinics in...
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John Oliver: It takes Texas less time to disenfranchise voters than to...
Daily Show substitute host John Oliver ripped apart the Supreme Court’s decision to overrule landmark civil rights legislation on Tuesday, which now has “a hole in it the shape of John Roberts’ middle...
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Watch: Texas state Sen. Leticia Van De Putte sparks 15 minutes of chaos
The Texas Senate was deafened by noise coming from the gallery on Tuesday night as Democrats attempted to block an extreme anti-abortion bill. With about ten minutes until the legislative session ended...
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McDonalds has served its last halal McChicken sandwich in the U.S.
McDonald’s, the largest fast food chain to offer menu alternatives designated for observant Muslims, is removing the items from its menu, suggesting that preparing food exclusively to suit individual...
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‘Don’t touch my junk DNA!’ says gene signal sequence
Almost all of the human genome is made of noncoding, or “junk” DNA, that is, DNA that usually doesn’t get copied and encoded into proteins. So when copying DNA, how do cells tell the diference between...
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Ancient, cow-sized knobby lizard discovered in Africa
Even by paleontology standards, this newly discovered lizard was unusual-looking, an outcast in the ancient Earth’s nearly empty deserts. The cow-sized animal, called Bunostegos, or “knobby roof” for...
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