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British inventor of the World Wide Web scolds ‘insidious’ Western governments...
LONDON (Reuters) – The British inventor of the World Wide Web accused Western governments of hypocrisy in spying on the Internet while lecturing repressive leaders across the world for doing exactly...
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Pennsylvania Republican silences gay lawmaker for ‘open rebellion against’ God
A Republican lawmaker told NewsWorks he silenced an openly gay member of the Pennsylvania House on Wednesday because he was rebelling against God’s law. State Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia) had...
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Google working on a videogame console: report
Google is working on a videogame console and smart watch powered by Android software that has been a hit in smartphones and tablets, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Journal cited unnamed...
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16-year-old student in Turkey turns bananas into plastic
There’s nothing slippery about Elif Bilgin’s idea of using banana peels as a substitute for old-school petroleum-based plastics. The 16-year-old student from Istanbul spent two years perfecting a way...
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NYPD collaborated with CIA on surveillance after 9/11
Campaigners for greater accountability at New York’s powerful police force have seized on a report that details for the first time the extent of the collaboration between the CIA and the NYPD in the...
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Senator Claire McCaskill takes on rape culture in rebuke of Wall Street...
A US senator has delivered a rebuke to a Wall Street Journal columnist who accused her of waging a crusade to criminalise male sexuality and of being “histrionic” about sexual assault in the military....
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Mummified women found in massive pre-Incan burial tomb in Peru
LIMA (Reuters) – Archaeologists in Peru on Thursday said they have unearthed a massive royal tomb full of mummified women that provides clues about the enigmatic Wari empire that ruled the Andes long...
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Ohio Democrat warns GOP: ‘Warrior women’ are coming for the unrelenting...
State Senator Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) warned Republicans on Thursday that “warrior women” wouldn’t tolerate their attempts to control their bodies. During a rally at the Ohio Statehouse in protest of...
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Obama flies to South Africa as his hero Nelson Mandela hangs on to life
US President Barack Obama flies to South Africa Friday hoping to pay homage to the legacy of his critically ill hero Nelson Mandela, who is fighting for his life in hospital. Mandela’s ill health means...
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Colorado theater gunman James Holmes to be bolted to courtroom floor for trial
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado judge ruled on Thursday that accused theater gunman James Holmes will tethered to the courtroom floor by a cable for security reasons during his murder...
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John Oliver on GOP reaction to gay marriage: What is it with these people and...
Thursday night on The Daily Show, host John Oliver lampooned the overblown condemnation of the Supreme Court’s landmark marriage rulings. He noted that Republicans always seemed to arrive at the same...
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NASA picks Florida agency to take over shuttle landing strip
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA has selected Space Florida, a state-backed economic development agency, to take over operations, maintenance and development of the space...
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Court order clears the way for marriage equality in California
Same sex couples in California can marry again as of Friday afternoon, after a federal appeals court lifted the stay on an injunction declaring the state law banning them unconstitutional. The Los...
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Sequester forces Justice Department to offer unpaid positions
The Department of Justice has an opening for what could be a dream job for many newly minted lawyers: serving as a special attorney in the Office of Enforcement Operations. Among other...
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Researchers: ‘Parrot Dinosaur’ learned to walk upright like human child
'Parrot dinosaur' walked on all fours, then graduated to two (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) A baby in a dinosaur costume can do a laudable imitation of how a young dinosaur might have...
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Republicans enlisting sports world’s help against Obamacare
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is urging the National Football League and other professional sports leagues not to support President Barack Obama’s...
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American citizen dies amid anti-government protests in Egypt
By Patrick Kingsley, The Guardian US citizen dies in Alexandria as tensions rise between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi Egypt suffered renewed outbreaks of violence on Friday as...
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Chris Christie blocks Medicare expansion for New Jersey
(Reuters) – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoed a bill that would have expanded Medicaid eligibility under the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said on Friday, in an apparent...
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California woman gets life in prison for severing husband’s penis
A 50-year-old California woman was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for drugging her husband and cutting his penis off with a kitchen knife, KABC-TV reported. Catherine Kieu was found guilty of...
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Facebook to launch ‘blacklist’ of offensive pages
Social networking company to apply new measures from Monday following pressure from advertisers Facebook is to crack down on ads running next to offensive material by launching a new system that will...
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