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Silicon Valley’s ugly rich-poor gap is growing
When Catherine Bracy moved to San Francisco’s Mission district from Chicago to head up the technology team for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, she was struck by the difference half a...
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Ex-IMF head Strauss-Kahn denounces treatment in U.S. rape case
Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the legal principle of being innocent until proven guilty was violated in the sex scandal that brought him down. Strauss-Kahn told CNN he was still...
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Japanese mobsters print their own motivational magazine
Japan’s biggest yakuza organised crime group has published a magazine for its members that includes a poetry page and senior gangsters’ fishing diaries, reports said Wednesday. The eight-page...
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Freed Syrian activist: My televised confession was a lie
Activist Alaa Morelli escaped the worst in Syrian prisons, but to secure her freedom she lied during a forced “confession” on state television, saying the uprising was the work of foreigners. A student...
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Greek unions announce July 16 general strike against government cuts
Greece’s main unions on Wednesday said they would hold a general strike on July 16 to oppose a new round of civil service job cuts announced by the government to secure EU-IMF loans. “An emergency...
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French court seizes tycoon’s assets over fraud charges
Corruption investigators in France have seized the assets of French tycoon Bernard Tapie, suspected of having committed fraud as part of an organised gang, judicial sources said Wednesday. The charge...
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Watch live: George Zimmerman trial
George Zimmerman faces charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Editor’s note: This is a live feed of a criminal trial and may contain graphic imagery and language that...
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Activist who loaded shotgun in D.C. arrested on gun and drugs charges
A Libertarian activist who posted a July Fourth video of himself loading live ammunition into a shotgun in downtown Washington, D.C. was reportedly arrested late Tuesday. Adam Kokesh’s producer and...
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Watch live: George W. Bush delivers remarks on immigration
Former President George W. Bush delivers remarks at a naturalization ceremony of 20 candidates for U.S. citizenship at his presidential library in Dallas, Texas. Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on...
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Virginia Gov. did not disclose $120,000 in donations from company he...
Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell (R) and his family received another unreported $120,000 from the head of a dietary supplement company he promoted, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. “The rules that...
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South Korean court orders Japanese steel company to pay for forced labor in WWII
A South Korean court on Wednesday ordered a Japanese steel giant to pay compensation over forced wartime labour in what was described as the first ruling of its kind, a report said. The decision marked...
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Geeks Out and ‘Ender’s Game’ studio spar over film boycott
Activist group Geeks Out responded on Saturday to Lionsgate Entertainment’s attempt to distance itself from Ender’s Game author Orson Scott Card amid a boycott of the film adaptation organized in...
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Greek religious relic becomes massive hit in Russia
Around 65,000 people have queued for hours in Saint Petersburg to see a religious relic brought from Greece, officials said Saturday, in the latest sign of the Russian Orthodox Church’s influence in...
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Alaska GOP chair on Palin ‘considering’ Senate run: ‘Never met the lady’
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R) suggestion she may run for a Senate office in Alaska has been received less than warmly by both current lawmakers and the public at large, with the leader of the...
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Afghanistan court releases men convicted of torturing 15-year-old bride
A court in Kabul ordered the early release of three people convicted over the torture of a child bride, an official confirmed Saturday, in a move denounced by activists as a blow for women’s rights....
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Police fire rubber bullets, tear gas on Istanbul protesters
Turkish riot police on Saturday fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters trying to enter an Istanbul square that was the cradle of deadly unrest that engulfed...
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Former Israeli general reveals existence of new ‘Prisoner X’
A former Israeli intelligence chief said on Saturday that authorities held a person in secret during the 1970s but implied that the prisoner was no longer in custody. “Thirty-five years ago, in my post...
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‘Harry Potter’ author revealed to be acclaimed new crime novelist
J.K. Rowling, author of the vastly successful Harry Potter book series, also took a successful anonymous leap into the field of crime novels, the Sunday Times reported. Using the nom de plume “Robert...
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U.S. border state still in hands of Mexican conservatives
Mexico’s conservative opposition retained the governor’s seat in Baja California after the ruling party candidate conceded defeat Saturday following a recount in the politically crucial state. The...
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New York man hospitalized after starting racially-based confrontation
A New York City man was hospitalized after allegedly instigating a confrontation by hurling racist slurs at two black restaurant patrons on Friday. WCBS-TV reported that the altercation took place at a...
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