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Jury finds George Zimmerman not guilty
A six-woman jury in Seminole County, Florida found George Zimmerman not guilty late Saturday for the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Closing arguments in the case ended Friday, with the...
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Lebanese soccer ref testifies: I got match-fixing instructions via YouTube
A Lebanese football referee jailed for accepting sex in exchange for agreeing to rig matches testified Monday that a Singaporean businessman used YouTube to show him how to fix a game. Ali Sabbagh,...
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Prague railway station becomes Holocaust memorial
A Prague railway station that saw tens of thousands of Czech Jews leave for ghettos and Nazi death camps between 1941 and 1945 is to become a memorial for those who died. Czech Jews and Holocaust...
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Nearly 300 dead after typhoon and rains lash China
At least 295 people have been confirmed dead or missing after rainstorms and Typhoon Soulik hit China, causing floods, landslides and buildings to collapse, the government said Monday. Torrential rains...
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U.S. sprint star Tyson Gay out of world championships after failing drug test
Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell, two of the four fastest men in history, sent shockwaves through the blue riband 100m when both men failed drug tests. Gay, the 30-year-old American who was world champion in...
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Soul singer Lester Chambers assaulted over song dedicated to Trayvon
Beyoncé, Jay-Z and A Tribe Called Quest also pay tribute to the 17-year-old shot dead by George Zimmerman The soul singer Lester Chambers was allegedly assaulted at a concert on Saturday night, after...
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Will the Republican Party choose another George W. Bush?
The GOP isn’t necessarily headed for decline. It will likely choose a candidate who appeals to midwestern populists Is the Republican party heading for doom? Some have argued for example that the House...
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When can crowdsourcing compete with supercomputers?
Human Brains as Supercomputers (via slashdot) Data analytics are valuable because of their ability to filter huge volumes of data, pick out the bits that are relevant to a specific question, and set...
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Car flips end over end to land partially in garage of Georgia home
A freak accident in Buford, Georgia, left a house damaged and a car totalled on Sunday when the vehicle flipped end over end before slamming into the garage, WSB-TV reported. Witnesses told WSB they...
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Heroic teen saves Pennsylvania girl from kidnapper
A heroic 15-year-old boy on a bicycle saved a 5-year-old Pennsylvania girl from a kidnapper over the weekend, becoming a community hero in the process. Missing for nearly two-and-a-half-hours,...
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Gingrich: Pro-Trayvon protesters prepared to be a ‘lynch mob’
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Monday compared the protests in support of slain African-American teen Trayvon Martin to a “lynch mob.” Gingrich spoke to CNN’s Michaela...
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China shuts down $88 million mocked museum with ‘fake’ national treasures
Chinese authorities have closed a museum which contained scores of fake exhibits, including a vase decorated with cartoon characters billed as a Qing dynasty artefact, state-run media reported Tuesday....
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden applies for temporary asylum in Russia: lawyer
Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, a pro-Kremlin lawyer said Tuesday, after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of “trapping” him in the...
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There Needs To Be A Third Choice Besides Death Or Arbitrary Restraint By A...
This Tumblr that went up recently called We Are Not Trayvon Martin is an interesting experiment, a way to talk about the role of race and privilege in this case, and how some of us have the...
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Jeremy Scahill warns Stephen Colbert: You might be on drone hit-list
Even Stephen Colbert paused for a second on Monday after journalist and documentarian Jeremy Scahill suggested even he might not be exempt from President Barack Obama’s policy on unmanned drone...
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Bachmann aide busted for stealing ‘birthday money’ from Capitol Hill
An aide to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is out of a job and facing second-degree misdemeanor theft charges after a sting operation caught him allegedly stealing cash from the congresswoman’s office....
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Tea party Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz sign on to military sexual assault bill
Tea party Republican Senators Rand Paul (TN) and Ted Cruz (TX) have joined an effort spearheaded by Democratic Sen. Kristen Gillibrand to take prosecution of military sexual assaults out of the armed...
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FISA court may reveal spying justification given to Yahoo
The federal government must determine what it can release publicly about the justification it gave to search company Yahoo in 2008 for the government’s broad wiretapping efforts, a judge on the Foreign...
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French police arrest Norwegian neo-Nazi metal rocker for planning ‘major...
A Norwegian neo-Nazi black metal rocker was arrested in France on Tuesday over fears he may have been preparing a “major terrorist act”, the interior ministry said. Kristian Vikernes, who goes by the...
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Russians block Antarctic ocean sanctuary
Russia on Tuesday blocked attempts by Western countries to create the world’s largest ocean sanctuary off Antarctica, green groups said. The Russian representative questioned the legal right of a...
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