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Researchers open centuries-old tomb in search of Mona Lisa’s identity
By Isla Binnie FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Researchers opened a centuries-old Florence tomb on Friday in a search for remains that could confirm the identity of the woman whose enigmatic smile Leonardo...
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Why is Gibraltar a British territory?
SPAIN is protesting to Britain again about a certain rocky outcrop at the neck of the Mediterranean. Gibraltar, a 2.6 square mile (6.7 square kilometre) peninsula that is home to about 30,000 people,...
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Two confirmed dead, others missing in Connecticut after plane crashes into...
Two people were confirmed dead and others feared missing after a twin-engine light aircraft crashed into two houses in the US state of Connecticut. The Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B...
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NOAA’s updated forecast calls for busy hurricane season
NOAA’s Updated Forecast Calls for Busy Hurricane Season (via Climate Central) By Andrew Freedman Follow @afreedma Despite a quiet start to August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is...
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The real Elysium: Send your dead loved one into space for $2K
If you want to go to space, you can go to school, study hard, get good grades, work for a few years, then wheedle your way into NASA and apply to be an astronaut. Or you can be a celebrity or a...
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Xenophobic Australian quits election race after Islam gaffe
A candidate for Australia’s anti-immigration One Nation party dropped out of the election race Saturday after a blundering interview in which she referred to Islam as a country. Stephanie Banister, 27,...
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Android nears 80 percent market share as iOS plummets
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google’s Android mobile operating system now accounts for almost 80 percent of the global smartphone market while Apple’s slice has shrunk to 13 percent, the latest numbers from...
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GOP Rep. to ‘birther princess’: ‘I don’t even give a sh*t’ about Obama’s...
Freshman Republican congressman from Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin rebuked a so-called “birther princess” at a town hall meeting on Thursday, calling the question of President Barack Obama’s true...
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Maddow slams Bob ‘Gov. Ultrasound’ McDonnell’s emergency PR tour
On Friday night’s edition of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow slammed Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R)’s efforts to shore up his flagging image by going on a state wide PR junket. McDonnell...
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Filipino farmers destroy genetically modified ‘Golden Rice’ crops
A group of activist farmers in the Philippines stormed a government research facility and destroyed an area of genetically modified rice crops the size of 10 football fields. According to New...
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Bryan Fischer praises Russia: You’re not homophobic, you’re ‘homo-realistic’
On Friday, Voice of Russia Radio presented an interview with homosexuality “expert” and Christian radio host Bryan Fischer, who praised that country’s campaign of violence and intimidation against LGBT...
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‘Deep Throat’ owners fight on: ‘We’re sending a cease and desist to iTunes’
Hours earlier, a New York judge had refused to grant his injunction against Harvey Weinstein to halt the release of the movie “Lovelace.” The judge — an 83-year old veteran of the bench, first...
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Poland is getting fracked
In recent years, the fiercely independent people of Poland have found themselves caught up in the global hunt for natural resources. In this case, it’s natural gas, and the chemical fracking that...
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Hispanic GOP strategist smacks down Steve King: Get therapy for your ‘melon...
Hispanic Republican strategist Ana Navarro blasted Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on Sunday and suggested that he might want to “get some therapy for his melon fixation” after the congressman said that many...
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Larry Kudlow wonders if Pope Francis understands freedom
CNBC host Larry Kudlow isn’t confident that Pope Francis understand freedom. During a segment last week, the advocate of laissez-faire capitalism questioned some of the Pope’s comments on the economy....
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Birtherism bites Cruz: Trump says he’s ‘perhaps not’ eligible to run for...
The country’s most prominent Republican birther says that one of his party’s early frontrunners for the 2016 presidential nomination may “perhaps not” be eligible to run if he was born in Canada. In an...
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Fed up with homosexuality, religious family takes ‘leap of faith’ and gets...
An Arizona family fed up with abortion, homosexuality, taxes and the “state-controlled church” will fly back home Sunday after being lost at sea for months. Hannah Gastonguay told the Associated Press...
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Nelson Mandela making ‘a slow but steady improvement’
Nelson Mandela is making “slow but steady” progress back to health, although he remains critically ill, the office of the South African president said Sunday. The 95-year-old former president and...
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A Texan tragedy: Plenty of oil, but no water
Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for...
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Gohmert: Opposition to Obamacare is ‘how we got to the Constitution’
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Sunday asserted that the Republican obsession with repealing President Barack Obama’s health care reform law and threatening to shut down the government if it was not...
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