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Dave Zirin tells Moyers: Protesting at the Olympics more powerful than...
Progressive sportswriter Dave Zirin made the case for the United States taking part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia in an interview with Bill Moyers on Friday. “I’m horrified by not just the...
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South Korean troops kill man trying to swim North
South Korean troops shot dead a man trying to swim across a border river into North Korea on Monday after he ignored repeated warnings to turn back, the defence ministry said. A mistry spokesman said...
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‘Shocking’ church child abuse investigation underway in Australia
An Australian inquiry into church and institutional child abuse began public hearings Monday, with warnings that widespread and “shocking” allegations would be heard against places of worship,...
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300,000 central Japan households told to evacuate as Typhoon Man-yi hits
Typhoon Man-yi hit central Japan Monday, with almost 300,000 households told to evacuate and fears the storm could go on to hit the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The typhoon made landfall in...
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Nobel laureates urge end to Syria hospital attacks, say system is on the...
Fifty leaders in world medicine, including three winners of the Nobel prize, on Monday urged all combatants in Syria to spare hospitals, doctors and nurses, warning that the country’s medical...
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Fox News host: new Miss America, Nina Davuluri, doesn’t ‘represent American...
The crowning of Miss New York, Nina Davuluri, as Miss America should have been, to paraphrase her platform, a celebration of diversity through cultural competency. But in the hours after her victory,...
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$303,000 found in safe swept away by Indian flood
Workers clearing rubble in a flood-devastated town in the Indian Himalayas have discovered 19 million rupees ($303,000) in a safe which had been swept away by floodwaters, police said Monday. The safe...
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Sidelined Frace still determined to go after Assad
Sidelined from the US-Russia negotiations on chemical weapons, France is determined that demands for President Bashar al-Assad to be tried for war crimes do not drop off the rapidly shifting...
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Somalia’s ‘New Deal’ to drive recovery from civil war
International donors met Monday to approve a “New Deal” for Somalia to drive its economic and political recovery after two decades of bloody civil war. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud faced one of “the...
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WATCH LIVE: Salvage crews raise shipwrecked Costa Concordia
Watch live video as salvage crews attempt to pull the Costa Concordia upright. The cruise ship hit a rock off the coast of Italy after sailing to close to the shore and capsized. The ship has been...
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WATCH LIVE: ‘Active shooter’ at Washington Navy Yard
The United States Navy is reporting that there’s an “active shooter” at the Washington Navy Yard, inside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, as of 9:03 a.m. Eastern Standard Time....
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U.S. woman sexually assaulted by Roman Polanski tells her story in memoir
The woman sexually assaulted by filmmaker Roman Polanski 36 years ago, when she was a girl of 13, has published her memoir, saying it was time to “take back ownership of my own story.” “The Girl: A...
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U.S. ‘lower class’ booming even as poverty rate holds steady
US poverty rate steady at 15 percent, but ‘lower class’ is booming (via The Christian Science Monitor) A group of boys walk past a partially collapsed row house in Baltimore in April. According to new...
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Stewart dismantles CNN for ‘deliberate’ vomiting of chaos instead of good...
Jon Stewart picked apart what he described as the “breathless wrongness” of CNN’s coverage of Monday’s Washington Navy Yard shooting on The Daily Show Tuesday night, as the centerpiece of his analysis...
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Colbert: Segregation ensues after Obama pits the .1 percent against the 1...
On Tuesday, Stephen Colbert attacked the Obama administration’s attacks on society’s most vulnerable: the ridiculously wealthy. “We’re living in the People’s Republic of Obamastan. I would give all my...
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China’s second-richest man injured in ‘accidental’ knife attack
Multi-billionaire Zong Qinghou, China’s second richest man, was attacked and injured by a would-be job applicant wielding a knife, official media said Wednesday. Zong, China’s richest man until he was...
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Penis-bite rugby player vows to fight ban
Bad boy Australian rugby league player Anthony Watts on Wednesday denied he bit an opponent on the penis and vowed to fight an eight-match ban. The 27-year-old was suspended last week by the Gold Coast...
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US to seize New York skyscraper secretly owned by Iran
The United States is set seize control of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper prosecutors claim is secretly owned by Iran, the justice department said, though the ruling is to be appealed. The seizure and...
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Yahoo Japan develops 3D search engine-printer
Yahoo Japan Corp. has developed a voice-activated Internet search that links to a 3D printer, letting users look online for blueprints to deliver solid objects in a few minutes, the company said. The...
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Starbucks CEO to gun rights advocates: ‘Guns are not a part of the Starbucks...
In an open letter released today, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said that Starbucks will now “respectfully request” that gun owners not bring their guns into Starbucks, even in states where “open” or...
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