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South Korea orders history textbook revisions in political battle over...
South Korea’s Education Ministry has ordered revisions to a number of high school history textbooks, part of a long-running ideological battle over the narrative of modern Korean nationhood. In a...
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Police say Arizona couple held three teen girls captive for two years in...
Police in Arizona are investigating a “house of horrors” where three teenage girls were imprisoned for two years and abused by their mother and stepfather. The three girls, aged 17, 13 and 12, were...
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Brother’s ‘bomb’ prank shuts down San Diego freeway to Thanksgiving travelers
A prank played by a brother on his sister blocked San Diego’s Interstate 15 for much of Thanksgiving afternoon. Police said the man called his sister from an unfamiliar number, disguised his voice and...
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Three unpublished J.D. Salinger stories leaked online via eBay
Three stories by the notoriously reclusive author J.D. Salinger were leaked online Wednesday. They were being auctioned as a book on eBay, but an anonymous Reddit contributor noticed that the seller...
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Three Libyan soldiers wounded in new Benghazi attack
Three Libyan soldiers have been seriously wounded in a new attack in the eastern city of Benghazi after deadly clashes with jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia, a security official said Friday....
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Mexico leader’s anti-crime pledge tested in first year
Gruesome mass graves, relentless drug cartels and emerging vigilantes have put Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s pledge to reduce violence to the test in his first year in power. Pena Nieto has...
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Somalis struggle after devastating cyclone wipes out livestock
More than 100,000 people are struggling in Somalia’s cyclone-hit northeastern Puntland region, aid agencies warned Friday, saying floodwaters had wiped out the livestock two-thirds of the people...
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Improvised rocket launchers fired near U.S. base in Japan
Improvised rocket launchers were fired close to a US airbase near Tokyo, police and the American military said Friday, with suspicions falling on one of Japan’s small ultra-leftist groups. No-one was...
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NATO probes Afghan airstrike that killed two-year-old boy
US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan on Friday vowed to investigate an airstrike that President Hamid Karzai said killed a two-year-old boy, as acrimony deepens over a deal to allow US troops to stay in...
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Walmart on Black Friday: Scenes from the apocalypse
A Sheriff’s department in western Virginia confirms this morning that a scuffle over a parking spot at a Walmart in Tazewell County resulted in a stabbing, which is, of course, how we know that the...
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Noam Chomsky: Modern universities designed to ‘deprive you of your freedom’
The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) released an interview with Noam Chomsky recently in which the noted linguist discussed, among other things, how high student tuition indoctrinates...
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Erik Estrada stars in conservative legal drama promoting religion in public...
The anti-gay Liberty Counsel is releasing a feature film early next year about high school students putting on a religious-themed theater production at their public school. The Christian conservative...
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Policeman allegedly murdered man he met through a cannibalism website
This morning, police in the German city of Dresden announced they had arrested one of their own, identified as “Detlev G.,” for the murder of a 59-year-old man from Hannover. According to police,...
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North Dakota white supremacist hospitalized after hunger strike
North Dakota white supremacist Craig Cobb has been taken from jail to a hospital after refusing to eat while in custody. According to KXNE News, Cobb has been in custody for nine days after he and...
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Muslim scholar Reza Aslan: Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin would call Jesus a...
Religious scholar Reza Aslan said American conservatives are basing their criticism of recent comments made by Pope Francis on a “profoundly unhistorical view of Jesus.” The pontiff has ruffled the...
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Vatican charity arm turns pope’s words into action
Tucked away in a corner of the Vatican City, a team of priests is hard at work turning Pope Francis’s social words into action with discreet daily rounds of charity-giving based on letters sent to the...
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British officials burned ‘embarrassing’ colonial documents
British officials burned and dumped at sea documents from colonies that were about to become independent in a systematic effort to hide their “dirty” secrets, newly released files showed on Friday....
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Iran agrees to freeze nuclear program by January
Iran’s six-month freeze of its nuclear programme agreed with world powers in Geneva will start by early January, Tehran’s envoy to the UN atomic watchdog said Friday. “We expect that either at the end...
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NASA plans to grow turnips on the Moon by 2015
Scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center have proposed an experiment that would put a garden on the moon. The lunar “greenhouse” will likely arrive on the moon as payload on an unmanned Google Lunar...
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DHS agent cites private medical history to deny disabled Canadian woman entry...
A Canadian woman said she was denied entry into the U.S. by a Customs and Border Protection Agent who cited her hospitalization last year for clinical depression. Ellen Richardson, of Weston, Ontario,...
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