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Egypt detains prominent secular activist again
An Egyptian prosecutor ordered Monday the detention of a prominent secular activist for taking part in an unauthorised protest, just a day after he was freed over a similar case, state media reported....
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U.S. Navy deploys new surveillance aircraft to Japan
The US Navy has deployed sophisticated surveillance aircraft to Japan, officials said Monday, amid rising tension over China’s territorial claims in the region. Two P-8A Poseidon patrol jets departed...
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Philly church bans member over LGBT activism: ‘You are not in covenant with us’
A gay man said that he was asked to leave his Philadelphia church after he began participating in LGBT activism. Andrew Stahler told CityPaper that Circle of Hope church seemed to be accepting of his...
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department hires officers accused of sex abuse...
Dozens of applicants were hired by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department although background checks turned up evidence of serious misconduct, according to a newspaper analysis. The Los Angeles...
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Giant mirrors at Fox News terrorize comedians who attended Huckabee taping...
Comedians Joe Mande and Noah Garfinkel went on The Pete Holmes Show last week and told him exactly why neither he, nor anyone else, should ever attend a taping of Fox News’s Huckabee while high. “We...
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Tea party activist: ‘Jesus Christ is weeping in heaven’ over pope’s criticism...
Yet another conservative has taken issue with critical comments made by Pope Francis on capitalism and “trickle-down” economics. Tea party activist Jonathon Moseley published a World Net Daily column...
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Texas cops handcuff and take 13-year-old white girl from black guardians
Houston Police have refused to explain why they took a 13-year-old white girl from her two black guardians over the weekend and placed her in the custody of Child Protective Services. Landry Thompson’s...
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Jeff Bezos’s alleged ‘plan’ for Amazon drone deliveries is little more than a...
The future is here! Flying robots will, any second now, be delivering your Christmas books, DVDs and gadgets to your door within 30 minutes of you ordering them, thanks to a new initiative announced by...
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Are-We-There-Yet?-American just wants to go home because we aren’t there yet
You may remember that about a month ago, which is four score and seven years ago to the iPhone generation for whom a Japandroids download that takes over 20 seconds is an eternity times infinity, that...
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Elderly woman sues private prison company for denying cancer medication for...
A private prison company allegedly put an elderly woman in solitary confinement and prevented her from taking her medication, according to a lawsuit filed last month. Carol Lester, a 73-year-old...
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Hong Kong confirms first human case of H7N9 bird flu
Hong Kong on Tuesday confirmed its first human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, according to a report, in the latest sign of the virus spreading beyond mainland China. A 36-year-old Indonesian...
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BlackBerry defiant: New CEO says, ‘We are very much alive, thank you’
BlackBerry’s new chief executive cast off persistent talk of the smartphone maker’s demise, vowing on Monday that the company would pick itself back up and was “here to stay.” “Reports of our death are...
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Saudi Arabia hints OPEC won’t change oil output limit
Saudi Arabia is satisfied with current crude prices as well as global supply and demand levels, its oil minister said Monday, indicating OPEC will freeze its output ceiling. “The market is in the best...
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Researchers: Male koalas use extra vocal cords to woo females
Male koalas may be small, but to woo the ladies they make a low-pitched grunt as deep as an elephant’s call, thanks to an extra set of vocal cords, researchers said Monday. This previously unknown...
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Norway prepares to put halal reindeer meat on the market
Norway’s first-ever halal reindeer meat will soon make it to the dinner tables of Muslims across Norway and places as distant as Dubai. Vilteksperten, a slaughterhouse that specialises in game meat,...
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LAPD moves to curb car stunts at site of ‘Fast and Furious’ star’s death
Police in the US city where “Fast and Furious” star Paul Walker died warned fans Monday against “burning rubber” near the spot where he was killed, as they probed the fatal car crash. They issued the...
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Was Alabama law firm hacked with incredibly racist ad?
An Alabama law firm is disassociating itself from a racist commercial released by a Florida company that claims the law firm provided the script. Vice reported on Monday that Definitive Television has...
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Fed approves capital allocation plans for Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase
The Federal Reserve on Monday said it had passed the revised capital plans of JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, eight months after sending them back due to weaknesses. In its March stress tests of the...
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Apple buys Twitter partner firm for $200 million
Apple has acquired social media analytics firm Topsy for more than $200 million, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The newspaper, citing sources familiar with the deal, said it was unclear how...
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Sweden joins the race for self-driving cars
A hundred self-driving Volvo cars will roll onto public roads in and around the Swedish city of Gothenburg in 2017, the Chinese-owned car maker said Monday. The pilot initiative, called “Drive Me”, has...
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