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Watch NAACP leader confront Koch ally about ‘worst policies since Jim Crow’...
North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber on Monday confronted the man who he says is responsible for pushing policies that have been devastating poor and minority communities in the state....
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Former NASA expert says current climate change strategy is dangerous
Longtime NASA expert James Hansen has issued a call for new approaches to stop global warming, saying solutions are needed and that currently accepted targets are too dangerous. His 26-page paper in...
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Critics say new Dallas policy will allow police to make up cover stories for...
The Dallas Police Department will require any officer who’s involved in a police shooting to wait 72 hours before giving a statement about the shooting. Chief David Brown quietly issued the policy...
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Apple buys social media analytics firm Topsy for $200 million
Apple has acquired social media analytics firm Topsy for more than $200 million, The Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper, citing sources familiar with the deal, said on Monday it was unclear...
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Sex abuse survivors win as Catholic church in Minnesota forced to name...
A county judge in Minnesota has given the Catholic Church just two weeks to turn over the names of at least 33 priests who are accused of abusing children. After nearly 30 years of fighting for the...
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Brain imaging study shows ‘stark difference’ in neural wiring of men and women
Women aren’t very good at reading maps, and men are incapable of multi-tasking. At first glance they might seem like a couple of hoary old stereotypes from the battle of the sexes. But are they? A new...
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L.A. Times exposes Cardinal Mahony’s decades-long pattern of shielding...
The Los Angeles Times has published an exhaustive account — based on over 23,000 pages of internal documents from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles — of the former Archbishop of Los Angeles’s complicity...
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Texas cop shoots man after women refuse his ‘wife-swapping’ plan
A police officer in Texas has been accused of shooting another man multiple times after two women reportedly refused to go along with a plan to swap sexual partners for the night. According to the San...
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Illinois park district rejects donation from ‘Friendly Atheist’ to avoid...
An Illinois park district has refused a $3,000 donation by an atheist blogger to avoid controversy. The Morton Grove Park District had lost about $2,600 in funding after a local veterans group pulled...
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Noam Chomsky: My entire career is ‘just a series of accidents’
In a segment on Democracy Now this morning, Amy Goodman introduces a conversation between Michael Gondry and Noam Chomsky that occurred after the premier of the former’s film, “Is the Man Who is Tall...
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Documents show powerful right wing lobby losing support after Trayvon Martin...
An influential US lobbying network of Republican politicians and big businesses is seeking to avert a looming funding crisis by appealing to major donors that have abandoned it over the past two years...
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Massachusetts coach charged with raping preteen girl over two-year period
A former assistant basketball coach in Massachusetts was arrested this week over allegations that he raped a preteen girl over a period of two years. Prosecutors in Fall River say former Durfee High...
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Suit seeks legal personhood for chimp who animal rights activists claim is a...
The Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP) filed a writ of habeas corpus in a New York court today on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee it claims is being held captive in deplorable conditions. According to the...
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Vatican and Oxford University publish trove of ancient bibles online
A treasure trove of ancient bibles and rare Greek and Hebrew texts are being made available to the public through a website set up by the Vatican and Oxford University. A priceless 1455 copy of the...
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Fed up with absenteeism, Danish city sends social workers to wake up students...
Social workers in a wealthy Copenhagen neighbourhood have begun making house calls to wake up students with high rates of absenteeism, sparking accusations that Denmark’s welfare state has become too...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX counts down to satellite launch
Private US company SpaceX was Tuesday poised for a third attempt to launch its first commercial satellite, after repairs were made to the Falcon 9 rocket. The launch window opens at 5:37 pm (2237 GMT)...
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Human ancestor was less-chimp-like than thought
The last common ancestor of Man and Ape was not a knuckle-walking, tree-swinging hominid resembling today’s chimpanzee, said a study Tuesday challenging some long-held theories of human evolution....
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Iran to ‘immediately’ begin exporting oil once sanctions are lifted
Iran will “immediately” export more crude oil once sanctions are lifted in the wake of the international deal to roll back its nuclear programme, the country’s oil minister said Tuesday. “Immediately...
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Is Obama the anti-Christ? It’s irresponsible not to speculate, birther pastor...
A birther minister who gained Internet notoriety for his claim that the Bible foretold Barack Obama as the anti-Christ says he doesn’t deserve the mockery. Carl Gallups advanced the theory, based on...
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Michele Bachmann: President Obama ‘has rewritten the Constitution for himself’
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) asserted on Tuesday that President Barack Obama “has rewritten the Constitution for himself” in an effort to transform the country. In an interview with Fox News, the...
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