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Tortured and murdered: The tragic story of Pope Francis’ Marxist feminist friend
He was in his late teens and still some years away from entering the Jesuit Order. She was in her mid-30s, a revolutionary and a feminist far ahead of her time. They met around 1953 or 1954 in the most...
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Hearing erupts into chaos after GOP rep. compares Kathleen Sebelius to North...
Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) became so frustrated with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday that he made a botched attempt to compare her to North Korea. While debating...
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Connecticut dad arrested for allegedly bullying his autistic son’s bullies
Police in Naugatuck, Connecticut arrested the 40-year-old father of a 12-year-old boy with autism when the father allegedly threatened a pair of boys who he believed had been tormenting his son....
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Idaho Republicans consider ousting colleague who pleaded guilty to rape charges
On Tuesday, an Idaho state senator called on his colleague to resign when it came to light that the fellow state lawmaker entered a guilty plea to rape charges in 1974. The Associated Press reported...
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Your mission: Send a video wake-up call to sleeping comet-chasing satellite
Citizens of Planet Earth are being invited to make a “video shout-out” to wake up a deep-space probe, Rosetta, that has been in hibernation since June 2011. The European Space Agency (ESA) is offering...
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JPMorgan Chase will spend $2 billion a year to meet settlement terms
US banking giant JPMorgan Chase expects to spend $2 billion in annual compliance costs starting in 2014, chief executive Jamie Dimon said Wednesday. The spending is double what the bank previously...
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Public defenders keep quitting on North Dakota white supremacist Craig Cobb
By the time his case goes to trial, white supremacist Craig Cobb may have worked with every full-time public defender in the state of North Dakota. A fourth attorney has been appointed to represent...
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Glenn Beck: The pope is Person of the Year because ‘progressives are fascists’
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Wednesday reacted to Pope Francis being named Time‘s 2013 Person of the Year by naming Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as his “Man of the Year.” “It makes me nervous about...
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‘I no longer fear anything’: Kiev protests continue after failed police raid
A police raid may have reduced their protest barricades to a pile of snow, but it has only made the demonstrators on Kiev’s Independence Square more determined than ever. “I no longer fear anything,”...
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‘Goldilocks’ study shows which planet’s climates are just right for human life
The bad news: Earth’s oceans will evaporate away. The good news: It won’t happen for another billion years or so. Those are the conclusions of a new study into the so-called Goldilocks zone — the...
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U.S. budget deal will mean higher airline prices
The US budget deal reached this week ends billions of dollars in crippling automatic spending cuts, but paying for that would trigger something Americans love to hate: higher air travel fees. House...
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National Review guys do not care for your slick baby-killing lawyerly ways....
Someone (everyone?) at National Review Online had a serious breakdown this morning and published an early entry for the Festivus Airing Of Grievances directed at the ACLU, baby-killing moms and gays,...
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German state vows to block reprints of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
Germany’s Bavaria state has pledged to maintain an effective post-war ban on Adolf Hitler’s manifesto “Mein Kampf”, sparking a dispute over academic freedom. Since World War II, copyright holder...
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Utah cop uses Taser on naked man who bit police dog
A Utah man faces a $25,000 arrest warrant on top of charges of lewdness, disorderly conduct charges and biting a police dog after being spotted causing a disturbance at a gas station. The Associated...
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Mexican lawmakers stage lock-in to block oil reform bill
Leftist lawmakers locked themselves inside Mexico’s chamber of deputies Wednesday to prevent the lower house from debating a controversial oil reform bill that passed the Senate hours earlier. Around...
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FDA issues non-binding rules for removing antibiotics from farms
In response to concerns about the rise in drug-resistant superbugs worldwide, US regulators Wednesday issued voluntary guidelines to help cut back on antibiotics routinely fed to farm animals. The plan...
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Prosecutors drop domestic violence charges against George Zimmerman
Florida State Attorney Phil Archer announced on Wednesday that former murder suspect George Zimmerman will not face domestic violence charges, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The decision came two days...
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‘Happy tears’ as South Africa celebrates Nelson Mandela’s life
Tens of thousands of South Africans danced and sang for Nelson Mandela on Wednesday as formal ceremonies were put aside to celebrate the hero who was known for his own trademark shuffle. International...
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Yahoo apologizes after second day of email service blackout
An outage at Yahoo Mail stretched into its second day on Wednesday, prompting the US Internet pioneer to apologize to unhappy users. Yahoo would not disclose the number of email accounts knocked out of...
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Texas man: My roommate beat me up and left me naked in a ditch
A Texas man told authorities he was left naked in a ditch for hours after being ambushed by his roommate and co-worker following an argument over their neighbor’s dog. “That’s a fight for human life,...
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