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46-year-old daughter of singer-actress Jane Birkin dies after fall from...
British photographer Kate Barry, daughter of singer-actress Jane Birkin, died Wednesday after falling from the fourth floor of her Paris apartment building, informed sources said, confirming a media...
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’12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ top Golden Globe nominations
Historical drama “12 Years a Slave” and crime film “American Hustle” won the most nominations for the Golden Globes announced Thursday with seven nods each. Black and white road movie “Nebraska” came...
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Anger surges over Nelson Mandela death ‘picture’ posted on the Internet
UPDATE: AFP has determined that the purported death photo is a fake. It’s actually a photo of Mandela from 1991. The South African government said Thursday it would not release photographs of Nelson...
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German police build ‘Nazi Shazam’ music detector to track right-wing, banned...
German police are touting a new high-tech tool to identify illegal neo-Nazi songs in seconds, dubbed “Nazi Shazam” after popular music identification software. Authorities in the eastern state of...
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It’s not a movie — the universe really is a hologram, according to new science
A team of physicists has found evidence to support an idea long theorized by philosophers and stoners alike that the universe might actually be one big holographic projection. Theoretical physicist...
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North Korea may be set for ‘Cultural Revolution’: Japan
The recent purge of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s once-powerful uncle could herald a period of radical upheaval comparable to China’s Cultural Revolution, Japanese defence minister Itsunori Onodera...
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Fox News host Megyn Kelly tells kids: Jesus and Santa are both white guys
Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday assured children viewing her program that both Jesus Christ and Santa Claus were white men even though some liberals were trying to make them black. In a column...
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Fake deaf translator at Nelson Mandela’s funeral turns out to be schizophrenic
The sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial ceremony denied he was a fraud Thursday, claiming he gesticulated nonsense during the service because he was suffering a schizophrenic episode...
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Rachel Maddow: GOP in shambles as internal war goes public
No matter how bad it seems for Democrats right now, said Rachel Maddow on her show Wednesday night, it’s worse for Republicans. In spite of the fact that the Obamacare roll-out was messy, the...
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Arizona detective quits after learning she’s been living in the U.S....
An Arizona state police detective resigned after discovering she’s been living in the U.S. illegally for decades. Family members had apparently told 42-year-old Carmen Figueroa that she was born in the...
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California man fatally shoots wife and sister in suspected ‘double mercy...
A California man calmly surrendered on Wednesday after police said that he shot and killed both his wife and sister in what were suspected to be mercy killings. According to Los Angeles Police...
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Volunteer fire chief resigns over shockingly offensive Facebook posts, but...
A volunteer fire chief in southwestern Indiana resigned Tuesday after posting outrageously racist rants on social media, but he still doesn’t understand why people were upset. Chief Sean Sargent used...
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Sen. Leahy: Mass incarceration and indefinite detention ‘tragic failures,’...
In a wide-ranging speech at the Human Rights First Summit last week, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) spoke out against indefinite detention, mass incarceration, the landmine treaty, torture, and drones. “As...
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Pat Robertson: Letting lesbians in your house might turn your kids gay
Televangelist Pat Robertson warned a viewer on Thursday that she should be careful when allowing lesbian friends into her home because “you don’t want your children to grow up as lesbians.” A viewer...
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Woman doubles down on middle-finger Christmas light display aimed at neighbors
After winning a court battle protecting her right to give her neighbors the finger with a rooftop Christmas light display, a Louisiana woman intends to give them a double-barrel salute this year. Sarah...
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Space station cooling breakdown may delay Orbital launch
NASA rushed Thursday to fix a breakdown in the cooling system at the International Space Station that may delay the launch next week of Orbital Sciences’ first cargo mission. Engineers are still trying...
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Instagram unveils new service for private video and photo messaging
Instagram on Thursday unveiled a new service, allowing its 150 million members to send private photo and video messages to friends and loved ones. The Instagram Direct launch comes ahead of the holiday...
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New Iran sanctions that threatened negotiations stall on Senate floor
Two top US senators agreed with the White House Thursday that Washington should not introduce new sanctions against Iran, warning they could “rupture” international unity against Tehran’s nuclear...
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Israel negotiator warns right-wingers seeking to derail peace
Israel’s chief peace negotiator on Thursday accused a key coalition partner of deliberately seeking to sabotage talks with the Palestinians by ramping up settlement construction. Speaking just hours...
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Pope Francis calls for a ‘rethinking of our models of economic development’
Pope Francis on Thursday urged governments around the world to show more solidarity and strive for equality following a period of economic crisis, a day after being declared “Person of the Year” by...
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