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Mozilla ramps up efforts to build an ‘open mobile operating system’ for...
Mozilla on Thursday teamed with global partners in a push for open mobile standards as it ramps up its efforts to develop smartphones challenging Google and Apple operating systems. The...
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Saudi top cleric calls suicide bombers ‘criminals’
Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh branded suicide bombers as “criminals” who will go to “hell,” Al-Hayat daily reported Thursday. Suicide bombings are “great crimes”...
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Atheist struggles to explain the pagan origins of Christmas to Fox News
In the video embedded below, American Atheists, Inc. president David Silverman and Marius Forté — co-author of the book The Answer: Proof of God in Heaven — went head-to-head about the Christian faith...
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Iranian city picks Islamic republic’s first female minority ethnic mayor
A woman belonging to Iran’s Baluch ethnic group has been chosen as the mayor of a provincial city, in a rare example of a minority politician being promoted in the Islamic republic. Samieh Baluchzehi,...
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Another Reminder: Feminism Is Not A Birthday Party Thrown For You By Your Mother
Let’s stop fussing and everyone get naked. Callie Beusman of Jezebel has this piece about the supposed overuse of the phrase “slut-shaming” up and boy hoo did it rub me the wrong way. Not that she’s...
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Elizabeth Warren destroys Bloomberg hosts on Social Security ‘entitlements...
Sen. Elisabeth Warren (D-MA) took two Bloomberg TV hosts to school on Wednesday after they suggested that Social Security was the root of an “entitlements crisis” that was driving the nation’s budget...
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Noam Chomsky: U.S. used to have people killed for practicing what Pope...
The United States waged a decades-long war against Catholics who practiced the teachings that got Pope Francis named as Time magazine’s person of the year, said political philosopher Noam Chomsky. He...
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Mich-ogyny
The overwhelmingly male Michigan legislature yesterday passed a bill that would ban insurers from offering basic health plans that would include coverage for abortion, telling women that, if they want...
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Scientologist pleads guilty in sovereign citizen plot to kidnap and kill a...
A former high-ranking Scientologist pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with a plot to kill Las Vegas police officers to advance her sovereign citizen views. Devon Newman, a former paralegal and...
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Southern Poverty Law Center urges Army to re-ban anti-LGBT hate groups
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) urged the U.S. Army Thursday to rethink its decision to allow soldiers to belong to hate groups like the American Family Association (AFA). According to a post by...
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Christian talker: Rape and incest exceptions are like allowing unfettered...
Banning abortion except in cases of rape and incest is like banning abortion except if you’re Muslim or Jewish, according to Steve Deace, a nationally-syndicated conservative Christian radio host. “And...
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Police: Minnesota pastor told girls he could ‘take the demons out,’ raped...
A 61-year-old Minnesota pastor was charged this week with raping two girls for nearly a decade. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that a complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court on Wednesday...
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Federal prosecutors: Dealer passed off fake ‘laboratory’ wine to drive up...
Renowned wine collector Rudy Kurniawan lied and prevaricated about the origin of fake vintages he tried to auction, a French expert told his New York fraud trial Thursday. The 37-year-old Kurniawan,...
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House prepares to vote on bipartisan budget bill
The just agreed 2014-2015 US budget deal faces a crucial test Thursday when the House of Representatives votes on the bill, with Speaker John Boehner urging skeptical conservatives to back it. The...
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Refugees across Middle East hit hardest by freak winter storm
A bruising winter storm brought severe weather to the Middle East Thursday, forcing the closure of roads and schools and blanketing already miserable Syrian refugee camps with snow. The nearly...
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Virginia GOP senatorial candidate: Desegregation ‘was the beginning of the...
A Republican candidate for the Virginia state Senate was back-pedaling on Thursday following remarks that suggested he thought the integration of the state’s schools hurt the quality of education, the...
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‘A traitor for all ages’: North Korea executes Kim Jong-Un’s uncle
North Korea has executed the uncle of its leader Kim Jong-Un after a shock purge, state news agency KCNA announced early Friday, branding the once-powerful Jang Song-Thaek a “traitor for all ages”....
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Hundreds attend vigil for Sandy Hook shooting victims at National Cathedral
Hundreds solemnly gathered in Washington’s National Cathedral on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the Newtown school massacre and demand tougher laws to combat gun violence in the United...
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Anti-surveillance petition gathers enough signatures for White House response
Anti-surveillance petition out-does the Death Star. White House must now respond (via Pando Daily) By Hamish McKenzie On December 12, 2013A couple of days ago, it looked like Mark Stanley’s “We The...
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Welcome to HEL: U.S Army developing drone-killing laser weapon
The US Army has for the first time successfully tested a vehicle-mounted laser that managed to shoot down incoming mortar rounds and drone aircraft, officials said Thursday. Installed in a dome-shaped...
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