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Researchers: Antarctic ice sheet thinning continues to increase
The West Antarctic ice sheet appears to be shedding far more ice than a few years ago, according to climate research unveiled Wednesday. Previous research, conducted between 2005 and 2010, estimated...
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U.S. air strike in Yemen kills 15 wedding guests mistaken for al-Qaida officials
Security officials report wedding convoy in al-Bayda provice hit by strike from what tribal and local sources say was US drone Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air...
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Nissan tests using electric cars’ batteries to power tech center
Nissan Leafs Can Power Both Offices & Homes (via Clean Technica) Originally published on EV Obsession. You may have heard of the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) concept in which electric vehicles can supply...
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Riding a bike could save you $10,000 a year
Save $10,000 By Riding A Bike Instead Of Driving (via Clean Technica) The average American family spends about $10,000 a year for transportation, according to Author Elly Blue’s new book Bikenomics. By...
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‘They just wanted to ruin my head’: Records show Army lobotomized 2,000 WW2 vets
Newly uncovered documents show the U.S. Army embraced frontal lobotomy as a way to treat at least 2,000 troops in the aftermath of World War II, the Wall Street Journal reported. “They just wanted to...
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House approves two-year bipartisan budget agreement
House lawmakers on Thursday resoundingly approved a two-year budget deal that repeals billions of dollars in painful automatic cuts and crucially avoids the prospect of a US government shutdown next...
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American missing for six years in Iran was really a CIA agent
An American who went missing in Iran six years ago worked for the CIA and was not in the country on a business trip as US officials had claimed, US media reported Thursday. In a case that had long been...
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Hospital patient says clock told him, ‘Time to die’
Doctors at a British hospital were startled when an upset patient told them that the clock in his ward had announced his time was up, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported on Thursday. “The clock...
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U.N. report concludes that chemical weapons were used in Syrian conflict
Chemical weapons have been used at least five times during the Syrian conflict and in some cases children have been slaughtered, according to a UN report released Thursday. The report cites “credible...
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Anderson Cooper hammers psychologist who diagnosed lethal drunk driver with...
CNN host Anderson Cooper grilled the psychologist who testified in court that the 16-year-old Texas drunk driver who killed four people suffered from “affluenza” and could not be held responsible for...
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Rachel Maddow: Mich. senator who fought ‘rape insurance’ with story of her...
The Michigan state senator who spoke up against a new “rape insurance” law — in part by revealing she is a rape survivor — promised MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Thursday that the Republican-backed law...
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Jon Stewart blasts Megyn Kelly’s obsession with ‘keeping’ Jesus and Santa...
Megyn Kelly’s insistence that Santa Claus and Jesus Christ are white men unnerved Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who picked apart Kelly and Fox News colleague Gretchen Carlson for their recent efforts...
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Study: Alcohol would have kept James Bond from bedding women or stirring his...
Agent 007 boozed so much that in all reality he would have had the tremulous hands of a chronic alcoholic, according to an offbeat study published by the British Medical Journal. If statistics are any...
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Iran halts nuclear talks after U.S. blacklist move
Iranian negotiators halted nuclear talks with major powers to return to Tehran for consultations after Washington blacklisted a dozen companies and individuals for evading U.S. sanctions, state media...
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South Africa formally apologizes for fake sign language interpreter
The South African government formally apologized Friday for any offense caused by the sign language interpreter it hired for Nelson Mandela’s memorial, later exposed as a fake. “We sincerely apologize...
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Chinese man sentenced to death for school knife attack that wounded 22 children
A knife-wielding attacker who stabbed 22 students at a primary school in China was sentenced to death on Friday, a court said. The Xinyang City Intermediate People’s Court said Min Yongjun, 37, was...
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Jerusalem paralyzed by ‘historic’ snowstorm that left behind drifts up to 15...
The hilltop city of Jerusalem was paralyzed on Friday by a snowstorm of “historic” proportions, with its mayor calling out the army to help stranded motorists. “We are battling a storm of rare...
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Tiger Woods’ half-brother accused of making bomb threat against his employer
The half-brother of golfer Tiger Woods has been accused of calling in a bomb threat to his workplace. Earl Woods Jr. was arrested Thursday after police said he called the Arizona Department of Economic...
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Italian police crack down on fugitive Mafia godfather
Italian police on Friday said they had arrested 30 people linked to Matteo Messina Denaro, the head of Cosa Nostra, including his sister and several cousins. The raids were in the region around Trapani...
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Apple blocks anti-censorship ‘FreeWeibo’ app in China
US technology giant Apple has removed an anti-censorship application from its Chinese app store on orders from Beijing, the software’s developers said Friday. The FreeWeibo app is intended to allows...
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