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Jon Stewart annihilates GOP hysteria over Obama’s executive orders
On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart tore into conservatives who insisted President Barack Obama was a tyrant because of his proposals to reduce gun violence. Obama on Wednesday...
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Former Bachmann aide files complaint with FEC alleging illegal payments
A former aide for one of the GOP’s 2012 presidential hopefuls, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), has filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission, reported the Star Tribune. Peter Waldron...
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Limbaugh defends ‘human shield’ comment: ‘The Democrats use kids as human...
Radio host Rush Limbaugh defended on Friday previous comments that he made that claimed President Obama used children as “human shields” during his gun control announcement. “This is exactly what I...
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European space agency considers smashing spacecraft into asteroid
European space officials are considering sending a spacecraft to smash into a small asteroid — one of the pair of orbiting rocks, named Didymos, that will sail closely past the Earth in 2022 — to see...
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Danny Glover: Second Amendment comes from fear of ‘slave revolts’
Actor Danny Glover said that the Second Amendment was written to strengthen the institution of slavery and help take Native American land, in a discussion with Texas A&M students on Jan. 17,...
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Maher: Second Amendment is ‘anachronistic’ and being a ‘proud gun owner’ is...
Bill Maher started off his first show on Friday since his hiatus with a discussion on gun control, which Maher believes is politically doomed. Maher warned the crowd at the beginning of the segment,...
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Maher: ‘It’s not your Second Amendment rights that are under attack — it’s...
During the last segment of Bill Maher’s show on Friday, he criticized both gun owners and liberals who appeared not to care that the majority of our civil liberties have been compromised as they duke...
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Amazon rainforest showing signs of degradation due to climate change, NASA warns
Rainforest area twice the size of California experiencing drought rate that is unprecedented in a century, study shows The US space agency Nasa warned this week that the Amazon rainforest may be...
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Pentagon rejects prosecutor’s request to drop 9/11 charge
The official tasked with running the Guantanamo military tribunals has rejected a prosecution recommendation to drop one of the counts faced by several detainees charged in the September 11, 2001...
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Corruption evil as drugs and prostitution: Interpol
Global football corruption helps drive the criminal underworld’s domination of prostitution, drug-trafficking and gun-running, an international symposium into match-fixing heard on Friday. Around 200...
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Captivated by ‘fake girlfriend’ hoax, Americans learn about ‘catfishing’
A spectacular hoax involving a popular US sportsman’s fake dead girlfriend has put a spotlight on a practice known as “catfishing” and raised fresh concerns about news media fact-checking. Sports fans...
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Kim Dotcom claims Megaupload successor got ‘massive’ response
New Zealand-based Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom claimed a “massive” response to his new file-sharing service launched Sunday, suggesting it could be the fastest growing start-up in history. The mega.co.nz...
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IL Rep. seeks special prosecutor to review 2010 shoplifting death
An Illinois lawmaker is calling for a special prosecutor to review the 2010 death of a homeless man following the release of footage of his fatal encounter with a Chicago store owner. WLS-TV reported...
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Facebook video shows adults attacking 12-year-old girl
The mother of a 12-year-old California girl is demanding justice after video surfaced of her daughter being beaten up not just by a fellow student, but two adults. “I’m beyond mad,” the girl’s mother...
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Obama ‘guidebook’ for targeted killings to include exemption for CIA drone...
The administration of President Barack Obama is completing a counterterrorism manual that will establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations, The Washington Post reported. But citing unnamed US...
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Japan’s grandmother poet Toyo Shibata dies at 101
Japanese poet Toyo Shibata, who started writing at the age of 92 and whose first anthology sold almost 1.6 million copies, died Sunday aged 101, her son said. Shibata died at a nursing home near her...
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India’s Sonia Gandhi slams ‘shameful’ attitudes towards women
Sonia Gandhi, president of India’s ruling Congress party, on Sunday condemned “shameful” social attitudes that led to crimes like the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi. “We cannot tolerate...
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‘Political coward’ Binyamin Netanyahu sees rift with Barack Obama widen
Israeli prime minister’s aides accused American president of interfering in Israel’s elections Already fractious relations between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama have been further strained in the...
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On the trail of dinosaur fossil swindlers
Dinosaur fossils are big business, with complete skeletons fetching millions. And that much cash attracts swindlers, science writer Brian Switek reports Fossils are priceless. I mean that in both...
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Mourners exchange fond memories and angry calls for justice at Aaron Swartz...
It was fitting that a memorial service held Saturday for computer freedom activist Aaron Swartz, who killed himself on January 11 as he faced hacking charges, was open to all. In a spacious meeting...
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