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Forget feathers and beads: At Basel’s carnival Fasnacht, it’s all about politics
Forget feathers and beads: At Basel's carnival Fasnacht, it's all about politics New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Venice: All play host to the annual glittering, colorful, and wild extravaganza known as...
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Photos show North Korea has resumed activity at nuclear site
North Korea has resumed activity at a nuclear site following its internationally condemned bomb test, a US think tank said Wednesday, amid fears that the regime will carry out more explosions....
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Astronomers spot smallest planet ever: Kepler-37b
Astronomers on Wednesday said they had found the smallest planet ever spotted beyond our Solar System, a scorched and uninhabitable mini-world tinier than Mercury. The planet is the innermost of three...
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Fox News contributor links Al Jazeera to Muslim ‘sleeper cells’ in Detroit
A Fox News contributor on Wednesday confusingly associated the Qatar-based media network Al Jazeera with terrorist “sleeper cells” in Detroit. Fox News host Megyn Kelly noted during the segment that Al...
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Red wine compound resveratrol could protect against hearing loss: study
A new study helps explain how a compound found in red wine protects against hearing loss. The research was published this week in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. “Our latest study focuses on...
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Fox News host Bob Beckel apologizes: Rape on college campuses ‘serious’ and...
Fox News host Bob Beckel apologized on Wednesday for an offensive comment he made about rape. Beckel, who is often the sole liberal voice on the Fox News show The Five, said the issue of rape on...
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Florida governor outrages conservatives with call to expand Medicaid
Florida governor Rick Scott, one of the sharpest critics of President Obama’s healthcare law, announced late Wednesday that he wanted the state to participate in an optional portion of the law after...
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Sony touts PlayStation 4 as the ‘future of gaming’
Sony unveiled a new-generation PlayStation 4 system on Wednesday and laid out its vision for the “future of gaming” in a world rich with mobile gadgets and play streamed from the Internet cloud. At a...
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NASA’s Mars rover finds gray rock beneath the Red Planet’s surface
So much for Mars being “The Red Planet.” NASA said Wednesday that its Curiosity rover has scooped up a sample from the interior of a Martian rock and found that the powdery soil just beneath the...
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Three more states consider rebelling against Citizens United ruling
Resolutions condemning the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling have been introduced to the state legislatures of North Carolina, West Virginia, and New Hampshire. The three pieces of...
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Georgia attorney general: Mentally disabled inmate Warren Hill not entitled...
The state of Georgia has applied to the US supreme court to overturn a stay of execution for Warren Hill, the intellectually disabled prisoner who came within half an hour of being put to death on...
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Obama: Protecting the rich binds together the Republican Party
President Barack Obama on Thursday said the only thing keeping Republicans together was a desire to shield the rich from higher taxes, in a new jab over an imminent budget confrontation. Obama is...
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Americans frequent victims of ‘seafood fraud’: report
Fish sold in the United States is often deliberately mislabeled, making American consumers the unwitting victims of “widespread seafood fraud,” according to a report out Thursday. Fully one-third of...
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Biden on gun control: The American people are with us
Just miles from the site of the Newtown school massacre, Vice President Joe Biden warned Thursday that US politicians would pay a price if they refuse to back measures to stem gun violence. Biden said...
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Sen. Rand Paul ‘not familiar with the details’ of anti-abortion bill he...
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Wednesday claimed to be ignorant of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, even though he sponsored the legislation twice. At a press event in...
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Colorado lawmaker tells anti-gay Christians: ‘Get thee to a nunnery’
The National Organization of Marriage on Thursday accused the author of a civil unions bill of being contemptuous of religion after the Colorado lawmaker said Christian don’t have the right to...
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Obama urged to defend ‘jailbreaking’ of smart phones
The White House will soon have to dial in a response to a petition asking that mobile phone users be allowed to switch locked devices to new carriers, a process known as “jailbreaking.” An obscure...
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Jimmy Carter: Obama is president because of my grandson
Former president Jimmy Carter told CNN on Thursday that he believed his grandson was the reason Barack Obama was still President of the United States. “That’s kind of a prejudice,” he said, laughing....
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Scientists warn of melting permafrost if temperatures continue to rise
A global temperature rise of 1.5C would be enough to start the melting of permafrost in Siberia, scientists warned on Thursday. Any widespread thaw in Siberia’s permanently frozen ground could have...
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Activists press for additional $25 billion in fines against BP over Gulf oil...
BP should be on the hook for an additional $25bn to restore environmental damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, even if the company is hit with a record-breaking $17.6bn in fines at a civil...
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