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Dead pigs show dark side of China food industry
Thousands of dead pigs in a Shanghai river have cast a spotlight on China’s poorly regulated farm production, with the country’s favourite meat joining a long list of food scares. As of Friday, the...
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Stonehenge remains a mystery as scientists ask: was it a health spa or a...
Archaeologists back conflicting theories on Britain’s greatest prehistoric monument It already attracts more than a million visitors a year. Yet these numbers could be dwarfed once Stonehenge, one of...
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Maher: ‘Sh*t-kicker’ conservatives don’t know ‘America has moved on without...
Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher dedicated part of his weekly “New Rules” segment to asking why such a tiny number of angry, out-of-touch conservatives can wield such a...
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More than 240 detained in annual Montreal protest
Authorities in the Canadian city of Montreal said they briefly detained more than 240 people and arrested a dozen for more serious offences during a protest against police brutality late Friday. Two...
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Republicans still don’t have a clue how to woo women
According to CPAC, Democrats reduce women to their vaginas, but the GOP hasn’t gotten much beyond the uterus I feel bad pointing this out, but the reason the (apparently sincere) “What Not to Wear at...
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Brainwashed and cut off from her family, Scientology leader’s niece reveals...
The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader’s niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping. In...
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Greek Jews commemorate Auschwitz deportation anniversary
Greece’s second largest city Thessaloniki on Saturday commemorated the 70th anniversary of the first deportation of its Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Around one thousand people walked in a...
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CPAC 2013: Angry and beaten right wingers offer wacky ideas in search for...
Delegates at fringe Republican convention seek a way back into America’s heart at a key annual meeting of conservatives Gene Wisdom, a 55-year-old conservative from Nashville, Tennessee, was no fan of...
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Young Turks: Religion is dying in America
Friday night on Current TV’s “The Young Turks,” host Cenk Uygur looked at new surveys of U.S. public opinion and posited that this country is following the countries of Europe in an increasing trend...
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Morrissey cancels U.S. tour due to health problems
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey has cancelled the rest of his US tour due to a string of medical problems, his publicist said on Saturday. The 53-year-old British singer was forced to call off 22...
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Iranian military commander tells Obama ‘all options on table’
A top Iranian military commander on Saturday told US President Barack Obama that Tehran also had all of its “options on the table,” echoing a warning to the Islamic republic by the American leader. “Mr...
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Rove mocks Palin: I’m may be a ‘balding fat guy,’ but ‘I wouldn’t leave...
Conservative strategist Karl Rove on Sunday lashed out at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) after she used her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to blast his super PAC for...
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Rep. Tom Cotton: Iraq ‘was a just and noble war’
A Republican congressman who served in Iraq and Afghanistan on Sunday looked back at the Iraq war and declared that it was a “just and noble war.” During an interview on CNN, host Candy Crowley asked...
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Sen. Rand Paul introduces ‘fetal personhood’ bill to outlaw abortion
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Friday introduced so-called “fetal personhood” legislation that would completely outlaw abortion in the United States. The Life at Conception Act would declare that human life...
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Boehner: ‘I can’t imagine’ supporting a gay son’s marriage
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman recently reversed on his opposition to same sex marriage after his son came out as gay, but House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) says that he would never support equal...
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SXSW Recap: SXSW Goes Nuclear
At one party we were at, they weren’t selling a lot of CDs or vinyl, choosing instead to go with tapes. Make of that what you will. South by Southwest seemed especially intense and jam-packed with...
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Colorado sheriff downplays domestic violence to defend gun ownership
A Colorado sheriff this week attacked legislation to ban domestic abusers from having guns by suggesting the crime could be committed by merely breaking a framed photograph. At a town hall meeting on...
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Rep. Mike Rogers: North Korean missile can reach U.S.
Nuclear-armed North Korea has a ballistic missile that could hit the United States, the leading lawmaker on the US House of Representatives intelligence committee warned Sunday. Congressman Mike Rogers...
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CNN grieves that guilty verdict ruined ‘promising’ lives of Steubenville rapists
CNN broke the news on Sunday of a guilty verdict in a rape case in Steubenville, Ohio by lamenting that the “promising” lives of the rapists had been ruined, but spent very little time focusing on how...
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Israel to pressure Obama on air strikes against Syria
Israel will use President Obama’s visit on Wednesday to try to persuade the US to carry out air strikes on Syrian missiles if there is evidence that they are being to handed over to Hezbollah in...
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