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‘Dump DeMarco’ housing activists ejected from House hearing
Housing activists staged a demonstration during a meeting of the House Committee on Housing Finance on Tuesday, disrupting testimony by Ed DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance...
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Hong Kong tops world cities for light pollution
Hong Kong is one of the world’s worst cities for light pollution with night skies around 1,000 times brighter than globally accepted levels, researchers said Wednesday ahead of this year’s Earth Hour...
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Princess Leia hologram could become reality
Scientists have created a 3D display that could mimic the Princess Leia hologram in Star Wars – even on mobile phones Scientists have created a glasses-free, 3D display that could mimic the famous...
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KKK to protest Memphis stripping white supremacist’s name from public park
Memphis city council voted to re-label park named for Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, Confederate general and former Klansman Members of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan planning a protest in Memphis,...
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China will become the world’s largest online retail market by 2020
China’s online sales are forecast to exceed $420 billion annually by 2020, which will likely make the country the world’s largest online retail market, a study showed Thursday. Global management...
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Pregnant Kate gets ‘baby on board’ sign for London subway
Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine was given a badge to help expectant mothers get a seat on London’s Underground when she accompanied Queen Elizabeth II on a visit Wednesday to mark the train...
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Obama picks Indiana Hoosiers to win March Madness
US President Barack Obama has selected the Indiana University Hoosiers as his choice to win the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball tournament this year. The annual...
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NASA’s Voyager leaves solar system
More than 35 years after it launched on a mission to explore the cosmos, NASA’s unmanned Voyager spacecraft appears to have left the solar system and is in a “new region” of space, said a study...
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Weinstein Company snaps up U.S. Yves Saint Laurent biopic rights
A French-language biopic of fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent will be distributed in the US by the Weinstein Company, it said on Wednesday. Starring French actor Pierre Niney, the film will tell the...
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Pastor Hagee: Sodom and Gomorrah was ‘God’s pilot study’ for judging...
Conservative Pastor John Hagee on Tuesday explained that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which the Bible says that God destroyed by fire, was a “pilot study” in how to deal with “homosexual society.”...
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CDC: One in 50 school kids has some form of autism
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that a recent survey of parents shows that 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren has some form of autism. According to the Associated Press, the...
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U.S. tuberculosis cases hit record low
Cases of tuberculosis reached an all-time low in the United States last year, but the disease continued to affect minorities at much higher rates than whites, health authorities said Thursday. There...
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European Union delays carbon tax for one year
The EU will put its controversial carbon tax on intercontinental airline flights on hold for a year to give time for international talks to reach a compromise on the issue, a European source said...
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Britain comes in second on TV exports thanks to ‘Downton Abbey’
Britain in 2012 held on to its position as the world’s second biggest exporter of television programmes after the US on the back of hit dramas such as Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife, a report said...
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Thailand to distribute 1.7 million tablets to schools
Thailand plans to distribute about 1.7 million tablet computers to students and teachers this year in the world’s largest handout of the devices for education, officials said Thursday. Nine firms from...
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Pat Robertson warns of ‘scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible’
Just two days after Pat Robertson encouraged bankrupt families to give him “just $20 a month,” the televangelist is now alerting viewers to beware of “scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible.”...
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U.S. House votes to avert government shutdown
Congress approved a funding stopgap Thursday to keep the US government operating through September, while the House backed a Republican blueprint that lays out budget austerity for the next decade. The...
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Georgia student assaulted by 37-year-old mime
A college student in Georgia was randomly attacked Wednesday by a 37-year-old African-American woman dressed as a mime, according to a police report provided to Raw Story and first spotted by The...
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Judge: Louisiana law banning felons from owning guns is unconstitutional
A judge ruled Thursday that a Louisiana law prohibiting felons from carrying firearms was in violation of a recently ratified constitutional amendment, according to The Times-Pacayune. “The courts...
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Chuck Schumer: Senate close to finalizing ‘pathway to citizenship’ for...
Eight US senators crafting an overhaul of immigration policy are on the verge of finalizing a deal that could bring 11 million undocumented migrants out of the shadows, one of the lawmakers said...
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