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Commissioning of final turbine completes world’s largest offshore wind farm
The 175th and final wind turbine was installed at the London Array offshore wind farm in December of 2012, but was finally commissioned this week, which not only finalises the end of major construction...
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Norwegian teens return $81,500 found in bag on a train left by elderly passenger
Two Norwegian teens returned 467,200 kroner (some 62,000 euros, $81,500) they found left on a train by an elderly passenger, Norwegian media reported Thursday. The pair found the treasure Wednesday in...
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Off-duty firefighter saves man who sawed his arms to the bone in Home Depot
An off-duty firefighter saved the life of a man who cut both his arms to the bone with power saws at a California Home Depot Store. According to Southern California’s NBC Channel 4, Pasadena Fire...
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ATF: Shop that sold Newtown weapons violated regulations hundreds of times
A gun store in East Windsor, Connecticut that sold two of the firearms found after the Newtown massacre recently saw its license revoked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)...
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Nebraska dealer: No license needed to sell ‘personal collection’ of 678 guns,...
A Nebraska man says that he is not guilty of illegally selling firearms to people who told him they were felons because the items were out of his personal collection of 678 guns and 13 grenades....
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Fukushima nuclear plant springs another radioactive leak
Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has sprung yet another leak of radioactive water, its operator said on Thursday, the latest in an increasingly long line of mishaps to rattle public confidence....
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg launches lobbying group to push immigration and...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new political action group he is spearheading Thursday to press for reforms in areas including immigration and education. “To lead the world in this new...
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New unemployment applications fall after three weeks of increases
New claims for US unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, partly erasing the increases of the prior three weeks, Labor Department data released Thursday showed. Initial jobless claims,...
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Tea Party Congressman decries GOP outreach to ‘so-called Hispanic voters’
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) said in a radio interview on Tuesday that he finds it “discouraging” that the Republican Party is attempting to reach out to “so-called Hispanic voters.” According to Think...
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Unsurprising News: Major Organic Food Company Run By Christian Right Nutters
Beware of lurking right wing agendas. Irin Carmon at Salon published an important expose this morning of Organic Eden Foods. The company, which shamelessly drapes its marketing in feel-good liberal...
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Coulter: The killing of politicians’ children should ‘start with Meghan McCain’
In a column published on Thursday, conservative pundit Ann Coulter joked that the killing of politicians’ children should “start with Meghan McCain.” Earlier this week, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MA) told...
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Colbert warns: Americans are going to start gay-marrying their weed
Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert lamented the decline in our national moral character, as evinced by the fact that a majority of Americans now support same sex marriage and...
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8-year-old follows Tenn. lawmaker around Capitol until he drops welfare bill
A Tennessee lawmaker has relented and agreed to drop his bill linking academic performance to the family’s welfare benefits after an 8-year-old girl shamed him by following him around the state...
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California under fire for race-based lockdowns that can last for years
In several men’s prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispanic, yellow for everyone else. Though it’s not an...
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Package containing explosives sent to Sheriff Joe Arpaio
A suspicious package sent to the controversial anti-immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Flagstaff, Arizona was found to contain explosive materials, police told KPNX and the Arizona Republic on Thursday...
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Indiana man arrested for taking axe to Planned Parenthood facility
A man who believes Planned Parenthood “kills babies” took an axe to a facility early Thursday morning in Bloomington, Indiana, according to the Herald Times. Police arrested 27-year-old Benjamin D....
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Bryan Fischer: ‘Homofascists’ will treat Christians like Jews in the Holocaust
The director of issues analysis of the fundamentalist American Family Association (AFA) on Thursday warned that “homofascists” were going to make anti-LGBT Christians wear badges like Jews had to wear...
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Republican congressman claims gun background checks will cause Rwanda-style...
South Carolina’s Rep. Jeff Duncan (R) warned Thursday that attempts by the U.S. government to impose comprehensive background checks on gun buyers will lead to a wholesale slaughter of American...
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Library of Congress employee lured men to his ex’s home with Craigslist sex ads
A Library of Congress film preservationist was indicted in Charlottesville on Wednesday posting fake Craigslist ads promising sex or pornography directing men to the home of his ex-girlfriend, whom he...
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Chinese industrialists back to razing forests after government arrests,...
Rumbling earthmovers carve out a seaside golf course among fallen palm trees on a Chinese island, after authorities silenced the man who spoke out against destroying the tropical forest. Vast swathes...
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