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Andrew Sullivan: U.S. stopped being a free country under Bush
Andrew Sullivan of The Dish claimed Monday night the United States stopped being a free country under the Bush administration, citing the alleged military detention and torture of U.S. citizen Jose...
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Scientists think key to a longer life might be in the brain
Scientists said Wednesday they had found a brain region that controls physical ageing, and could target it to manipulate the lifespan of lab mice. The findings may be a step towards finding the holy...
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Lovesick tiger who escaped zoo to look for mate trapped and returned to...
A lonely male tiger that left the jungle and entered a zoo in eastern India in quest of a mate has been trapped, an official of the state-run park said on Wednesday. “It seems to have strayed into the...
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Man angry over Boston bombings breaks jaw of ‘f*cking Muslim’ Iraq war veteran
A 39-year-old Muslim cab driver who served in the Iraq war says that an executive from an aviation company accused him of being a jihadist and broke his jaw in what activists are calling a hate crime....
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Mouthless ‘zombie worms’ use acid to drill into whale bones
A species of faceless, mouthless so-called zombie worm makes its home in the bones of whale skeletons on the ocean floor. According to Discovery.com, these worms use acid to bore into the bones, where...
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Larry Flynt promises to ‘stand erect’ in support of ‘sex pioneer’ Mark Sanford
Republican congressional candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R), who abandoned his post in 2009 to visit Argentina with his mistress, received an unexpected endorsement from porn...
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Belief in biblical end-times stifling climate change action in U.S.: study
The United States has failed to take action to mitigate climate change thanks in part to the large number of religious Americans who believe the world has a set expiration date. Research by David C....
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White House: Obama examining ways to shut down Guantanamo
President Barack Obama is considering appointing a new senior State Department official to work out how to transfer detainees to permit the closure of the war-on-terror prison at Guantanamo Bay. The...
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UN rapporteur: India’s laws not tough enough on violence against women
India’s new sex crime laws do not go far enough to protect women or tackle gender inequality, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women said on Wednesday. The legislation was passed following...
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Tunisian army clashes with armed jihadists
Tunisian troops clashed on Wednesday with around 50 armed jihadists in the remote Mount Chaambi border region, a security source said, the first such operation since the revolution in January 2011....
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Tennessee county official not sorry for image promoting violence against Muslims
A county commissioner has refused to apologize for posting an image on his Facebook page that declared Muslims were best greeted from behind a shotgun barrel. The image showed a man in a cowboy hat...
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U.S. activists target Air India for transporting animals used in experiments
Animal rights activists protested outside the Indian embassy in Washington on Thursday, accusing Air India of transporting live animals for use in scientific experiments. People for the Ethical...
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Protesters gather as NRA prepares for meeting in Texas
The National Rifle Association (NRA) opens its annual meeting in gun-friendly Texas on Friday with its leadership determined to fight off any fresh attempt to tighten the nation’s gun laws. More than...
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Colorado legislator wants to treat ‘High Times’ magazine like porn
A Colorado Senate committee is considering putting marijuana-themed publications like High Times behind the counter. “It’s analogous to the pornography example,” Rep. Bob Gardner (R-Colorado Springs),...
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Why do only ‘stupid’ aliens build flying saucers that spin? Neil deGrasse...
Though classic sci-fi movies often depict extraterrestrial beings visiting Earth in spinning disks, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explained Thursday that only stupid aliens who didn’t understand...
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Huge blaze shuts down California coastal highway
A wildfire forced the closure of a section of California’s scenic coastal highway Thursday, as authorities ordered residents to evacuate from advancing flames and canceled classes. The blaze fanned by...
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House to vote on restrictive debt ceiling bill
The Republican-led House of Representatives plans to vote next week on legislation that would allow the US government to borrow above the debt ceiling, in a move meant to stave off default. But the...
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Rhode Island becomes tenth state to embrace marriage equality
Rhode Island became the tenth state to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday, after Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I) signed the Marriage Equality Act into law. “This is truly a proud day for Rhode Island. Gov....
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Reports of forced feeding puts pressure on Obama to close Guantanamo
Controversy over the Guantánamo Bay detention camp has intensified as United Nations experts condemned the force-feeding of hunger-striking inmates by the US, and a former White House lawyer claimed...
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Rhode Island bishop warns against attending same-sex wedding ceremonies
Bishop of Providence Thomas Tobin, the Roman Catholic leader of Rhode Island, on Thursday warned Catholics that God looked unfavorably upon those who attended same-sex weddings. In a letter published...
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