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Woman Booted From Flight for Boarding With ‘Emotional Support’ Squirrel
A woman was kicked off a plane in Orlando late Wednesday after she attempted to fly with an “emotional support” squirrel, according to a report from the New York Post. The Cleveland-bound woman reportedly indicated that she planned to fly with the varmint Tuesday night, but did not specify that the animal would be a squirrel. When she was asked to leave the plane, the Post notes, she refused, forcing Frontier Airlines to deplane other passengers before forcibly escorting her out.
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Nigerian dies in 'bullet-proof' charm test
A self-styled traditional healer in Nigeria has died after one of his clients tested his "bullet-proof" charms on him. Chinaka Adoezuwe, 26, was killed after instructing the man to shoot him as he was wearing the charms around his neck. Police in the country's south-eastern Imo state say the client has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
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High school principal resigns after LGBTQ students were forced to read the Bible as punishment
An Oregon principal has resigned after a months-long investigation into how the high school under his leadership discriminated against LGBTQ students, including forcing them to read the Bible as punishment. When Liv Funk and Hailey Smith, two female students at North Bend High School in Coos County, began dating, they started to face discrimination — and even threats to their safety — from students and staff alike. For example, one teacher equated homosexuality with bestiality, and the school’s police officer told the young couple they were going to hell.
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TEDxBrussels organizer drags presenter off stage during anti-censorship talk
Get ready for your head to explode. In the middle of TEDxBrussels talk on March 5 that focused on censorship, a male event organizer walked onto the stage and physically dragged the female presenter off. And the kicker? The theme of the entire TEDx event was Brave New World — as in, yes, the Aldous Huxley book about a dystopian future wherein an all-powerful state controls the lives of its citizens. And it only gets worse from there. According to the TEDxBrussels website, the presenter, artist Deborah De Robertis, was in the middle of a piece addressing past censorship of her artwork.
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Evolution Deniers Are Mad at Wikipedia for “Censoring” Intelligent Design
David Klinghoffer, a senior fellow at the Intelligent Design-promoting Discovery Institute, just announced its winner for the Censor of the Year award, given to the media outlet or publisher that refuses to acknowledge the other side of a story. This year’s winner? Wikipedia. Because apparently the article about Intelligent Design doesn’t treat the concept on par with evolution.
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Florida high school segregates students by grades at lunch
A Florida high school is making news for its policy of segregating its students during lunch by their grade point average.
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You Can Bring Marijuana With You On Airplanes In Canada
Wait, What? No seriously. Weed won't be legalized until next year, but CASTA, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority are saying that starting next week, it will be possible to bring weed with you on an airplane when arriving to Canada, without having to worry about getting arrested.
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More girls named Arya than Mary in 2016
Baby names are becoming increasingly adventurous - often inspired by characters and figures from the world of entertainment. More than 300 girls born in England and Wales last year were named Arya, sharing their name with the well-known Game of Thrones character. That's more than the number of children who received traditional names like Mary (204) and Catherine (163).
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‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un,’ evangelical adviser says
Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers who preached the morning of his inauguration, has released a statement saying the president has the moral authority to “take out” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Woman who tricked friend into sex by pretending to be a man using fake penis jailed for six and a half years
women who used a plastic penis to dupe her girlfriend into believing she was actually a man has been jailed as the judge told her "sometimes truth is stranger than fiction". Gayle Newland cried in the dock as she was sent back to jail yesterday for tricking the woman into believing she was a man by making her wear a blindfold when they met and by using a prosthetic penis during sex. The 27-year-old created a "disturbingly complex" online persona to achieve her own "bizarre sexual satisfaction" and continued the deception over a two year period.
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Florida Man Shoots Out Tires of an AT&T Truck Outside Home
A Hialeah, Florida man took matters into his own hands to remove AT&T workers from his property on Wednesday. Jorge Jove, a 64-year-old retired Miami-Dade firefighter, shot the tires of two AT&T trucks, as seen in video captured of the incident and posted on Twitter. Hialeah Police Sgt. Carl Zogby told WSVN that Jove was “upset that the trucks were parked in front of his house” and that he “asked them to move.”
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Dutch Children Might Sue Sperm-Donor Father Simply for Causing Them to Exist in This Wretched Universe
A court in the Netherlands ruled Friday that a group of Dutch families can conduct DNA tests to determine whether their children were fathered by the deceased director of a fertility clinic who's suspected of substituting his own sperm for that of listed donors. Midway through the BBC's write-up of this strange case is this doozy of a sentence...
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San Diego bank robber reveals his identity by using ATM card during heist
If only all crimes were so easy to solve: Alvin Lee Neal robbed a downtown San Diego bank, but before he did he inserted his ATM debit card at the teller window — revealing his name and other personal information. Neal, 56, was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to three years and 10 months in prison for the robbery, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Neal entered the Wells Fargo branch on First Avenue on May 13 and approached a teller window, according to his plea agreement.
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You Can Now Grow Human-Animal Hybrids, But You Can’t Breed ‘Em
The federal government just proposed new rules that would allow researchers to grow human-animal hybrids for research, so long as they can't think, feel, or breed.
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