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6 years ago+11 11 0Neighbor breaks into home, saves deaf woman from Las Vegas house fire
A deaf woman is safe after her neighbor broke into her home to alert her to a fire that was burning outside late Tuesday night, according to fire officials.Firefighters responded just after 11:15 p.m. to the 4500 block of Mark Avenue, near Decatur an ...
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6 years ago+8 8 0Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? California City Is First in U.S. to Try
This town in California’s Central Valley has long functioned as a display case for wrenching troubles afflicting American life: The housing bust that turned Stockton into an epicenter of a national foreclosure disaster and plunged the city into bankr ...
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6 years ago+9 9 0Baltimore man gets 35 years for joining Somali terror group
Maalik Alim Jones, 33, was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to terror conspiracy charges. Prosecutors say he went to Somalia to join al-Shabab.
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6 years ago+14 14 0Another “missing” component could revolutionize electronics
A new theory predicts the existence of an electronic device that works like an inverse transistor. It could make circuits, smaller, faster, and less power hungry.
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6 years ago+3 3 0German police fine parents at airport for taking children out of school early | DW | 21.05.2018
Police at a German airport have fined parents for going on vacation before the official start of school holidays. School attendance is compulsory in Germany.
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6 years ago+15 15 0Mexico’s murder rate heads for a new record
IN APASEO EL GRANDE, a town in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the bodies are stacking up. In February gangsters killed a local politician. The remains of another victim were found in four bags scattered across town. Police made a similar di ...
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6 years ago+3 4 1Donald Trump’s Dumpster Fire Isn’t Funny Anymore
If the Trump administration was a TV comedy like “Arrested Development,” the writers would be up for every single award. The utter ridiculousness of it all, from the rambling toilet rants, to Rudy Guiliani’s admissions that contradict Trump’s stateme ...
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6 years ago+8 8 0Clark Gregg on Returning for 'Captain Marvel'
Phil Coulson will be making his Marvel Cinematic Universe return next year, though it will require going back in time. Coulson, played by actor Clark Gregg, has been confirmed for next year's Captain Marvel, though while it hits in 2019 it will ...
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6 years ago+2 2 0Over 80% of teens don't 'Think Different', prefer iPhone to Android
Everyone remembers what it was like being a young teenager and being desperate to fit in with the in-crowd. Who hasn’t looked back at photos from their younger years and laughed at how silly they looked decked out in the fashion of the times? “That’s ...
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6 years ago+21 21 0Cannabinoids are easier on the brain than booze, study finds
Marijuana may not be as damaging to the brain as previously thought, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder and the CU Change Lab. The research, which was published in the journal Addiction, examined the brains of more than ...
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6 years ago+11 11 0Tesla's Self-Driving Autopilot Involved in Another Deadly Crash
Tesla now has another fatality to hang on its semi-autonomous driving system. The company just revealed that its Autopilot feature was turned on when a Model X SUV slammed into a concrete highway lane divider and burst into flames on the morning of F ...
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6 years ago+3 3 0Would you buy a flat-edged Galaxy S9?
The Galaxy S9 and S9+ are some of the best phones money can buy right now — and if you like to keep up with the latest tech, you might already have one. One of the reasons the S9 is so popular is because of its incredible build quality and design. Sa ...
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6 years ago+8 8 0Popular Beer and Wine Brands Contaminated With Monsanto's Weedkiller, Tests Reveal
The past few years have revealed some disturbing news for the alcohol industry. In 2015, CBS news broke the announcement of a lawsuit against 31 brands of wines for high levels of inorganic arsenic. In 2016, beer testing in Germany also revealed resi ...
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6 years ago+19 19 0Malaysia government proposes 10 years in jail for fake news
Malaysia’s government proposed new legislation Monday to outlaw fake news and punish offenders with a 10-year jail sentence, a move slammed as an attempt to silence dissent ahead of a general election. Prime Minister Najib Razak has been dogged by a ...
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6 years ago+15 15 0USPS mail carrier killed by own truck identified
Police have identified a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier pinned and killed by her own mail truck on Wednesday, March 21 in Washtenaw County's Lyndon Township. Tracy Sylo, 56, of Pinckney was killed in the crash about 1:30 p.m. while trying to d ...
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6 years ago+3 3 0Bill Cosby will face up to 5 other accusers at second trial, judge rules
It won't be just Andrea Constand on the stand next month accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault. The judge presiding over Cosby's retrial ruled that up to five other accusers of the former "America's Dad" will get to tell a ju ...
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6 years ago+15 15 0Manafort could face ‘rest of life in prison,’ judge says
Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, runs a significant risk of spending the rest of his life in prison and the evidence against him by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office seems strong, a federal judge declared in an order made publ ...
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6 years ago+16 16 0Dropbox files to go public with over $1.1 billion in annual revenue
Cloud storage company Dropbox filed to raise $500 million in a public offering on Friday, giving investors a first look at the books of a coveted unicorn start-up that was previously valued at $10 billion.
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6 years ago+27 27 0BMW knocks $10K off electric vehicle price in N.J.
BMW of North America is offering a $10,000 rebate on its i3 electric car to customers of Public Service Electric & Gas Co., the New Jersey utility announced Thursday. Combined with a $7,500 federal tax credit, the automaker said the incentive wou ...
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6 years ago+17 17 0This UV Lamp Could Prevent the Flu Virus From Spreading in Public Places
Researchers have developed an ultraviolet (UV) lamp that kills the influenza virus but isn’t harmful to human skin or eyes, according to a new study in Scientific Reports. They hope the technology can be commercialized and marketed to prevent the spr ...
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