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7 years ago+25 25 0Afghan official: Massive US bomb death toll rises to 94
The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military has risen to 94, an Afghan official said Saturday. Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said the ...
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7 years ago+17 17 0‘Deaths of Despair’ Are Surging Among the White Working Class
Researchers who sounded the alarm on increasing white working-class mortality blamed the trend Thursday on economic upheaval that created a web of social issues so tightly interwoven that even successful policies would take years to unsnarl them. Mor ...
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7 years ago+22 22 0Americans favor cutting defense spending, not adding billions more, new survey finds
President Trump’s proposed budget for 2018 isn’t following public sentiment, a new survey finds. The survey, by the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC), found that while Trump has proposed a $54 billion boost to federal spe ...
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7 years ago+8 8 0Canadian specialized nurses working in U.S. turned away at border by new immigration policy
Canadian nurses working at Michigan hospitals were shocked last week when border security officers stopped them from entering the U.S. because of changes to their working visas under new immigration policies. Staff at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospit ...
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7 years ago+2 2 0Nike’s Controversial New Zoom Vaporfly 4% Shoes Made Me Run Faster
I thought we were talking about doping; Haile Gebrselassie thought we were talking about shoes. It was November 22, 2012, and we were sitting in Gebrselassie’s eighth-floor office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on a warm afternoon, locked in a long discus ...
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7 years ago+9 9 0Kony 2017: From Guerrilla Marketing to Guerrilla Warfare
Five years after its viral video broke the internet, Invisible Children is on the front line of a covert war against the Lord’s Resistance Army.
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7 years ago+17 17 0‘Stand together against this bigotry': Another Jewish cemetery vandalized and again Muslims reach out to help
Less than a week ago, Tarek El-Messidi, a Muslim activist, helped organize a fundraiser to help with the cleanup of a desecrated Jewish cemetery near St. Louis. It raised more than $130,000, garnering widespread media attention and tweets from celebr ...
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7 years ago+25 25 0Pakistan airline admits taking extra passengers in aisle
Pakistan International Airlines is investigating how seven extra passengers were allowed to stand in the aisles on a flight to Saudi Arabia, a spokesman told the BBC. The passengers were allowed on the 20 January flight to Medina despite every seat b ...
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7 years ago+1 1 0Michigan inmates will face 5-year felony if they throw food, bodily fluids at prison staff members
The Michigan Corrections Organization and Michigan Department of Corrections will post signs this month alerting prison inmates across the state of penalties for anyone threatening to injure prison workers by throwing food, feces or bodily fluids. Th ...
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7 years ago+6 6 0Eric McCormack Sci-Fi Series ‘Travelers’ Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix & Showcase
Netflix and Canada’s Showcase have picked up a second season of Travelers, their original time-traveling sci-fi series starring Eric McCormack, for premiere in 2017. Production on Season 2 of the Canadian-made drama will start in March in Vancouver. ...
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7 years ago+44 44 0 x 1Maybe moderate drinking isn't so good for you after all
We generally assume moderate drinking (two standard drinks per day) is good for our health. This idea comes from studies over the past three decades showing moderate drinkers are healthier and less likely to die prematurely than those who drink more, ...
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7 years ago+2 2 0St. Paul Office of Anti-Abortion Group is Vandalized
The St. Paul office of an anti-abortion group has been vandalized with spray painted messages and an upside-down cross. Brian Gibson is executive director of Pro-Life Action Ministries. He says a staff member found the messages when she arrived at wo ...
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7 years ago0 1 1Rigopiano avalanche: Eight found alive in Italy hotel after two days
Rescuers in central Italy have found 10 survivors after an avalanche buried a mountain hotel. Three were pulled from the snow overnight, bringing the total number rescued to eight. Workers say they will continue efforts to free the other two, and to ...
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7 years ago+7 7 0Backpage shuts down adult section, citing government pressure and unlawful censorship campaign
Backpage.com, one of the world’s largest classified ad websites and a frequent target in the political battle against sex trafficking, closed its adult ads section Monday in the United States, claiming to be the victim of a government witch hunt. The ...
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7 years ago+1 1 0The Best PS4 Arcade Sticks and Fight Sticks
When it comes to fighting games, your typical console controller can definitely get the job done… but when compared with traditional arcade sticks, you might as well be trying to put a square peg in a round hole. At this point in the PS4’s life, ther ...
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7 years ago+10 10 0Inside Peter Thiel’s Genius Factory
The Trump-loving VC tried to prove that brilliant kids don’t need college. Here’s what happened.
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7 years ago+27 27 0Hackers are holding San Francisco’s light-rail system for ransom
San Francisco Municipal Railway riders got an unexpected surprise this weekend after the system’s computerized fare systems were apparently hacked. According to the San Francisco Examiner, the MUNI system had been attacked on Friday afternoon. MUNI r ...
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7 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Officers injured, slain in what appear to be targeted shootings
Police are on high alert -- and in at least one city, mourning -- after four officers were shot Sunday in incidents around the country. Perhaps most startling to law enforcement is that in three of the shootings, it appears the alleged perpetrators s ...
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7 years ago+35 35 0 x 1How the FBI left two Russian defectors stranded in Oregon
As an intelligence officer in Russia’s Federal Security Service, Jan Neumann knew the weight of a loaded Makarov 9 mm. When he later worked for a Moscow bank that laundered money for the mob, he also knew the weight of $1 million packed into bricks. ...
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7 years ago+5 5 0What the heck is happening at Apple? - I, Cringely
“What the heck is happening at Apple?” people ask me. “Has the company lost its mojo? Why no new product categories? Why didn’t Apple, instead of AT&T, buy Time Warner? And why are the new MacBook Pros so darned expensive? After first getting out ...