Post Overview
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7 years ago+16 16 0Why Was a 26-Year-Old Computer Whiz from Ohio the Last Man Standing at Malheur?
The final holdout at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation earlier this year wasn't a dyed-in-the-wool rancher or hardened militiaman. He was a young, half-Japanese kid from the Midwest who had no affiliation with the Bundy brothers or the Patr ...
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8 years ago+17 17 0Mylan says EpiPen pretax profits 60% higher than it told Congress: Report
Mylan said on Monday the auto-injector EpiPen pretax profits were higher than it told Congress, according to Dow Jones.
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8 years ago+32 32 0Earth's atmosphere is slowly leaking oxygen, and scientists aren't sure why
Don't panic, but researchers have discovered that oxygen is (very) slowly draining out of Earth's atmosphere, and right now, they're not sure why. By analysing air bubbles trapped inside ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a team ...
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8 years ago+22 22 0The newly crowned Miss Teen USA is coming under fire for an alleged history of racist tweets.
The newly crowned Miss Teen USA is coming under fire for an alleged history of racist tweets. Hours after Miss Texas Teen USA Karlie Hay was named the winner of the beauty pageant in Las Vegas Saturday night, commentators began referencing old tweets ...
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8 years ago+7 7 0Philippines President's Obama insult just cost his country millions of dollars
Losses in Philippine stocks are accelerating as foreigners keep pulling money from Asia’s most expensive market, amid speculation that the outbursts of President Rodrigo Duterte are hurting investor sentiment. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index fell ...
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8 years ago+22 22 0Dell Closes $60 Billion Merger with EMC
Dell said it completed its $60 billion deal to acquire EMC, the largest technology merger in history.
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8 years ago+21 21 0Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter
Lots of people have been talking the past few days about TorrentFreak's discovery of the fact that Warner Bros., via its hired DMCA agent Vobile, has been issuing DMCA takedowns on its own website. Specifically, in recent notices to Google from ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0Juan Gabriel Dies From Heart Attack
The world has lost a great singer. Alberto Aguilera Valadez , better known as Juan Gabriel has died at the age of 66. Reports from respected journalist Joaquín López-Dóriga confirm the death of the Mexican singer at his home in Santa Monica, Californ ...
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8 years ago+24 24 0Pneumatic octopus is first soft, solo robot
Engineers in the US have built the first self-contained, entirely soft robot - in the shape of a 7cm octopus.
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8 years ago+2 3 1Katie Couric took $1M pay cut to prevent layoffs at CBS Evening News
Katie Couric took a massive $1 million pay cut in order to save jobs at 'CBS Evening News' it has been revealed. Couric took the salary slash in order to prevent layoffs at the show.
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8 years ago+7 7 0Man’s ‘unusual fixation’ with Lebanese neighbors led to killing, Tulsa police say
Khalid Jabara was worried. Last year, his mother had been jogging through the family’s quiet Tulsa neighborhood when she was nearly killed in a vicious hit-and-run. Police quickly arrested Vernon Majors, who, according to a police report, confessed t ...
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8 years ago+6 6 0YouTube may launch an online TV service next year with ESPN, ABC, and CBS
For a little while now, YouTube has been working on an online TV service for people who aren't interested in subscribing to cable — and now The Information reports that deals are starting to come together. While it sounds like nothing is finaliz ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0'ELVIS NOT DEAD' Graceland groundsman filmed THIS MONTH is 'King aged 81'
As "celebrities who are not really dead" conspiracy theories goes it is one of the longest running and certainly the most famous. But, ever since Elvis Presley's death was announced on August 16, 1977, when he was 42, there have been c ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0Matthew McConaughey Is Interested In Reprising His True Detective Character
If you’ve missed the haunted musings of a certain handlebar-mustachioed homicide detective on HBO, you are not alone. On Wednesday, Matthew McConaughey confessed that he too misses his True Detective character and flat-circle prognosticator—so much s ...
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8 years ago+15 15 0The FBI's Facial Recognition Software Has Never Been Properly Tested For Accuracy
Since 2011 the FBI has used facial recognition software to identify people during criminal investigations. The agency combs through a database of over 411 million photos, including everything from mugshots to driver’s licenses. Today, the Government ...
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8 years ago+14 14 0The Casino That Inspired Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Gets Whacked
Built by mobsters, The Riviera was as defining of ’50s and ’60s Las Vegas as it was dangerous to run. On June 14 the first of two scheduled implosions will make way for the $1.4 billion expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Although it didn’t ...
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8 years ago+3 4 1Muhammad Ali's Family Gathers at Ailing Boxer's Hospital Bedside
Muhammad Ali is in "grave condition" in a Phoenix-area hospital, a well-informed source tells NBC News, as the boxing legend continues to battle a respiratory condition.
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8 years ago+46 46 0 x 1The Minecraft Generation
Jordan wanted to build an unpredictable trap. An 11-year-old in dark horn-rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks, from dizzying towers to entire cities. He recently read “Th ...
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8 years ago+31 31 0Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay
The growth in the nation’s prison population has been nothing short of staggering. The United States’ incarceration rate is now more than four times the world average, with about 2.2 million people in prisons and jails. Of those, roughly 200,000 are ...
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8 years ago+27 27 0Buzz Aldrin Hates Being Called the Second Man on the Moon
Buzz Aldrin is a living legend: a bona fide American hero and tireless public servant. The Apollo 11 astronaut walked on the moon and took the first selfie in space. He’s even appeared on 30 Rock, The Simpsons, and in a Norwegian music video. Everywh ...