Post Overview
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Current Event
9 years ago
+23 23 0British ambassador accuses Russia of war crimes in Syria
Britain's ambassador to the United Nations has walked out of an emergency session of the Security Council after accusing Russia of committing war crimes. Matthew Rycroft, alongside the French and US ambassadors, walked out of the sesson when Syr ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+22 22 0Illegal Wildlife Traders Aren't Welcome on the Dark Web
Wildlife traders attempting to use the dark web to illegally flog rare and exotic animals are getting flamed by other users, a privacy expert has told Motherboard. Joss Wright, a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, said that during his ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+21 21 0Mike Rowe of ‘Somebody’s Gotta Do It’ confronts peeping drone while nude, wielding shotgun
Mike Rowe, America’s favorite “everyman,” warned his Facebook followers this week that a peeping drone has footage of him wielding a shotgun in his birthday suit. CNN’s “Somebody’s Gotta Do It” host took to social media Tuesday with a posted titled “ ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+5 5 0British troops condemned over Iraqi boy's death in 2003
Four UK soldiers who "forced" an Iraqi boy into a canal and let him drown have been condemned by a judge investigating civilian deaths in the Iraq War. Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali, who was 15, died in Basra in May 2003 after he was detained on ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+31 31 0Utah Cheerleaders Feel 'Body Shamed' After Male Classmate Complains That Their Skirts Led to 'Impure' Thoughts
Last week, when a male student at Timpview High School in Provo, Utah, complained to a school counselor that the uniforms worn by cheerleaders on game day were causing him to have “impure” thoughts in class, the conversation could have ended there. B ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+2 2 0School bus goes up in flames with 20 kids on board
A school bus with 20 children on board caught fire Monday in Maryland, but quick action by the driver is credited with getting all of them off -- and without any injuries, reports CBS Baltimore. It happened in the 9600 block of 51st Ave. in College P ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+7 7 0Latvian neo-Nazis demolish Soviet WWII monument to fallen sailors
A neo-Nazi group, including former Latvian Nazi Waffen SS veterans, has demolished a monument to fallen Soviet troops in a Latvian town with the support of a nationalist party which forms part of the ruling coalition in Latvia’s parliament. The monum ...
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Analysis
9 years ago
+2 2 0Ten underappreciated philosophers of the Islamic World
The philosophical contribution of Islamic culture often goes unacknowledged, and when it is recognized, it is often reduced to a discussion of Islamic influence on European philosophy, especially in the medieval period. In this timeline, Peter Adamso ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+2 2 0A typo and a bag of kitty litter might cost US taxpayers billions in nuclear waste cleanup
A typo and a bag of organic kitty litter may end up costing United States taxpayers more than $2 billion in nuclear waste cleanup, according to a new report by Ralph Vartabedian at the Los Angeles Times. Back in February 2014, a drum of nuclear waste ...
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Video/Audio
9 years ago
+29 29 0Black hole breakthrough found on earth
Haifa-based scientist Jeff Steinhauer has simulated a black hole in his laboratory, and it might be the breakthrough that helps celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking win the Nobel Prize. CNN's Ian lee reports.
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Current Event
9 years ago
+7 7 0Police: Estranged boyfriend in Ala. kills 5, including pregnant woman
27-year-old Derrick Dearman of Mississippi has been charged with the brutal murder of five people early Saturday in Alabama Time. Police in southwestern Alabama said Sunday a 27-year-old man who confessed to killing five people early Saturday, includ ...
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Analysis
9 years ago
+25 25 0How Bad Is Your Air-Conditioner for the Planet?
We may be in the clear when it comes to heat domes, but it’s still really hot. More than half the country could see temperatures in the 90s by the end of the week, and if that forecast comes true, you may find relief in the cool, crisp breeze of an a ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+6 7 1An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
Before Nicolás (Shaco) Flores was killed, deep in the Peruvian rain forest, he had spent decades reaching out to the mysterious people called the Mashco Piro. Flores lived in the Madre de Dios region—a vast jungle surrounded by an even vaster wildern ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+19 19 0After years of decline, Mexico's murder rate is heading back to peak drug war levels
Mexico's murder rate is getting significantly worse again, after a few years during which the killing had begun to fall off. According to official figures released this week, the number of murders in Mexico during the first half of this year was ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+41 41 0Body count rises as new Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed
Newly-installed Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his tough stance on crime by urging the public to not only kill drug dealers, but addicts as well. His remarks came barely a day after he was sworn in as the country’s 16th presiden ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+1 1 0LeBron James pledges $87M for hometown kids to attend college
LeBron James is giving back to his hometown of Akron, and the dollar figure on his commitment is staggering. The Cavaliers superstar has teamed with the University of Akron to give four-year scholarships to any child who completes his “I Promise” cam ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+33 33 0Champagne socialists in Venezuela party as people starve
'Why shouldn't we enjoy ourselves just because the country is burning?' Super-rich Socialists quaff champagne in Venezuela country club while middle class mothers scavenge for scraps in the gutter... and even the DOGS are starving. Ven ...
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Expression
9 years ago
+27 27 0Nick Bostrom: ‘We are like small children playing with a bomb’
You’ll find the Future of Humanity Institute down a medieval backstreet in the centre of Oxford. It is beside St Ebbe’s church, which has stood on this site since 1005, and above a Pure Gym, which opened in April. The institute, a research faculty of ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+24 24 0In a moving, tearful speech, Utah's lieutenant governor apologized for past homophobia
At a Monday vigil in Salt Lake City for the victims of the Orlando shooting, Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox gave a moving, tearful speech apologizing to the LGBTQ community for treating them poorly in his early life, and expressing gratitude to them for h ...
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Current Event
9 years ago
+20 20 0Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog
Finding buried treasure is a dream as old as stories themselves. Treasure chests overflowing with gold doubloons, shiny lamps containing genies, gargantuan lumps of thousand-year-old butter. Okay, maybe most don't dream of unearthing enormous ch ...




















