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Delta Air Lines apologizes for 'creepy' Diet Coke napkins, is removing them from flights
Delta Air Lines is removing Diet Coke in-flight napkins that featured a space for passengers to write their phone number for their 'plane crush.'
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Microsoft’s fonts catch out another fraudster—this time in Canada
Will these people never learn?
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Climate Disaster Is Upon Us
The question is no longer whether or not we are going to fail, but how are we going to comport ourselves in the era of failure? By Dahr Jamail.
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The Little-Known Law That the Trump Administration Is Using to Build a Border Wall
Under the Real ID Act, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has the power to bypass environmental safeguards, rendering any ecological downside to a border wall a moot point. By Jimmy Tobias.
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Trump Is Too Incompetent at His Job to Escape His Own Shutdown
He started a bad fight over an unpopular wall and can't admit he's wrong. By Harry Cheadle.
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A watery hell: how a green crew fought the Fitz to save her
The crew of the Fitzgerald endured a bruising operational tempo in the months leading up to the fatal collision that left little time for training. But despite all that, they saved their ship and got her back home. By Geoff Ziezulewicz.
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Best news bloopers of 2018
It's that time again.
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'Brexit is the equivalent of a major defeat in war'
Leaving the EU might well be demanded by the victor as a way of ensuring that Britain was permanently weakened. By Patrick Cockburn.
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The Lie Generator: Inside the Black Mirror World of Polygraph Job Screenings
Want to become a police officer, firefighter, or paramedic? A Wired investigation finds government jobs are one of the last holdouts in using—and misusing—otherwise debunked polygraph technology. By Mark Harris.
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Tyndall Air Force Base a ‘Complete Loss’ Amid Questions About Stealth Fighters
Hurricane Michael tore directly into the base, and some of the Air Force’s most advanced — and most expensive — stealth fighter jets may have been left at the base.
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The worst knife reviewed
Nick Shabazz, a knife reviewer with an amused taste for reviewing particularly bad knives, finds one that "really beats the cake." It's the worst knife he has ever seen, a "fractal of terrible knifemaking" whose terribleness is apparent at every point of inspection.
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Cherry Creek [Colorado] School District to pay $11.5 million to 5 students who were sexually assaulted by a teacher
District failed to address early complaints about former Prairie Middle School teacher Brian Vasquez. By Noelle Phillips.
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2018 Winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels.
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People stroll by as reporter ‘braces’ against wind. Weather Channel blames ‘wet grass’
The Weather Channel defended a widely-criticized video that showed reporter Mike Seidel appear to struggle against winds from Florence while others strolled by behind him. The channel said he was on wet grass.
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Donald Trump tried to colour the US flag in and got it wrong
President inexplicably adds a blue stripe to his version of the star spangled banner
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The F-35 Lightning fighter can't stand up to real lightning, so Marines ordered specialty rods to keep them from going up in flames
A lightning strike to the F-35B Lightning II could fry the onboard systems — or, assuming some of the concerns over non-inert fuel tanks have yet to be addressed, start a fire or cause the aircraft to explode. By Ryan Pickrell.
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Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents
The number of informants executed in the debacle is higher than initially thought. By Zach Dorfman.
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The Art of Not Dying
The First Emperor’s pursuit of immortality. By Edward Burman.
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Sent to a Hospital, But Locked in Prison
They’re not charged with a crime, but these patients still end up in jumpsuits and solitary. By Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, Ashley Nerbovig.
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Best News Bloopers - July 2018
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