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Deputies surround burglar in Oregon home, guns drawn on the Roomba. It's started.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. (KATU) – Deputies responding to a 911 call for a "burglary in progress" at an Oregon woman’s home ended up catching the culprit – a robotic vacuum that was trapped in her bathroom.
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More jails replace in-person visits with awful video chat products
"Video visitation" services cost as much as 50 cents per minute.
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Europe slams 'exaggerated' US tariff threat and prepares to retaliate
The EU has hit back at new U.S. proposals to target European goods with tariffs, following a WTO ruling over subsidies for Airbus.
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Are Georgetown Students About to Make History on Racial Reparations?
A vote happens later this week to create a fund for descendants of the 272 slaves sold by the Jesuit university 181 years ago. It could be a model for other schools.
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There Sure Is a Lot of Poop in Weed, Study Says
If you need another reason to advocate for the legalization of marijuana—a new study shows why weed sold illegally on the street is more likely to have unacceptable levels of feces in it. They don't call it good shit for nothing.
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The wild world of trust funds for pets
A small but growing number of Americans are leaving inheritances to their pets. How is Fluffy using the money?
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The Supreme Court Just Went Medieval on Executions and the Eighth Amendment
Why should Neil Gorsuch care if someone's essentially tortured to death? He'll never know that guy.
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Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit
For over 10 years, VMware was accused of illegally using Linux code in its VMware ESX bare-metal virtual machine hypervisor. After a German court dismissed the case, the Linux programmer behind the lawsuit has called it a day.
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After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters
For months now we've all heard the refrain: Article 13 (now Article 17) of the EU Copyright Directive would not require filters. We all knew it was untrue. We pointed out many times that it was untrue, and that there was literally no way to...
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Jury says Bayer must pay $80 million to man who alleged Roundup caused his cancer
A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded $80 million to a man who claimed his use of Bayer's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused his cancer, in the latest legal setback for the company facing thousands of similar lawsuits. The jury in San Francisco federal court said the company was liable for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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Monica Lewinsky has some choice words about the differences between the Mueller and Starr reports
Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr wasted no time sharing his report on former President Bill Clinton with America
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Supreme Court weighs crackdown on gerrymandering
The justices will hear two cases Tuesday challenging congressional maps drawn to limit one party's political power.
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This chart shows how Saudi Arabia is on course to behead more people than ever before in 2019
The only countries who order more death penalties than Saudi Arabia are China and Iran, but beheading with a sword is unique to Saudis.
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The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center
The work at the S.P.L.C. could be meaningful and gratifying. But it was hard, for many of us there, not to feel like we’d become pawns in what was, in many respects, a highly profitable scam. By Bob Moser.
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Border Patrol detains 9 year old U.S. citizen for 36 hours after falsely accusing her of lying about her identity
In San Diego, the United States Border Patrol grabbed a girl who is 9 and a U.S. citizen and on her way to school, accused her of lying about her identity, then detained her for 36 hours. It's hard to imagine this sort of thing routinely happening under Trump's white supremacist presidency to families who look differently. Say, blonde and white and wealthy.
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All Eyes on Fourth Circuit Hearing in Emoluments Case
Of the many legal challenges President Donald Trump is facing, few have forced legal experts and historians to dig deep quite like claims that his private business dealings with foreign governments violate the Constitution. By Brad Kutner.
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Here’s Every Defense of the Electoral College — and Why They’re All Wrong
Most of the arguments for preserving our insane system are morally odious, unsubstantiated, and/or factually incorrect.
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The campaign for a 'drug-free world' is costing lives
Global policy on drug control is unrealistic, and has taken a harsh toll on millions of the world’s poorest people
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Morris Dees, a Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Is Ousted
The Southern Poverty Law Center did not give a reason for firing Morris Dees, 82, but said that it was “committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization.”
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The CEO behind the college admissions cheating scam wanted to help the wealthy. But that's not all
Claims of a college admissions cheating scam that could send actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman to prison actually centers on a CEO and a company with far less name recognition: William Rick Singer and The Key.
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