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Hundreds of Immigrants Are Rushing the Border Just to Get Caught
Groups of as many as 200 immigrants have been crossing in broad daylight, told by smugglers they'll face better conditions if nabbed by the Border Patrol.
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Cuba sells 50 cars (yes, 50) in first six months of year
Cuban dealers sold 50 cars and four motorcycles nationwide in the first six months of the year under a new law that removed limits on auto purchases for the first time in half a century but came with prices so high few people could afford them.
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While Washington fights and funds various adventures abroad, Detroit suffers at home - Red Pill Times
The UN is being petitioned to come to the aid of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to help provide water service to struggling customers.
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Should you move to Detroit?
Detroit has had some votes of confidence lately. On Tuesday, Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and the chairman and chief executive of Revolution LLC, a Washington-based venture-capital firm, will kick-start his “Rise of the Rest” road trip in Detroit. He will announce a $100,000 prize for the winner of his pitch competition, before awarding a $100,000 prize to a company in each of these cities: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Nashville. Last month, J.P. Morgan Chase, the country’s biggest bank...
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The "Gypsy Chickens" Of Key West
As you begin to wander around Key West, you will continuously see roosters and chickens walking around freely. On my first trip, this struck me as odd but with KW having a Caribbean feel, not necessarily out of the ordinary.
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Half Baked Headlines #4
Rednecks, superheroes, and public nudity…Must be in the south! I hate to disappoint, but all of this week’s half-baked headlines took place just north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Odd, right? It’s pret...
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Ex-rebel becomes El Salvador leader
Former left-wing rebel leader Salvador Sanchez Ceren has been sworn in as president of El Salvador. Mr Sanchez, 69, of the FMLN party, becomes the first former guerrilla to lead the Central American country following his March victory.
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Dissident blogger launches Cuba's first independent online newspaper
Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez launched Cuba's first independent online newspaper on Wednesday with reports questioning the quality of Cuba's healthcare system but access to its maiden edition was soon redirected to another site mocking the journalist.
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Hundreds evacuated in El Salvador as volcanic activity picks up
More than 1,000 people in El Salvador were evacuated from the area around the simmering Chaparrastique volcano in the east of the Central American country as a precautionary measure against a possible eruption, the government said on Monday.
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The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas. According to documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET – that was implemented without the knowledge or consent of the Bahamian government.
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The Last Communist City
A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see
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The golden opportunity our cities are missing
Living in the city means you don't often see a whole lot of green — but it doesn't have to be that way
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Deadly Illness in Nicaragua Baffles Experts
During the harvest season, when exhausted workers spend seven days a week cutting sugar cane, the signs of illness were hard to spot at first. It was in the off-season, out on the baseball field, that some residents noticed a change. Base-stealers were lethargic. Pitchers were losing their aim. In the evening, outfielders were burning up as if standing under the scorching sun of the day.
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Portland rescues 35 million gallons of urinated-in water from destruction
Water in an open-air reservoir won't be wasted due to a urination incident. Yet.
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Catching the World’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo, or Shorty, was the leader of the multibillion-dollar Sinaloa cartel, which is thought to be responsible for as much as half the illegal narcotics that cross the border every year. El Chapo was said to hide amongst the peaks of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and to be protected by up to three hundred armed men. Mexican authorities code-named the mission to capture him Operation Gargoyle.
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Powerful earthquake rattles Mexico, shakes buildings
A powerful earthquake struck Mexico on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital and sending people running out into the street, although there were no early reports of major damage.
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Reasons Why San Francisco Is the Worst Place Ever
San Francisco is now the home of the most aggressively irritating douchebags in America. It didn't used to be this way. SF used to be a cool place to live. Now, it's just a breeding ground for shitty...
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At The Border, The Drugs Go North And The Cash Goes South
U.S. border officials are constantly on alert for drugs coming in from Mexico. But they are also on the lookout for huge sums of cash leaving the U.S. and trickling back into Mexican communities.
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Suit Filed in Haiti Cholera Epidemic
A class-action lawsuit claiming to represent cholera victims in Haiti and their relatives in the United States was filed against the United Nations on Tuesday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. At issue is the question of accountability for an epidemic that began in 2010 and has since claimed more than 8,000 lives.
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Razor thin margin in El Salvador presidential vote
El Salvador's too-close-to-call presidential runoff election has raised competing claims of victory from a former fighter for leftist guerrillas and the once long-ruling conservative party that fought a civil war from 1980 to 1992. Norman Quijano, the candidate of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, said his party was on "a war footing" and vowed "to fight with our lives, if necessary" to defend what he claimed was his victory.
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