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Guantánamo is not an anomaly — prisoners in the US are force-fed every day
Prisoners — who are on U.S. soil and not an inaccessible island military base — are routinely and systematically force-fed every day.
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Will legalised marijuana lead to an economic boom?
Marijuana is now legal in Washington state in the north-west of America. Will the sales kick-start an economic boom?
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Nohmul Pyramid Bulldozed In Belize For Rocks
A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize's largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.
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New Hampshire city suing ‘Robin Hood’ for paying parking meters of strangers
The city of Keene, N.H., is suing “Robin Hood and his Merry Men” — a group that has made a name for itself by paying people’s parking meters before they can get slapped with a ticket from local parking enforcement officers.
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NY cigarette-smuggling ring may have terror link
A cigarette smuggling scheme that cost New York state millions of dollars in sales tax revenue may have raised funds for militant groups, authorities said.
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Guantanamo's annual cost per detainee: $900,000
Every day, the workers in the Guantanamo Bay kitchen cook three squares for the detainees held here. And every day, up to 100 of the 166 inmates send them back. They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days.
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Mexican sex traffickers moving into U.S.
Joanna moves her hands nervously as she speaks. Her oversized, golden earrings rattle as she shakes her head to make a point. Joanna is not her real name. She's speaking on the condition that CNN will protect her privacy and not disclose her real name. She's only 16 years old, but has already experienced a lifetime of horror, abuse and torture. She's a former sex slave.
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Cuban golf courses no longer considered 'elitist'
Five decades after Fidel Castro ordered Cuba's golf courses to be closed down because he considered them "elitist", the island's communist government has approved the construction of a luxury golf resort, complete with an 18-hole course.
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New York City Embraces a College's New 'Handicapped' Symbol
With the Gordon College campus as his test lab, Brian Glenney, a philosopher, helped develop the new, more active image.
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Apple's Tax Savings Visualized
How much money does Apple save with its various tax avoidance methods? It's pretty easy and fun to visualize the money as different bites of an apple.
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Why Are Police So Desperate to Throw Kids in Jail?
Cops Go Undercover at High School to Bust Special-Needs Kid for Pot.
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3 feet of snow in upstate NY on Memorial weekend
A Memorial Day weekend storm has dropped three feet of snow on a New York ski mountain near the Vermont boarder.
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7 charged in $6B online money-laundering case
Calling it perhaps the biggest money-laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people Tuesday with running what amounted to an online, underworld bank that handled $6 billion for drug dealers, child pornographers, identity thieves and other criminals around the globe.
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Cuba to expand government-controlled Internet access
Cuba's communist government has presented a plan to expand public Internet access on the Caribbean island nation. But private Internet access in Cuban homes will remain unavailable.
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11 young people go missing from Mexico City's bar
They went missing in broad daylight -- forced into a van at gunpoint. Eleven young people, one only 16 years old, just vanished from Mexico City's popular Zona Rosa entertainment district. That's what their relatives say as they pressure officials to do more to help them.
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MLB reportedly planning massive 100-game drug suspensions for 20 players
Major League Baseball is reportedly on the brink of suspending some of its biggest stars on allegations of doping. According to ESPN, the MLB is looking to suspend about 20 players who it believes...
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Criminal charges laid against Nestle Canada, other companies for chocolate price fixing
Two of the world’s largest chocolate companies are among those facing criminal charges for allegedly conspiring to fix the price of chocolatey treats across Canada. The charges, laid Thursday, come six years after Canada’s Competition Bureau launched an investigation into the allegations, and found evidence suggesting that a price-fixing cartel collaborated, agreed or arranged to set the prices of chocolate products.
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While No One Was Looking: House GOP Voted Against GITMO Closure
Just because the whole world seems to be talking about closing Guantanamo Bay prison — not to mention the President of the United States — doesn’t mean it’s going to happen any time soon. Not if congressional Republicans have anything to do with it.
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Extremely Rare Giant Oarfish Caught on Camera in Gulf of Mexico
The giant oarfish Regalecus glesne has been caught on film in the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
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165 kidnapped migrants freed in Mexico
Mexican authorities say they've rescued 165 migrants who were apparently kidnapped as they tried to cross into the United States. The victims were held for weeks in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, Mexico's Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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