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Mexico: Dangerous - and safe as ever
Outside of war zones, more Americans have been killed in Mexico in the last decade than in any other country outside the United States. But analysts and travel experts agree that security varies -- sometimes dramatically -- from place to place.
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Three years after BP oil spill, clean up efforts finally wrap up
Three years after the worst oil spill in US history, BP said Monday it has wrapped up “active” cleanup operations in three US states but continues to patrol a stretch of Louisiana.
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The Making Of A Mole
Homeland Security agent Jovana Deas was torn between a burgeoning career in federal law enforcement and a family with ties to a notorious Mexican drug cartel. Was her betrayal of the agency a failure of character or of a system she should have never been part of in the first place?
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These Photos Of NYC's Subway Project Are Astonishing
New York City is doing some serious work on the Second Avenue Subway, the first new line built under the city since 1932. The $4.5 billion project aims to decrease commuter congestion for east Manhattan. Check out these pictures. They are incredible.
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America’s Epidemic of Psychiatric Over-Diagnosis
More and more people around you are being diagnosed with depression or ADHD, but is that an illusion? There is an epidemic in America, but it’s not an epidemic of psychiatric disorders—it’s an epidemic of over-diagnosis that’s making billions for pharmaceutical companies and the doctors prescribing these drugs.
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Archaeologists find 'Chactun,' a long lost Mayan city in eastern Mexico
A team of archaeologists have found a long lost Mayan city in the rainforests of eastern Mexico, and they're hoping the discovery will help them figure out what led to the ancient civilization's rise and fall centuries ago.
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Husband Murders Wife by Disabling Airbag, Crashing Into Tree
A former airline pilot was sentenced today to 24 years behind bars for murdering his wife by disabling her airbag, undoing her seat belt, and then intentionally driving into a tree.
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Gay Marriage Now A State-By-State Battle
After this week's Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage, supporters and opponents are turning their attention to individual states, where several legislatures are expected to take up the issue.
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Manhattan Fold ’Em
A high-stakes game that started off at Tobey Maguire’s house launched the career of Molly Bloom, poker hostess. Now the government, on the trail of a vast gambling ring involving the Russian mob and Carlyle Hotel gallerists, wants to end it.
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5 Popular Medications You Won't Believe Mess With Your Brain
If you want to terrify yourself, go into your medicine cabinet and read all of the really weird side effects at the bottom of the label. Beyond the normal "headache" or "upset stomach," you get weird shit that reads like ironic punishments from a vengeful genie.
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Costa Rica 'accidentally' legalises gay marriage
The Costa Rican Legislative Assembly 'accidentally' passed a bill earlier this week that could lead to the legalisation of gay marriage, it has emerged. Conservative lawmakers voted for the bill to pass but later realised that a change in the language could allow gay marriage.
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Cop Bullying at 4th of July DUI Checkpoint
Officer Ross orders me to pull over and get out of my car, bullies me around, gets the drug sniffing K-9, lies about me having "Illegal Drugs" in the car, searches without consent, and tells me that it is ok to take away my freedom. All while not being detained. All this harassment because my window was not lowered enough to his preference. I broke no laws whatsoever.
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Pepsi Plans to Drop Disputed Cancer Chemical
Although the FDA has not declared 4-MEI dangerous, Pepsi says it will remove the chemical from cola sold nationwide by February 2014
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America is no longer the fattest, how Mexico took the lead..
A UN report says Mexicans are the heaviest of the world's larger nations, even as they battle hunger and malnutrition. How did it come to this?
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Rapper Mos Def force-fed in shocking Gitmo demonstration
The video gives a raw and visceral look at how prisoners on hunger strike are fed against their will twice daily.
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North America - Anglo-Powhatan Wars
The Anglo-Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century.
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Most Canadian babies now born to moms 30 and older
It’s no longer unusual for women to have a first child at age 35 or even 40. In Canada, this rise in births to older mothers has produced a striking turnabout: For the first time on record, birth rates are higher for women in their late 30s than in their early 20s.
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10 reasons why Florida is the weirdest state in America
With the George Zimmerman trial under way, it's time to reflect on the things that have made Florida the nuttiest state in the union.
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Prosecution paints Zimmerman as angry vigilante in closing arguments
Attorneys in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial will be making their closing arguments.
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30,000 inmates take part in California’s largest hunger strike
Nearly 30,000 inmates across two-thirds of California’s 33 prisons are entering into their fourth day of what has become the largest hunger strike in California history. Almost a quarter of the approximately 150,000 inmates throughout California’s vast prison system, including those housed in privately-owned out-of-state facilities contracted by the state, are protesting deteriorating prison conditions and the use of indefinite solitary confinement.
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