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In-Flight Broadband Is Set for Takeoff
The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday a streamlined process for airlines to get approval for in-flight broadband technology.
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Quality of U.S. medicine: The 'best' health care depends on your perspective
Is the American health care system "the best in the world"? Depends on how you view it.
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The 9 Wildest Things Fox News Said In 2012
From Geraldo Rivera's 'hoodie' comment to Megyn Kelly reporting that US farmers were being spied on by drones to Liz Trotta saying women in the military should expect they might be raped, it's been a crazy year over at Fox News.
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Chick-fil-A’s latest horror
The controversial fast-food chain publishes a children's book loaded with half-truths about farms and animals
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Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
Naomi Wolf: New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent
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Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History
The American government has more information on the average American than Stalin had on Russians, Hitler had on German citizens, or any other government has ever had on its people.
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Silencers: The NRA’s latest big lie
Silencers could give the next Adam Lanza even more time to kill -- but to the NRA, they protect kids' hearing
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Obama hopes to enact new gun-control measures in 2013
Obama pledged that he would not be putting off the issue of gun violence in his next term. President Obama on Sunday said he would make gun control a priority in his new term, pledging to put his “full weight” behind passing new restrictions on firearms in 2013.
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India's ‘Two-Finger’ Test for Rape Needs to End
While India has promised swift justice in the case of the woman who died Saturday after a brutal gang rape, human-rights groups say the problem is much thornier than punishing the six men accused in this case.
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Piers Morgan: "If America won't change its crazy gun laws, I may deport myself"
The MoS columnist angered 90,000 gun-lovers in the US with his views on gun control. Here he explains why he may leave the country that has become his second home.
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The one thing Congress can agree on is violating your privacy
The US government should have the unquestionable authority to spy on its own citizens — in secret, without a warrant, and absent of any semblance of transparency.
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Syrian crisis 'could kill 100,000 in next year'
International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi warns that Syria risks 'Somalisation' and control by warlords as situation deteriorates
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Hillary Clinton hospitalized after doctors discover blood clot
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized Sunday after doctors discovered a blood clot during a follow-up exam related to a concussion she suffered this month, her spokesman said.
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China’s Giant New Warplane Will Look Awfully Familiar to the U.S. Air Force
In what has become an almost annual Christmas tradition, the Chinese military has released the first blurry photos of a brand-new warplane prototype — in this case, Beijing’s first home-built heavy transport. It closely resembles other aircraft in its class including, most notably, the U.S. Air Force’s workhorse C-17.
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France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional
the Conseil prohibited a pending 75% income-tax rise on France’s wealthiest people — another French fiscal move that has generated much negative attention around the world.
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Vietnam maintains 25 years' prison time for bloggers
In a recent ruling, Vietnam has refused leniency to two bloggers who disobeyed the state by allegedly posting anti-government messages online.
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Senator urges Obama to rescind pay raise for Congress
As Americans brace for across-the-board tax hikes, President Obama is giving members of Congress a pay raise.
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Law against anorexic models goes into effect
Models with body mass index below 18.5 may not be shown in Israeli media, on websites or go down catwalk at fashion shows.
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It's official: U.S. hits debt ceiling
U.S. debt reached its legal borrowing limit Monday, giving Congress about two months before it must raise the debt ceiling or risk causing the government to default on its bills and financial obligations.
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Russian court clears prison official in Magnitsky case
A Moscow court has acquitted the only official charged with the death of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. Meanwhile, Russia's president has signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children.
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