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Don't Worry, but North Korea's Rockets Can Probably Reach the U.S.
There's no reason you should panic about this news. Continue doing what you do! Football is on in a few hours! But you should probably know that North Korea's rockets can probably reach the west coast of the U.S.
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Walmart Sells Assault Weapons But Bans Music With Swear Words
Why? Because some people find swear words "objectionable."
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6 Terrible Things Gays Blamed For Causing In 2012
When Adam Lanza killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week, people were quick to point fingers at guns, the lack of mental health resources, violence in movies and video games -- and the gays.
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Pot farms wreaking havoc on Northern California environment
State scientists, grappling with an explosion of marijuana growing on the North Coast, recently studied aerial imagery of a small tributary of the Eel River, spawning grounds for endangered coho salmon and other threatened fish.
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The story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama
It was two weeks before Election Day when Mitt Romney’s political director signed a memo that all but ridiculed the notion that the Republican presidential nominee, with his “better ground game,” could lose the key state of Ohio or the election. The race is “unmistakably moving in Mitt Romney’s direction,” the memo said.
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Acting CIA director wants you to know that Zero Dark Thirty is not a documentary
Several events in the film are purely fiction and should not be regarded as real events.
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More than one-third of U.S. households have completely ditched landlines for wireless
National Health Interview Survey for 2012 and has found that 35.8% of American households no longer have any sort of landline telephone in their houses and rely exclusively upon wireless.
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Drug war leaves 20,000 missing people in Mexico
More than 20,000 people have disappeared in Mexico over the past six years of a brutal crackdown on drugs during the government of former president Felipe Calderon, a civic group said.
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LeBron: 'Not my job' to lead league in scoring
LeBron James says his five-game streak of not fouling is even more impressive than his 23-game, 20-plus points scoring streak.
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Nas Sued for $10 Million Over Kidnapping Ordeal
The concert promoter who says he was taken hostage at gunpoint and held for ransom -- all because Nas was a no-show for a gig -- is now suing the rapper…
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When Your Child Kills: The Parents of Criminals
In the aftermath of the Newtown shooting, Andrew Solomon explores what it means to have a child killer. He talks to Dylan Klebold’s family.
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Miss USA wins Miss Universe
For the first time in 15 years, an American has won the Miss Universe pageant. Olivia Culpo, 20, of Rhode Island, donned the coveted tiara Wednesday night.
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NRA Blames Violent Movies And Video Games For Gun Deaths
In its first public statement after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association today blamed “blood-soaked films” and video games as a large part of the problem of gun violence in America.
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, we at Slate have been wondering how many people are dying from guns in America every day. That information is surprisingly hard to come by.
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North Korea says it has arrested American citizen
North Korea has arrested a U.S. citizen for committing an unspecified crime against the country, state media reported Friday, 10 days after U.S. officials said an American had been detained by the reclusive nation.
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New York City Suicide Rate Will Likely Top Murder Rate For 2012.
The New York City murder rate is on pace to reach its lowest point in 52 years.
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Amazon and Google on collision course in 2013
When Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos got word of a project at Google Inc to scan and digitize product catalogs a decade ago, the seeds of a burgeoning rivalry were planted. The news was a "wake-up" call to Bezos, an early investor in Google. He saw it as a warning that the Web search engine could encroach upon his online retail empire, according to a former Amazon executive.
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Let’s go flying over the “fiscal cliff”!
Obama's locked in a game of chicken with the House GOP. But the worst thing he can do is extend tax cuts until 2013
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China to be surrounded by US stealth jets by 2017
The United States’ presence in the Asia-Pacific is about to be much more impressive: by 2017, the US is expected to have all but surrounded China, its number one economic rival, with fleets of the most advanced stealth warplanes in the world.
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LA offers groceries for guns in annual buyback
Long lines of cars and people formed Wednesday to take advantage of a guns-for-groceries exchange program that was moved up in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.
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