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‘Mind if I smoke?’ taking on a new meaning for D.C. host
Changing times prompt a question: What is the etiquette on marijuana usage?
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The 10 Most Hated Companies in America
Corporations can anger their customers, fail their shareholders, and mistreat their employees. Here are 10 of the worst offenders.
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Data indicate drop in high-capacity magazines during federal gun ban
Analysis of a Virginia database shows a drop-off in high-capacity magazines during the ban and a surge afterward.
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Man arrested for Facebook posts about killing children
A Southern California man was arrested Thursday after Homeland Security officials got a tip that he had been posting threats about killing children on Facebook.
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Actor Jackie Chan calls U.S. ‘most corrupt’ country in the world
Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan has once again provoked criticism, this time from an American blogger, after suggesting on Chinese television that the US is the “most corrupt” country in the world.
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Mega earthquake could rattle length of California
A mega earthquake that would rattle almost the entire length of California was long thought impossible, but new research suggests that such a quake could actually occur.
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Aaron Swartz Died Innocent — Here Is the Evidence
I did not know Aaron Swartz, unless you count having copies of a person's entire digital life on your forensics server as knowing him. I did once meet his father, an intelligent and dedicated man who was clearly pouring his life into defending his son.
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Parents Admit Giving Baby Heroin
The 11-month-old baby boy died of acute heroin intoxication.
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Jerry Springer admits his show is destroying Western civilization
Television host Jerry Springer on Friday described his own show as “an hour of escapism” with “no redeeming social value.”
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NRA President: No Way an Assault Weapons Ban Will Pass…Unless Obama Uses ‘All the Power of His Office’
National Rifle Association President David Keene said Sunday he doesn't think there's enough support to get a new assault weapons ban passed in Congress, unless President Barack Obama uses "all the power of his office" and changes the game.
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Vintage Vegas: Rare Photos of a Desert Boomtown
Of all the major destination towns in the U.S., Las Vegas might be the most perfectly, unashamedly transparent. No other city in North America, after all — and perhaps no other city in the world — has for so long been so identified with one pursuit: namely, the heart-pounding, more-often-than-not-futile hunt for the improbable, near mythic Big Score.
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Armstrong admits to Oprah he cheated during cycling career
Lance Armstrong, who for years vehemently denied cheating while winning a record seven Tours de France, told Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs to advance his cycling career, according to media reports.
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The High Price of Being Single in America
Over a lifetime, unmarried women can pay as much as a million dollars more than their married counterparts for healthcare, taxes, and more.
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Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies
Honest Americans Bought Enough Guns in November and December to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies The Obama Administration is the number one threat to the nation's gun rights advocates.
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Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans
Sen. Ron Wyden wants John Brennan, President Obama's nominee to lead the CIA, to explain the administration's rationale for targeting U.S. citizens with drone strikes.
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Good Samaritan finds kidnapped child
A 5-year-old girl abducted Monday from a West Philadelphia elementary school was found early Tuesday barely dressed and crying under a slide at a playground, police said.
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18 Severed Human Heads Discovered in Package at Airport
Officials at Chicago's O'Hare Airport intercepted a package containing eighteen severed human heads yesterday, and are getting a little tired of everyone acting like it's weird.
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8 Ways America Was Better Off During the Cold War
In many ways the Cold War era in America was a nightmare. In other ways, we're actually worse off now.
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Revealed: America's arms sales to Bahrain amid bloody crackdown
Human rights advocates question whether US-manufactured ammunition and helicopters were used against civilian protesters.
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How California’s Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It
Today, the largest university system in the world, the California State University system, announced a pilot for $150 lower-division online courses at one its campuses--a move that spells the end of higher education as we know it.
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