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Press TV: Scientists have reported that countries with higher cases of infectious diseases such as malaria have lower intelligence. People who live in countries where disease is rife may have lower IQs because they have to divert energy away from brain development to fight infections, scientists in the US say. They found that the level of infectious ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose last week for the second time in three weeks, a sign that layoffs are rising. The Labor Department says new claims for jobless benefits jumped by 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000. Analysts expected a small drop, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters. Greater layoffs by construction ...
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From gizmag.com Gizmag: I came across this device while trolling the floor at Computex and I stopped at a stand in the middle of the vast penny booths section because there was a cute bicycle speaker which clips to the handlebars, charges via USB and has two bags underneath to hold your wallet, keys, phone etc. It ...
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Politico: Minority Leader John Boehner is two days into a Democrat beat-down – a small taste of what he can expect should he become Speaker of the House and a test of his resilience as a leader. Democrats hammered the Ohio Republican for his assertion that the Wall Street reform bill is "killing an ant with a ...
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NY Times: WASHINGTON — As General David H. Petraeus takes command in Afghanistan, the two top American civilian officials in the war face an uncertain and tricky future, working with a newly empowered military leader, under the gaze of an impatient president who has put them on notice that his fractious war council needs to pull ...
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Washington Post: The Pentagon has recommended that the White House consider awarding the Medal of Honor to a living soldier for the first time since the Vietnam War, according to U.S. officials. The soldier, whose nomination must be reviewed by the White House, ran through a wall of enemy fire in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley in fall 2007 ...
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Non-photoshopped, real Mexican newspaper cover "To work, my nigger" Washington Times: by Dan Stein The Obama administration has announced that it intends to sue Arizona over its new law that will allow the state to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration laws. The stated goal of the lawsuit is to block implementation of the popular Arizona law ...
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Police say they are reopening an investigation into allegations by a Portland massage therapist that former Vice President Al Gore groped her at a hotel in 2006. In a brief statement Wednesday, the Portland Police Bureau did not say why it was reopening the investigation. Police earlier said they considered the case ...
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Guardian: Methane at 100,000 times normal levels have been creating oxygen-depleted areas devoid of life near BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, according to two independent scientists Scientists are confronting growing evidence that BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is creating oxygen-depleted "dead zones" where fish and other marine life cannot survive. In two separate research voyages, independent ...
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Fox News: A former Justice Department attorney who quit his job to protest the Obama administration's handling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case is accusing Attorney General Eric Holder of dropping the charges for racially motivated reasons. J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a conservative blogger for Pajamas Media, says he ...
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Los Angeles Times: California welfare recipients have been able to get taxpayer cash -- meant to feed and clothe needy families -- from ATM machines at strip clubs across the state, including some well-known gentlemen’s cabarets in Los Angeles. More than $12,000 from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was dispensed from the start of 2007 ...
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Fox News: A small Tennessee-based newspaper has become the center of a free speech firestorm after it was banned from a grocery store chain and a KFC for allegedly publishing "hate" speech. The Rutherford Reader, a family owned and operated business, runs feature columns of local interest, many of which lately have related to controversy surrounding a ...
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The Hill: President Barack Obama has attacked House GOP Leader John Boehner for comparing the financial crisis to an ant. Obama struck out at Boehner (R-Ohio) during a town hall meeting in Racine, Wis., for saying the Wall Street reform bill was akin to using a nuclear weapon to kill an ant. "That’s right. He compared the financial ...
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