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CDC begging young and middle-aged people to get flu shots as death toll rises

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a stern warning to young…

Writing on his blog, global climate change skeptic Dr. Roy W. Spencer, decried the use…

Sadly, we hear too much about the logging, clearing, and obliteration of earth’s rainforests, and…

The El Nino weather pattern that can trigger drought in some parts of the world…

Tech News

Google’s director of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, predicts that the AI dating depicted in the Oscar-nominated…

Jan Koum, an immigrant from Ukraine, was so poor as a teenager that he used…

Media

A lawyer has sued Paramount Pictures and the makers of “The Wolf of Wall Street”…

A mural created on the side of a building by the elusive British street artist…

U.S. News

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday singled out New Jersey’s…

Police in Ada, Oklahoma arrested a substitute teacher outside of an elementary school for allegedly…

By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office said…

George Gallo, the chief of staff for Connecticut’s House Republican leader, suddenly resigned Thursday after…

By Carey Gillam (Reuters) – Farm workers, children and other people working or living near…

World

Calling someone a “foreign pig” or “dirty asylum-seeker” is insulting but is not against Switzerland’s anti-racism law, the country’s top…

Anti-slavery teams are to be deployed at British airports in a bid to identify potential victims of human trafficking, the…

The United States on Friday welcomed a deal to end Ukraine’s political crisis between the government and opposition protestors and…

“It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood.” The line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth might easily have been written…

HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwean court on Friday ordered the deportation of former U.S. congressman Mel Reynolds after he pleaded…

By Natalia Zinets and Richard Balmforth KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine opposition leaders signed an EU-mediated peace deal with President Viktor…

If approved, changes to laws on possession and sale in capital could pave way for regulated marijuana dispensaries Deep in…