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Rep. Steve King: ‘Ronald Reagan’s signature on the 86 Amnesty Act brought about Barack Obama’s election’

Louie Gohmert speaks to Fox News

Gohmert: Force women to give birth to fetuses with ‘no brain activity’

Colbert on atheists and the Pope

Colbert: If atheists can go to heaven, I want my Catholicism refunded

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Jon Stewart rips Obama for going after whistle-blowers instead of bankers

Science

Rugged terrain created by volcanos may have prompted human ancestors’ upright walking

The rugged landscape created by volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts in east and south…

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German brewers demand moratorium on fracking to protect the purity of their beer

The Association of German Breweries sent a letter this week to German Prime Minister Angela…

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EU to ban three harmful bee pesticides from December

The European Commission said Friday that it will ban for two years beginning in December…

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Researcher admits errors in ‘human skin to embryonic stem cells’ study

A blockbuster study in which US researchers reported that they had turned human skin cells…

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Tech News

WikiLeaks releases annotated version of critical film

WikiLeaks has released an annotated version of a leaked transcript of a documentary in a…

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Google team captures Galapagos Island beauty for maps

Google has followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin to gather images of the beauty…

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Media

At the movies, violence is the new sex

Sex may be a turn-off for Hollywood audiences but violence is all over the big…

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Cannes titillated by graphic gay, lesbian sex scenes in featured films

Explicit gay sex has hit the big screen at the Cannes film festival in movies…

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World

Catholic archdiocese in Madrid reportedly training 8 new exorcists to meet parishioner demand

Catholics in and around Madrid concerned that they or their loved ones are suffering from demonic possession may be about…

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Volunteers take search for China’s missing children online

It took dozens of volunteers half a year searching old Chinese maps and villages, but finally the online-organised group helped…

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Mexico is home to the world’s second-largest obese population

Artemio Martinez balanced his corpulent frame on a stool in a Mexico City street taco stand, downing a sweet soda…

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Two arrested after UK fighter jet scrambles to intercept Pakistani airliner

A U.K. military fighter jet was dispatched to escort a Pakistani passenger jetliner flying from Pakistan to England on Friday.…

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Stockholm riots stretch into fifth night

More than a dozen cars were torched and schools, shops and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept…

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U.S. News

Republican Massachusetts Senate candidate: Ed Markey is ‘pond scum’

Republican Massachusetts Senate nominee Gabriel Gomez is lashing out at his opponent, Rep. Ed Markey…

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3 Mexican suspects pleaded guilty to the killing of a U.S. immigration agent

WASHINGTON — Three men have pleaded guilty in US federal court for the 2011 killing…

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Kansas lawmaker opposes ‘encouraging the behavior of purchasing food’ with lower food taxes

A Republican state lawmaker in Kansas says that he opposes cutting the taxes on groceries…

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84-year-old woman with oxygen tank busted for dealing drugs

An 84-year-old woman in Albuquerque has been arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit drug…

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Washington state bridge collapse plunges cars and people into river

A bridge carrying a freeway over a river in the northwestern US state of Washington…

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Senate unanimously approves Sri Srinivasan as first India-born senior judge

The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved Srikanth Srinivasan as the most senior US judge of…

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Republican congressman fined $500 over sexual misconduct

Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) was fined on Thursday in connection to inappropriate sexual affairs with…

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Anthony Weiner’s mayoral campaign off to a rocky start after police called to rally

Former congressman Anthony Weiner began his comeback campaign in Harlem on Thursday at a chaotic…

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