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Mothers of gun victims kicked out of NRA headquarters by armed security
The National Rifle Organization (NRA) on Thursday used armed security to force mothers of victims of gun violence to leave the organization’s headquarters. The groups MomsRising.org and the Reston-Herndon Alliance to End Gun Violence traveled to NRA headquarters in Virginia on Thursday to deliver a petition with over 150,000 signatures…
Medieval ‘Black Death’ skeletons found under London railroad site
Workers building a new railway in London have unearthed 13 skeletons thought to be victims of the Black Death plague that swept through Europe in the 14th century, archaeologists said on Friday. The remains were dug up at Charterhouse Square in central London during excavation work for the city’s £15…
Scientists: HIV can be ‘functionally cured’ by early treatment
French scientists announced on Friday that 14 adults who were infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, were “functionally cured” of the infection by early treatment. According to Reuters, a team at Paris Descartes University followed patients who were administered anti-HIV medicines rapidly after infection…
Song creation app wows crowd at South by Southwest
Two brothers from Australia pulled big crowds at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival with a novel app that lets anyone create a song just by crooning into a smartphone. Jam, released eight weeks ago for Apple’s iPhone, was developed by Joe and Sam Russell, members of a musical family…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio ally: Bill to scramble recall elections just ‘respecting the will of the voters’
Confronted by activists on Thursday, Arizona State Rep. John Kavanagh (R) refused to say whether his sponsorship of a bill that would scramble the state’s recall election is meant to defend the embattled Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He defended the bill nonetheless, saying he’s just “respecting the will of the voters.”…
CPAC chairman: We don’t exclude LGBT people ‘based on sexual preference’
The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Conference is denying that certain groups were not invited to this year’s event because they support LGBT rights. When CPAC announced its schedule earlier this year, pro-LGBT groups like the Log Cabin Republicans and GOProud were conspicuously not on the list, even though…
Swiss police raid home of a ‘healer’ who injected 16 with HIV-tainted blood
Swiss police on Friday stormed the Bern home of a self-proclaimed healer who failed to turn up for his trial on charges of injecting 16 people with HIV-tainted blood. Bern police arrested the unnamed 54-year-old man and a woman in the raid, they said in a statement, without providing further…
Obama administration bans Shell from Arctic drilling after they ‘screwed up’
Review finds company had failed to plan for short drilling season and its equipment did not stand up to harsh conditions Shell “screwed up” drilling for oil in Arctic waters and will not be allowed back without a comprehensive overhaul of its plans, the Obama administration said on Thursday. A…
Ted Cruz toasts Breitbart as a ‘great and fearless leader’ at CPAC
At an event for bloggers at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday night, tea party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-SC) toasted the late conservative activist Andrew Breitbart as a “great and fearless leader.” Following a confrontation with Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) over guns at a Senate Judiciary Committee, Cruz…
Coulter on Sen. Feinstein: ‘Liberal women should not be able to hold office’
Reacting to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) blunt reply to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on gun control, Republican pundit and author Ann Coulter exclaimed on Thursday night that the whole conversation makes her think “liberal women should not be able to hold office” in the United States. She explained that her…
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