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Republican mentions suffering of Jesus amid anti-abortion speech on House floor

Samantha Bee on LGBT bullying of Christians

Daily Show’s Samantha Bee explores the right’s ‘giant temper tantrum’ about LGBTs

CNN reporter Pamela Brown

CNN reports TV chef choked by millionaire husband looks ‘weak’ and ‘subservient’

Jessica Lynn Howell charged with murder and child abuse

Police: Infant died after mother invited pedophile boyfriend to rape child

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Gas explosion reported just north of New Orleans

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(Reuters) – An explosion at a gas line or gas plant about 80 miles north of New Orleans knocked out power to about 10,000 customers on Tuesday, according to local reports. The explosion occurred in the town of Enon, according to the reports. The sheriff’s office in Washington Parish said…

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Oklahoma set to execute man convicted of stabbing elderly couple to death over $73 for tacos

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By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – Oklahoma is set on Tuesday to execute by lethal injection a man convicted of stabbing an elderly couple to death during a robbery in 2000 that netted about $73, some of which he and convicted accomplices used to buy tacos. James Lewis DeRosa,…

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Obama cites ‘checks and balances’ in defense of ‘transparent’ spy programs

President Barack Obama explains the NSA spy programs to PBS host Charlie Rose. Screenshot via "CBS This Morning."

Appearing on PBS with host Charlie Rose in a 45-minute interview aired Monday night, President Barack Obama gave his most detailed defense yet of the recently-revealed NSA spying programs, saying they are “transparent” because of the “checks and balances” built into them. “If you are a U.S. person, then NSA…

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Lawyers probe jurors for hidden agendas in Trayvon Martin murder case

Trayvon Martin's parents Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin on the fifth day of jury selection at Seminole circuit court in Sanford

By Barbara Liston SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) – A white man with a chest-length gray beard wrote in a questionnaire for prospective jurors that he could keep an open mind about George Zimmerman’s guilt or innocence but he failed to mention the $20 donation he made to the murder defendant’s legal…

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Florida man beaten, left naked in cow pasture on first date

Shaun Paul Williams beaten and left naked on first date

A Florida man says that a first dated ended with him being beaten, forced to strip at gun point, robbed and then left in a cow pasture. A Flagler County Sheriff’s Office case report obtained by NBC News indicated that 34-year-old Shaun Paul Williams was found naked and bloodied on…

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Man charged with murdering prostitutes tells jury: ‘I am not the monster’

File booking photograph of Joseph Naso, charged with the slayings of four prostitutes dating back to the 1970s

By Ronnie Cohen SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) – An elderly California photographer charged with the slayings of four prostitutes dating back to the 1970s opened his own defense at his serial-murder trial on Monday, declaring to jurors, “I’m not the monster that killed these women.” Joseph Naso, 79, who has…

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Yahoo: U.S. made between 12,000 and 13,000 user data requests

The Yahoo logo is displayed in front of the company's headquarters on July 17, 2012 in Sunnyvale, CA. [AFP]

Internet giant Yahoo! said in a letter to users that it has received up to 13,000 requests for information from U.S. law enforcement agencies in a six-month period ending May 31. The letter titled “Our Commitment to Our Users’ Privacy” was posted on the company’s Tumblr page late Monday, and…

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Review shows FBI relied heavily on FISA-enabled ‘secret evidence’ to prosecute accused terrorists

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By John Shiffman, Kristina Cooke and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has used secret evidence obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to prosecute at least 27 accused terrorists since 2007, according to a Reuters review of public records. While the recent spotlight has been on the use…

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Republican cites masturbating fetuses to support new abortion restrictions

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Representative Michael Burgess (R-TX) on Monday asserted that he witnessed male fetuses pleasuring themselves as early as 15-weeks after conception, RH Reality Check reported. His comments came during a House Rules committee debate on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy.…

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U.S. patent case climaxes with win for Canadian vibrator maker

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Couples in the United States looking to spice up their sex lives will have to do without certain adult toys after a U.S. trade panel ruled on Monday that some companies are violating a patent held by a Canadian company for a two-armed vibrator. The U.S. International…

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