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Coal Company Unlawfully Polluted West Virginia Water
Yeah, we only want our pollution to be lawful! from thinkprogress.org: Coal company Alpha Natural Resources violated its state-issued pollution permit by allowing toxic amounts of selenium to seep into West Virginia waters, a federal judge ruled Thursday, the latest event in the state’s ongoing coal-driven water pollution saga. In a decision first reported by…
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Disclosure of drone-strike victims dropped from Senate bill
from RT.com: At the request of US Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, US senators have removed a section from a crucial intelligence bill that would have required the White House to disclose information on those killed by US drone strikes overseas. The fiscal year 2014 intelligence authorization bill passed through the Senate Intelligence Committee…
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Egypt Dig Unearths Earliest Image of Jesus?
from haaretz.com: A team of Spanish Egyptologists may have found one of the earliest-known pictures of Jesus Christ, in a 6th-century tomb unearthed in Upper Egypt. That and other images are painted onto the walls of a crypt inside an underground structure, whose use has otherwise baffled the finders. The main attraction at Al Bahnasa…
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Egypt Dig Unearths Earliest Image of Jesus?
from haaretz.com: A team of Spanish Egyptologists may have found one of the earliest-known pictures of Jesus Christ, in a 6th-century tomb unearthed in Upper Egypt. That and other images are painted onto the walls of a crypt inside an underground structure, whose use has otherwise baffled the finders. The main attraction at Al Bahnasa…
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Efforts to Zap Bacteria in Food are Slow to Catch Hold?
from washingtonpost.com: The nuclear energy that Frank Benso uses to kill bacteria in fruit and oysters has won widespread support from public health officials and scientists, who say it could turn the tide against the plague of foodborne illness. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of radiation to wipe out pathogens in…
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New Vulnerability Found in Every Single Version of Internet Explorer
from gizmodo.com: According to a confirmation by Microsoft late last night, a new zero day vulnerability has been found to affect every version of Internet Explorer. In other words—over a quarter of the entire browser market. Attacks taking advantage of the vulnerability are largely targeting IE versions 9, 10, and 11 in something called a…
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Rubik’s Cube Celebrates 40th Anniversary
from techsonia.com: A must have toy of 1980 and 1981 has turned forty now, and its birthday is being celebrated in a Jersey City exhibition at Liberty Science Center. A Rubik’s cube was developed by Erno Rubik. Any typical Rubik’s cube has attractive different colors and nine squares on six sides. It can be twisted…
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Pope Francis Says ‘Inequality Root of Evil’ in Post-Canonization Tweet
from bloomberg.com: Pope Francis turned his flock’s focus back to social injustice in his first tweet since yesterday’s canonization mass, a celebration that brought world leaders and 800,000 pilgrims to Rome. “Inequality is the root of social evil,” Francis said today via Twitter Inc. to his nearly 4 million followers. Francis, 77, is returning to…
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Possible Food Poisoning Sickens 100 at Food Safety Summit
from nbcnews.com: More than 100 people have now reported they got sick with suspected food poisoning at a national Food Safety Summit held earlier this month in Baltimore. Maryland state health officials say they still don’t know what caused the outbreak of gastroenteritis that left participants suffering symptoms that included diarrhea and nausea. “We are…
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Satanists Campaign to Stop Corporal Punishment in Schools
from dailycaller.com: The Satanic Temple has officially declared May 15th as “Protect Children Day” in an effort to eradicate corporal punishment and the use of isolation rooms across the country. In a press release obtained by The Daily Caller, the group of epicurean lovers of the Prince of Darkness officially announced its Protect Children Project.…
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Rising Food Prices Make Tabs Higher at Markets, Restaurants
from toledoblade.com: Through March, the price of food is up 1.7 percent during the last year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is running ahead of the general inflation rate, currently at 1.5 percent. In March alone, retail food prices rose 0.4 percent from February. And…
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FCC Murders Net Neutrality. Don’t Get Mad – Get Even
from theguardian.co.uk: The former cable and wireless industry lobbyist Tom Wheeler is re-writing rules in favor of the telecom giants – not you, me or the internet. Here’s what you can do to stop him. In January, a federal appeals court rejected regulations designed to assure some measure of fairness in the way America’s internet…
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SpaceX Intends to Build Texas Spaceport
from houstonchronicle.com: SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk on Friday said his company intends to build a launchpad near Brownsville, a significant development that could signal the start of a renaissance in Texas spaceflight as manned activity at the Johnson Space Center has ebbed. At end of an unrelated press conference in Washington, Musk said his…
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Cover Oregon Officially Calls It Quits, State to Use ObamaCare Site
from foxnews.com: Cover Oregon on Friday became the first casualty of the state-run ObamaCare exchanges, as officials formally gave up the fight to offer residents a state health care portal. Instead, Oregon, which has been hemorrhaging millions of dollars on a barely functioning website that has failed to sign up a single person, is turning…
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Pittsburgh Stabbing Suspect Said, ‘I Have More People to Kill”
from cnn.com: A teenager tackled by a vice principal refused to drop the knives he’d used to stab 21 at his Pittsburgh-area high school, saying, “My work is not done, I have more people to kill,” according to a criminal complaint released Friday. While some underwent surgery, none of the 20 fellow students and one…