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Obamacare Web Users Invited by U.S. to Try Signup Again
from bloomberg.com: About 275,000 people who tried and failed to sign up for Obamacare health plans are being asked by the U.S. government to return to the website as the software flaws that initially shut them out are being corrected. People are being contacted this week in a “series of e-mails in waves” to avoid…
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Ariana Grande Issues Public Apology to Satan’s Minions
from spin.com: In a new interview with Complex, 20-year-old Nickelodeon star and pop singer Ariana Grande reveals that she is haunted by demons. Like, literal demons. Fang-toothed, horn-headed, hoof-having, devil’s minions type demons. Really. Despite having “the most chaste popular music this side of a Christian station” in her new album Yours Truly, or maybe…
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GOCE Satellite Hits Atlantic, But What About Next One?
from abcnews.go.com: This time it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean — but what about next time? The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere early Monday on an orbit that passed over Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The 1,100-kilogram (2,425-pound) satellite disintegrated…
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Obama Spends SNAP Money On Michelle’s “Let’s Move” Program
Obama using food-stamp cash to fund Michelle’s ‘Let’s Move’* from nypost.com: Food stamp cuts are on everyone’s mind, and we’re all trying not to think about how Michelle Obama’s Child Nutrtion Act has had something to do with it. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the food stamp cuts have been a source of much…
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FDA Safety Rule Webpage Crashes Before Comment Deadline
from cornucopia.org: Family farm and consumer advocates have been working for weeks to ensure meaningful public comment on the FDA’s proposed food safety rules. Now the government website that serves as a portal for the public’s comments on food safety is offline, out-of-service, or even refusing to accept comments. “This is potentially disenfranchising thousands of…
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300ft Flames as Crude Oil Train Derails, Explodes in Rural Alabama
from commondreams.org: A train carrying 2.7 million gallons of crude oil derailed near Aliceville in rural Alabama on Friday in a fiery explosion that green groups say illustrates the danger of fossil fuels. The accident, the cause of which is unknown, appears to be the most severe of its kind within the United States since…
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Satellite fragments to crash to Earth
from smh.com.au: Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late Sunday or early Monday after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) says. In a statement, the agency said when and where the pieces would land was still unclear. Experts have previously…
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One Month After Government Shutdown, Silk Road 2.0 Launches
from vocativ.com: The underground black market is back! Meanwhile, the government admits its “whack-a-mole” strategy failed. Last week, it was reported that the mysterious Dread Pirate Roberts II was planning on resurrecting Silk Road—the underground black market shut down by the FBI in October. Today the anonymous founder made good on his promise. The site—which…
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First Openly Gay Bishop Says “Jesus Must Be Cringing”
from advocate.com: Jesus must be embarrassed by the actions of those who claim to follow him — such as those who invoke Christianity in their opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, says Bishop Gene Robinson. “Jesus was always preaching compassion and acceptance for the most marginalized in his time, those pushed to the edges of…
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$1M Bitcoin Theft From Website, Some Say Inside Job
from bbc.co.uk: A man who ran an online “wallet service” for storing Bitcoins has claimed hackers stole virtual currency from his site worth more than one million Australian dollars. The Australian man said 4,100 Bitcoins (US$1.04m, £650,000) were taken in two separate attacks. He said he would not report the theft to police as Bitcoin…
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Mexican Coke Shipped To US Will Still Use Cane Sugar
from ap.org: Fans of “Mexican Coke” in the U.S. need not worry about any sweetener changes. Americans who buy the glass bottles of Coke exported from Mexico may have been dismayed by recent online reports that a Mexican independent bottler planned to switch from sugar to fructose to cut costs. Unlike the exported bottles of…
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Washington Rejects GMO Labels, With Help From Food Companies
from businessweek.com: An expensive fight in Washington state over whether to label foods with genetically modified ingredients appears to have been decided largely by arguments that such labels would lead to higher grocery costs. With most of the votes counted, it appears Initiative 522 to require GMO labeling will lose by a 10-point margin. The…
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One in five suns has habitable world
from bbc.co.uk: Astronomers have estimated how many of the 100 billion stars in our galaxy hosts a potentially habitable planet. Using data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope, they argue that one in five stars like the Sun hosts an Earth-sized world located in the “habitable zone”. This zone is the region around a star where…
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India launches its first mission to Mars
from redicecreations.com: India will aim today to become the first Asian nation to launch a space probe to the planet Mars. (Update: The rocket carrying the probe successfully lifted-off at 09.08 UT). The cut-price mission is due to blast off carrying an unmanned craft to orbit the Red Planet, studying its geology, climate, atmosphere and…