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Lawsuit Accuses Upper East Side Aristocrats Of Abusing Their Chilean Nanny
According to a bombshell report in The New York Post, a new lawsuit alleges that an Upper East Side couple kept a Chilean nanny as a "virtual slave" for three months.The woman, Felicitas del Carmen...
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Google Is Taking A Stand Against Child Porn
There are conflicting accounts about the origins of Google's de facto motto. Some say that Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, came up with it at a meeting about "corporate values" in 2000. Others ascribe...
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Passenger On Inbound Flight To Newark Restrained After Saying Everyone On...
A passenger on Newark-bound United Airlines Flight 116 has been restrained after he said that everyone on board had been poisoned, the AP reports.Officials believe the man is disturbed and there is...
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SNOWDEN: 'Being Called A Traitor By Dick Cheney Is The Highest Honor'
National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden on Monday called it an "honor" that former Vice President Dick Cheney referred to him as a "traitor."In a livechat on the website of The Guardian,...
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Edward Snowden Is In The Process Of Destroying Any Support And Sympathy He...
Amid a steady rise of backlash, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency's surveillance methods, conducted a...
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'Sesame Street' Criticized Over Muppet Whose Dad Is In Prison
The iconic children’s television program has recently launched a new campaign called “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration,” which, according to sesamestreet.org is geared toward helping...
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Justice Scalia Joins Liberals To Overturn A Voter Law That's Seen As Racist
The US supreme court ruled on Monday that states cannot demand proof of citizenship when prospective voters register to vote.The 7-2 ruling that struck down Arizona's voter-approved requirement that...
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A Marco Rubio Aide Sparked A Firestorm On Immigration By Saying Some American...
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fla.) office sparked a bit of a firestorm on Sunday when a quote attributed to one of his aides claimed that immigration reform is necessary because some American workers...
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Colombia's 'Zombie Drug' Makes People Willingly Empty Their Bank Accounts For...
BOGOTA, Colombia — The drug scopolamine is also known as “the devil’s breath” or “burundanga.” The late salsa diva Celia Cruz sang about it. In a recent documentary, Vice called it “the world’s...
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Ex-McDonald's Worker Sues After Allegedly Getting Paid With A Prepaid Debit Card
Prepaid debit cards are controversial enough on their own, so the fact that a Pennsylvania McDonald's allegedly pays their employees with them was bound to kick up some bad press.Natalie Gunshannon,...
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6 Laws From 'Lord Of The Rings'
In "The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings," and "The Silmarillion," J.R.R. Tolkien conjured an entire universe called Middle Earth in extreme detail. If he created a real, spoken language for the Elves,...
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Switzerland Has A Booming Illegal Cat Fur Trade
In Switzerland, where it's legal to kill cats, the illegal business of selling or trading cat furs is booming.The sale of cat fur was made illegal in 2008, and people who sell cat fur face tough new...
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EX-NSA DEVELOPER: Hackers Can Take Over Security Cameras To Spy On You
BOSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. security expert says he has identified ways to remotely attack high-end surveillance cameras used by industrial plants, prisons, banks and the military, something that...
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Ex-Purdue Students Charged With Massive 'Grade Hacking' Scheme
Three former Purdue University students have been accused of hacking into professors' accounts to change their grades, allegedly running a complicated scheme that lasted years, the Lafayette Journal...
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OBAMA DEFENDS SECRECY: 'We Could Not Have Carried Out The Bin Laden Raid If...
President Barack Obama defended the ability of the federal government to carry out some intelligence-gathering operations in secret in a wide-ranging interview with PBS' Charlie Rose that aired Monday....
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CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Describes Some Truly Weird Things That Happened...
CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson spoke at length for the first time Monday night about past recurring intrusions into her computer, telling Fox News' Bill O'Reilly of weird occurrences during which her...
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Russian Oil Giants Set To Spearhead Sharp Rise In Private Paramilitary Armies
I’ve just written a short piece for Blouin News on the news that already-relaxed restrictions on the security forces of gas giant Gazprom and oil pipeline corporation Transneft are to be lifted,...
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Daycare Operator Arrested For Allegedly Giving Kids Benadryl-Laced Pancakes
A woman who runs a daycare out of her Ohio home has been charged with child endangerment for allegedly feeding kids pancakes lacedwith medicine to make them fall asleep.Tammy Eppley, 37, denies the...
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How The Supreme Court Justices Made Their Millions
At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer...
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Texas Is Treating Kids Who Skip Class Like Grown-Up Criminals
Texas is one of two states that sends kids who miss class to adult courts that could fine them or even send them to jail.But three advocacy groups have filed a complaint with the Justice Department to...
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