Tuesday, June 3, 2014

In the news, Friday, May 9, 2014


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Some links to some sources may require subscription.

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from ABC News (& affiliates)


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from About.com

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*from ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice)


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from Alex Jones (INFOWARS.COM)
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from Allen West


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from AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens


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from The American Spectator


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from Ancestry.com


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from AsiaNews


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from Associated Press


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from The Atlantic


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from BBC News (UK)


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from BizPac Review


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from The Blaze


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from Bloomberg


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from Breitbart

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from BuzzFeed


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from CBC News (Canada)


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from CBS News (& affiliates)


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from Ceasefire Magazine (UK)


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from Charisma News


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from Choice and Truth
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from The Christian Science Monitor


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from CNN
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from CNSNews.com (& MRC & NewsBusters)


Harry Reid Slams 'Tit for Tat' Media: Press Should Just Blame GOP for Washington Dysfunction
Harry Reid Wants The Press To Do What We Document Them Doing 24/7


Urban Texans Lead Nation in Not Biking to Work
Given how hot it gets in Texas, this makes complete sense.


CNN Guest Admits Panel Is Playing Into Democratic Hands
On Friday's New Day, the CNN panel was discussing whether or not Republicans are politicizing the Benghazi tragedy and The Atlantic's Molly Ball admitted the subject matter was playing right into Democratic hands. "This is exactly the story that Democrats would like us to be talking about, right?" she asserted. "Instead of talking about the facts, instead of talking about an investigation that seems serious and that is unearthing new information, we're talking about how political it is."


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from Columbia Basin Herald


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from Conservative Infidel


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from Crosscut


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from Cyndi's List


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from The Daily Beast


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from The Daily Caller


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from Daily Mail (UK)


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from Discovery News


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from DW (English)


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from EarthSky


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from East Oregonian


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from Examiner.com
[Information from this site may not be vetted.]


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from Facecrooks (& Bitdefender)


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from Family Tree Magazine


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from The Farmacy
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


Why I got a Vasectomy… at age 25
[via Expanded Consciousness]

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from The Federalist


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*from The Federalist Papers


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from Food & Wine


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from Forbes


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from Fox News (& affiliates)


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from Freedom Foundation (WA)


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from The Globe and Mail (Canada)


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from Greatist


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from The Guardian (UK)


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from h+ Magazine


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from Hartford Courant


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from Health and Happiness
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from The Heritage Foundation  (The Foundry)


The Benghazi Select Committee Has Been Established. Why That's a Good Thing.



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from The Hill


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from The Hindu  (Chennai / Madras, India)


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from History


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from Huffington Post


To the Women Who Dread Mother's Day


Robert Reich Trashes White House 'Numbskull' For Walmart Event
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich trashed the White House on Thursday for using Walmart, an enemy of unions and fair-pay advocates, as a poster company for a new climate-change campaign.


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from Human Events


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from IdahoReporter.com


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from iFIBER ONE News (WA)


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from The Independent (UK)


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from Independent Journal Review


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from International Business Times


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from International Christian Concern
(PERSECUTION.org)


Egypt’s Christians Missing in the Struggle for Rights
Egypt is preparing for presidential elections at the end of this month. The United States Congress is considering resuming its financial assistance to Egypt. Against the backdrop of these two events, the situation for Egypt’s Christians remains dire. In Mallawi City, there is a sense of panic and fear amongst Christians, especially after the abduction of Michelle Shenouda. In 2014 alone, there have been at least 22 kidnappings throughout Minya province. Minya has been a flashpoint of violence against Christians in recent years. Attacks have increased over the nine months since Islamist President Mohammed Morsi has been removed from power. Safaa Saleh, writing for Al-Monitor, said, “The year 2013 saw great strife in Minya, where as many as 30 churches were burned and many people were killed.” This violence has continued into 2014 with Christians regularly being abducted and held for ransom.


Amnesty International Claims Nigeria Had Advance Warning of Mass-Abduction, Failed to Act
ICC Note: Amnesty International has reported that Nigerian security officials had advance warning of the impending mass-abduction of more than 240 predominately Christina school girls from a Chibok secondary school on April 14. A U.S. task force deployed to Nigeria has arrived and is now assisting the state and it’s security personnel with intelligence in its efforts to locate and release those still missing. Time remains of the essence following the release of a video featuring Boko Haram’s leader and spokesman, Abubakar Shekau, promising to act on Allah’s “instruction” to sell the girls into domestic and sexual servitudes, including forced marriages, in some cases to the girls’ very captors.


Watch Out for Burma’s Move to Restricting Interfaith Marriages Law
Burmese activists: law against mixed marriages "targets women and religious harmony "
ICC Note: 97 Burma civil society organizations have condemned the proposal of a bill restricting interfaith marriages that may harm women’s rights and religious freedom. Most of citizens in Burma are Buddhist. Supported by Buddhist extremists and the President, the proposal would require Buddhist women to seek permission from their parents and the authorities before marrying outside Buddhist faith. Activists from a local Christian group expressed that the bill could harm religious freedom, especially for women.


Anti-Christianity Campaign Taking Place in Zhejiang Province, China
(More Churches and Crosses Forcibly Removed in Zhejiang Province, CCP and Government Officials’ Religious Belief Being Surveyed) ICC Note: The Chinese article is discussing an anti-Christianity campaign being carried out step by step by Zhejiang province authorities: over 10 churches have been demolished since April, 2014; local house churches in Wenzhou city have received government notice to stop gathering; more than 10 crosses on church rooftops have been removed and many others are covered up; the Wenzhou city government have started investigating and recording government officials’ belief status; many believers’ family members involved in the government or local business are harassed by the government. Some local believers expressed the concerns that a persecution in full swing in Zhejiang province may appear. However, there is not yet a formal public statement from either state church or house church leaders.


Women of the U.S. Senate Ask Obama to Push for U.N. Designation of Boko Haram as International Terrorist Organization
ICC Note: Female members of the U.S. Senate composed a letter Wednesday asking President Obama to pressure the U.N. for Boko Haram's designation as an international terrorist organization in an effort to stop funding to the radical insurgency. With hopes of U.S. aid to Nigeria resulting in the location and release of more than 240 majority Christian school girls from a secondary school in Chibok on April 14 by members of Boko Haram, Senator Susan Collins is specifically calling for the deployment of U.S. Special Forces to Nigeria. The girls, reportedly being held at a Boko Haram stronghold on Nigeria's border with Cameroon, face potential sale to human trafficking rings, domestic and sexual servitude, and forced marriage, in some cases to their very captors. Promising to abduct more girls in the future with the intent of selling them into slavery, Boko Haram continues to carry out its campaign of terror for the establishment of a separate Islamic state ruled by Sharia Law on Nigeria's susceptible Northern Christian communities on an increasingly grand scale.


United Nations, International Criminal Court Condemn Mass-Abduction, Trafficking of Primarily Christian Girls
ICC Note: As each day passes with still no progress in locating and releasing the more than 240 girls (90% of whom are reportedly Christian) abducted from a secondary school in the predominantly Christian town of Chibok on April 14 by Boko Haram militants, the likelihood the Islamic insurgency will carry out it's leader's pledge to sell the girls "on the marketplace." In a video released Monday, Boko Haram leader and spokesman Abubakar Shekau both took responsibility for the abduction and relayed his intention to follow out Allah's "instruction" that he sell the girls into domestic and sexual servitudes, including forced marriages, in some cases to their very captors. In a statement released Monday as well, U.N. Spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights commented on the situation, threatening criminal retributions to all involved in the kidnapping, regardless of the Nigerian state's current inability to apprehend and turn over perpetrators to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has declared the trafficking of the abducted a crime against humanity.


Iranian Church Growing Despite Risk of Death
ICC Note: While there have been promises for reform in Iran, the reality has been that the crackdown on its religious minorities is increasing if anything. Despite this, the Iranian church appears to be growing. The intolerance and repression is driving many to look for a more meaningful belief system and they many are finding it in Christianity.


Christians Persecuted At Alarming Rate In Iran, Arab World, US Report Says
ICC Note: In the 2014 report released by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom they highlight the staggering rate of persecution taking place in the Middle East. While legislation and diplomatic tools are in place for the United States to address these concerns, the Obama administration has shown very little willingness to do so. From time to time public statements have been made, but very little true action has been taken to address the issue.


Death Threats to Christians in Jerusalem Ahead of Pope Francis Visit Have Roman Catholic Church Concerned
ICC Note: Vandalism and threats of attacks against Christians before the visit of Pope Francis to Jerusalem have sparked renewed interest in the hostility towards Christians in Israeli controlled areas. The occurrence of “price tag” attacks of vandalism has been on the rise. The most recent threats have been considered “explicit and serious” and church leaders are hoping that Israeli security officials will take it seriously.


Violence Surrounding Blasphemy Cases in Pakistan on the Rise
ICC Note: Violence surrounding blasphemy cases in Pakistan is on the rise. In the past year, four individuals, including three Christians on one Muslim, have been sentenced to death under the controversial law. Originally intended to promote religious harmony, blasphemy laws have mutated into tools used by Islamic radicals to persecute religious minorities, settle personal scores and realize financial gain. Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan find themselves disproportionately accused and convicted of blasphemy. Earlier this week, a lawyer brave enough to take on the case of a professor accused of blasphemy was gunned down in his own law office. Please pray for the future of Pakistan and an end to the blasphemy laws.


Islamic Radicals Murder Christian Lawyer for Taking on Blasphemy Case in Pakistan
ICC Note: Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws continue to be a source of persecution and abuse in the South Asian country. Earlier this week, a Christian lawyer was shot and killed in his law office because of his willingness to take on the case of an individual accused of blasphemy. The accused, a professor of English, was accused of blasphemy in March 2013. Since then, he had been unable to find legal representation due to the fear surrounding blasphemy in Pakistan. In February 2014, the Christian lawyer took on the professor's case. This decision proved fatal. Please pray for all those who suffer under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.


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*from Jen Kuznicki


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from Judicial Watch


DHS Emails Reveal U.S. May Have Terrorist “Hands Off” List
The Obama administration appears to have a terrorist “hands off” list that permits individuals with extremist ties to enter the country, according to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents obtained by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley.


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from The Jerusalem Post


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from KATU News (Portland)


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from KGW-TV (Portland)


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from KHQ Local News (Spokane)


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from KING 5 (Seattle)


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from KIRO 7 Eyewitness News (Seattle)


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from KOIN Local 6 News (Portland)


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from KOMO News (Seattle)


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from KREM 2 News (Spokane)


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from KXLY 4 News (Spokane)

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from LifeNews.com


from MEDIAite


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from Media Matters for America


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from Money Talks News


from Mother Jones


Elizabeth Warren Slams Chair of the GOP's New Benghazi Committee
The Massachusetts senator says she knows "a little bit about the way [GOP Rep.] Trey Gowdy pursues oversight"—because in 2011, she "was on the other end of it."


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from Mother Nature Network


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from MSN News


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from The National Audubon Society


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from National Geographic


Rare Megamouth Shark Caught Off Japan’s Coast

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from National Journal


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from National Review


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from Natural Society
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from NBC News (& affiliates)


Postal Service posts another quarterly loss
The Postal Service says it lost $1.9 billion over the first three months of this year and is pleading again for Congress to pass reforms to its financial system.


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from The New Republic


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from Newsmax


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from New York Daily News


Retired black cop speaks out on going undercover with KKK in Colorado
With the help of a white colleague, Ron Stallworth went undercover with a Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs in the late 1970s after answering a newspaper ad.


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from New York Magazine


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from New York Post


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from New York Times


Paul Diverges From His Party Over Voter ID


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from Northwest Watchdog


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from NPR (& affiliates)


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from NWCN (ID-OR-WA)


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from The Oregonian


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from PBS (& affiliates)


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from Personal Liberty


Obamacare Patients In SoCal Go To Tijuana To Get Affordable Care


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from Pew Research Center


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from PJ Media


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from POLITICO


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from PoliticusUSA


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from Popular Science


The Navy's Next Heavy-Duty Helicopter Can Carry 27,000 Pounds
Plus, a new armored SUV


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from Press TV (Iran)


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from PreventDisease.com
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]


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from Psychology Today


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from Q13Fox News (KCPQ Seattle)


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from Real Clear Politics


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from RedState


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from RetroVision


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from Reuters


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from Riel World View (Dan Riehl)


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from The Right Scoop


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from Right Wing News


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from RT (Russia Today)


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from ScienceDaily


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from Scientific American

A Virtual Universe
Scientists at MIT have traced 13 billion years of galaxy evolution, from shortly after the Big Bang to the present day. Their simulation, named Illustris, captures both the massive scale of the Universe and the intriguing variety of galaxies -- something previous modelers have struggled to do.

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from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer


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from Skeptoid Podcast


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from Slate


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from Slate's The Vault Blog


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from Smithsonian Magazine


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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Clean Up Space Junk or Risk Real-Life 'Gravity' Disaster, Lawmakers Say


Latest Moon Photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter


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from SPIEGEL International (Der Spiegel)


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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)


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from The Star (Grand Coulee, WA)


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from Sunny Skyz


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from The Telegraph (UK)


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from ThatsNonsense.com


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from Think Progress


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from Time


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from The Times of India


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from Townhall.com


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from USA Today


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from U.S. News and World Report


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from Viral Nova


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from The Voice of the Martyrs


Christians "Engaged in Hostile Acts Against the DPRK"

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from The Wall Street Journal
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from The Washington Examiner (DC)


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from The Washington Post (DC)


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from The Washington Times (DC)


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from The Week


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from The Weekly Standard


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from The Wenatchee World (WA)


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from The Western Center for Journalism
(Western Journalism)


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from WIRED


This Breakthrough Book About Water Safety Can Filter 4 Years’ Worth of Clean Water


from WND (World Net Daily)


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from Yahoo News


Treasury says debt payments could be prioritized in default scenario
The Treasury Department has admitted for the first time that the government is technically capable of prioritizing payments if Congress triggers a default crisis by failing to raise the country's borrowing authority.


Wow! NASA Spacecraft Sees Earthrise from the Moon


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from Yakima Herald-Republic

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from YouTube


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from Zero Hedge


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from 12Tribe Films Foundation


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from 100 Percent FED Up

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