Saturday, August 16, 2014

In the news, Saturday, July 26, 2014


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from ABC News (& affiliates)

New Death Shows Ebola Can Spread by Air Travel
Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola on Saturday after a man sick with one of the world's deadliest diseases brought it by plane to Lagos, Africa's largest city with 21 million people. The fact that the traveler from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to weak inspection of passengers and the fact Ebola's symptoms are similar to other diseases.

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from The Blaze
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from The Daily Caller

Congressman: ‘Genocide’ Against Christians Going On In Iraq And White House Saying Nothing
Virginia Republican Rep. Frank Wolf says there is a genocide being perpetrated against the Christians of Iraq and the White House hasn’t said a word about it, much less acted to stop it.

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from Examiner.com
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from Facecrooks (& Bitdefender)

from The Heritage Foundation
from The Independent (UK)
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from Independent Journal Review

NASA Says We Barely Avoided a Disaster That Would Have Knocked Us Into the 18th Century, And It Might Still Happen

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from Kim Komando

Guess which browser has the most security flaws
The latest version of Internet Explorer is still the number one target for hackers, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Bromium. For the first half of 2014, the report found that Google Chrome has actually had no publicly known security flaws, making it safe from malware attacks.

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from New York Times

The Typical Household, Now Worth a Third Less
The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36 percent decline, according to a study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. Those are the figures for a household at the median point in the wealth distribution — the level at which there are an equal number of households whose worth is higher and lower.

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from NPR (& affiliates)

from RetroVision (news.kjosy.com)

Mick Jagger is 71 years old today.

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from Space.com (& CollectSpace)

Summer Skywatching: See the Clouds of the Milky Way

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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)

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from The Weekly Standard

IT Trade Association Questions Whether Lerner's Emails Were Destroyed

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