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    King: I’ll ‘Take Cyanide’ if Cruz Wins

    King: I’ll ‘Take Cyanide’ if Cruz Wins

    Speaking to Morning Joe on the morning of New York’s primary, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) once again made it clear that he is no fan of Ted Cruz. And this time he took it to deadly extremes.“First of all, in case anybody is confused, I am not endorsing...

    New York's loudest congressman threatens suicide if Cruz wins at the RNC.

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    China Endorses Trump

    China Endorses Trump

    China Endorses Trump

    If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, his victory will be celebrated not only in Mar-a-Lago, but also in Beijing.The Chinese Communist Party’s media conduits are swooning over the vulgar, politically-incorrect frontrunner, telegraphing t...

    Chinese state-media publications are among Trump’s most dedicated—and unlikely—supporters.

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     President Dilma Rousseff receives U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the opening of the 1st High-Level Conference about the Alliance for Open Government in the Ulysses Guimarães Convention Center on April 17, 2012 Brasilia, Brazil.

    Hillary Praised ‘Corrupt’ Brazil Prez

    Hillary Praised ‘Corrupt’ Brazil Prez

    On Sunday, Brazilian lawmakers voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff over alleged corruption. And that could make life a little uncomfortable for Hillary Clinton, who said just four years ago that Rousseff herself set “a global standard” for t...

    In 2012, Clinton said soon-to-be-impeached Dilma Rousseff was the ‘global standard’ for transparency.

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    King: I’ll ‘Take Cyanide’ if Cruz Wins

    King: I’ll ‘Take Cyanide’ if Cruz Wins

    Speaking to Morning Joe on the morning of New York’s primary, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) once again made it clear that he is no fan of Ted Cruz. And this time he took it to deadly extremes.“First of all, in case anybody is confused, I am not endorsing...

    New York's loudest congressman threatens suicide if Cruz wins at the RNC.

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    Media: Bernie Bros Label Hillary ‘Whore’

    Media: Bernie Bros Label Hillary ‘Whore’

    Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders supporters staked out Hillary Clinton’s George Clooney-hosted fundraiser in San Francisco and threw actual dollar bills at her motorcade as she drove by. They did so to decry the corrupting force of money in politi...

    Hosts from CNN and MSNBC float the theory that Bernie supporters throwing dollar bills at Clinton tried to portray her as a sex worker.

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    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 13:  Rev. Al Sharpton looks on as democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the National Action Network's 25th Anniversary Convention on April 13, 2016 in New York City. Hillary Clinton spoke during the National Action Network's 25th Anniversary Convention as she campaigns in New York ahead of the New York primary on Tuesday April 19.

    Trump and Sharpton’s Shady Secret Friend

    Trump and Sharpton’s Shady Secret Friend

    A funny thing about the Nixon-tattooed showy master of the shadowy arts who’s helped make Donald J. Trump the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination: He worked out his playbook for using a larger-than-life New Yorker to blow up a p...

    Advise a larger-than-life New Yorker? Check. Disrupt the party establishment? Check. Hijack the primary debates? Check.

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    Watch Cruz Beckham’s New Demo Tape

    Watch Cruz Beckham’s New Demo Tape

    Cruz Beckham, third child of David and Victoria Beckham, continued his stealth assault on the music industry Tuesday with a new video filmed by his dad David showing off his further singing—and percussion—skills on Instagram.The lad is clearly pit...

    Speculation mounts that he’s being lined up for a starring role as a preteen heartthrob singer after his dad posted a second video of him singing online.

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    Crazy Ex-Girlfriend -- "Paula Needs to Get Over Josh!" -- Image Number: CEG118a_0407.jpg -- Pictured: Donna Lynne Champlin as Paula -- Photo: Scott Everett White/The CW -- © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

    The Truth About TV’s Best Love Story

    The Truth About TV’s Best Love Story

    There’s a moment in the season finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that perfectly captures what it’s like for a woman to make up with her best friend.After quietly feuding for most of the episode, lovesick lawyer Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) and her older co-...

    Yes, the CW comedy musical is about a girl chasing a boy—but its real love story is a friendship. Co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna on the real-life inspirations behind Paul and Rebecca.

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    Taxes at Coachella

    Coachella’s Hot New Act: Filing Taxes

    Coachella’s Hot New Act: Filing Taxes

    The Coachella music festival’s makeshift post office saw unexpected traffic this weekend, as festival-goers scrambled to file their tax returns last minute from the campground.Coachella, which kicked off on Friday, brings nearly 200,000 attendees ...

    Almost a dozen concertgoers rushed to Indio, California’s post office to snail-mail returns to the IRS between dropping acid and listening to Guns N’ Roses, apparently.

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    Record producer Calvin Harris  performs onstage during day 3 of the 2016 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival Weekend 1 at the Empire Polo Club on April 17, 2016 in Indio, California.

    Taylor Swift’s Beau Closes Out Coachella

    Taylor Swift’s Beau Closes Out Coachella

    The first weekend of Coachella came to a close Sunday night with what appeared to be a live rendition of the latest volume of Now That’s What I Call Music! With Calvin Harris as the closing-night headliner, the festival has proudly made the full c...

    The Scottish ‘DJ’ Calvin Harris ended the three-day festival by pressing play on some pretty choice tunes by other, more worthy closing-night headliners.

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    Crazy Ex-Girlfriend -- "Paula Needs to Get Over Josh!" -- Image Number: CEG118a_0407.jpg -- Pictured: Donna Lynne Champlin as Paula -- Photo: Scott Everett White/The CW -- © 2016 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

    The Truth About TV’s Best Love Story

    The Truth About TV’s Best Love Story

    There’s a moment in the season finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that perfectly captures what it’s like for a woman to make up with her best friend.After quietly feuding for most of the episode, lovesick lawyer Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) and her older co-...

    Yes, the CW comedy musical is about a girl chasing a boy—but its real love story is a friendship. Co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna on the real-life inspirations behind Paul and Rebecca.

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    Actor Johnny Depp and wife Amber Heard arrive at the Southport Magistrates Court on Australia's Gold Coast, April 18, 2016.

    Depp’s Ironic Dog Apology Fools Aussies

    Depp’s Ironic Dog Apology Fools Aussies

    The old charge that Australians don’t get irony looks set to be revived today, after Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard released a sarcastic video apologizing for bringing their pet dogs illegally into Australia, which the former Minister For Ag...

    Johnny Depp has made a masterful, deeply sarcastic apology for smuggling his pet dogs into Australia. The authorities have lapped it up. Don’t they ‘do’ irony?

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    NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 14:  Christopher Jordan Wallace attends the "Kicks" premiere during the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival at SVA Theatre on April 14, 2016 in New York City.  (Photo by Mike Pont/WireImage)

    Biggie’s Son Is Ready for His Close-Up

    Biggie’s Son Is Ready for His Close-Up

    Kim Hardin had seen hundreds of kids. As days turned into months, the veteran casting director, whose impressive résumé includes Friday, Hustle & Flow, and Think Like a Man, was losing patience. Hardin’s specialty, as it were, was placing musi...

    The only son of iconic MC Biggie Smalls is a scene-stealer in the film ‘Kicks,’ which premiered at Tribeca. He opens up about his famous Big Poppa, acting, and upcoming rap album.

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    Andy Miller, Mathew Priest and Nigel Clark of Dodgy, posed on board Radio Caroline pirate radio ship, United Kingdom, 1995. (Photo by Martyn Goodacre/Getty Images)

    When Music Pirates Used Pirate Ships

    When Music Pirates Used Pirate Ships

    Music pirates are boring nowadays. The pirate’s den is a bedroom in mom’s flat. Or maybe that’s a pirate using the free wi-fi at Dunkin Donuts.That wasn’t always the case. Music pirates once had their own ships, just like their skull-and-crossbone...

    Renegade radio stations in the ’60s challenged government control of the airwaves from international waters and helped launch the rock revolution.

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    Actor Johnny Depp and wife Amber Heard arrive at the Southport Magistrates Court on Australia's Gold Coast, April 18, 2016.

    Depp’s Ironic Dog Apology Fools Aussies

    Depp’s Ironic Dog Apology Fools Aussies

    The old charge that Australians don’t get irony looks set to be revived today, after Johnny Depp and his wife Amber Heard released a sarcastic video apologizing for bringing their pet dogs illegally into Australia, which the former Minister For Ag...

    Johnny Depp has made a masterful, deeply sarcastic apology for smuggling his pet dogs into Australia. The authorities have lapped it up. Don’t they ‘do’ irony?

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    Iraqi Turkmen forces patrol a checkpoint in the northern town of Taza Khormato, 20 kms south of Kirkuk, on June 21, 2014, close to locations of jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. Sunni militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took control of an Iraq-Syria border crossing after Syrian rebels withdrew overnight, security officers and witnesses said. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB        (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)

    We’ll Never Defeat ISIS Like This

    We’ll Never Defeat ISIS Like This

    KUDILAH, Iraq — It is April, and fighting is stalled, with part of the Iraqi army forces camped at the village of Kudilah and unable to advance because of fierce resistance and counterattacks by the so-called Islamic State. The research team that ...

    An in-depth report on the inconclusive battle to take one small village exposes the weakness of the strategy to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city.

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    U.S. Ratchets Up Cyber War on ISIS

    U.S. Ratchets Up Cyber War on ISIS

    U.S. Ratchets Up Cyber War on ISIS

    President Obama confirmed for the first time last week that the U.S. is conducting “cyber operations” against ISIS, in order to disrupt the group’s “command-and-control and communications.”But the American military’s campaign of cyber attacks agai...

    Military hackers are disrupting ISIS’s encrypted chats, implanting viruses in terrorists’ computers, and mining the machines to launch real-world strikes.

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    Revellers sleep on a bench after the second running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 8, 2012. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN - Tags: SOCIETY TRAVEL) - RTR34QH6

    History’s Hottest Debate: How to Nap

    History’s Hottest Debate: How to Nap

    In the past two weeks the Spanish government has announced that it is considering eliminating the siesta from the national schedule. The siesta—known as the afternoon nap to the rest of us—is a cultural staple in Spain. The move is encountering re...

    Spain is debating whether to do away with the siesta. As the debate rages over the national tradition, it’s worth a look at how much human sleep varies.

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    Pope Francis welcomes a group of Syrian refugees after landing at Ciampino airport in Rome following a visit at the Moria refugee camp in the Greek island of Lesbos, April 16, 2016. REUTERS/ Filippo Monteforte/Pool - RTX2A8KJ

    Pope Francis Just Shamed Europe

    Pope Francis Just Shamed Europe

    LESBOS, Greece—If he could have, Pope Francis would have surely packed all 4,000 or so refugees of various nationalities stuck on the Greek island of Lesbos into the back of the papal plane when he flew home to Rome on Saturday. As it happened, he...

    The pope took back 12 Syrian refugees, including 6 children when he left Lesbos. Will he set an example?

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    U.S. Ratchets Up Cyber War on ISIS

    U.S. Ratchets Up Cyber War on ISIS

    U.S. Ratchets Up Cyber War on ISIS

    President Obama confirmed for the first time last week that the U.S. is conducting “cyber operations” against ISIS, in order to disrupt the group’s “command-and-control and communications.”But the American military’s campaign of cyber attacks agai...

    Military hackers are disrupting ISIS’s encrypted chats, implanting viruses in terrorists’ computers, and mining the machines to launch real-world strikes.

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    The Pope Meets Bernie Sanders

    The Pope Meets Bernie Sanders

    LESBOS, Greece — Bernie Sanders can officially thumb his nose at all the naysayers who criticized the political wisdom of a Democratic presidential candidate taking 36 hours off the campaign trail to travel to Rome just days before a major primary...

    The encounter was short on substance, short on time, but high on symbolism. Just how much do the pontiff and the candidate have in common?

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    **  FILE  **  Accused drug lord Hector El Guero Palma is seen in this June 1995  file photo holding an assault rifle when he was presented to reporters following his June 25, 1997 arrest in the city of Guadalajara, state of Jalisco, Mexico. The U.S. praised Mexico for extraditing an "unprecedented" group of alleged drug lords to the U.S.  to face justice, with Palma among them, on Friday Jan. 19, 2007, a move that could up the ante in Mexico's drug war and prevent traffickers from running cartels from prisons. . (AP Photo/Jorge Zamora/Siglo 21, file)

    U.S. Lets Drug Kingpins Walk Free

    U.S. Lets Drug Kingpins Walk Free

    Héctor Luis “El Güero” Palma is scheduled for release from federal prison in Atwater, California, on June 11. Palma was the business partner of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán in the early 1990s during the grisly war for succession in the Pacific Cartel...

    El Güero Palma was El Chapo’s partner in a gruesome drug war and relentless vendetta. It’s not over, and when he’s freed, he could be a dead man walking.

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    Defense Satellite Communication System satellites (like the one pictured) provide critical communication links used by the Department of Defense members and U.S. allies. Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron intentionally spun a DSCS test satellite off its operational axis, then initiated a new procedure for correcting the spacecraft's attitude. (U.S. Air Force illustration)

    Space War Game Wasted U.S. Satellites

    Space War Game Wasted U.S. Satellites

    Every spring, the top people in America’s space industry—scientists, researchers, military officers and executives—gather for a four-day conference at the century-old Broodmoor Hotel nestled at the base of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.The...

    The American military depends on satellites to direct its soldiers, bombs, and drones. But an eye-opening exercise showed that those spacecraft are frighteningly suceptible to attack.

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    The Pope Meets Bernie Sanders

    The Pope Meets Bernie Sanders

    LESBOS, Greece — Bernie Sanders can officially thumb his nose at all the naysayers who criticized the political wisdom of a Democratic presidential candidate taking 36 hours off the campaign trail to travel to Rome just days before a major primary...

    The encounter was short on substance, short on time, but high on symbolism. Just how much do the pontiff and the candidate have in common?

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    U.S. News

    Taxes at Coachella

    Coachella’s Hot New Act: Filing Taxes

    Coachella’s Hot New Act: Filing Taxes

    The Coachella music festival’s makeshift post office saw unexpected traffic this weekend, as festival-goers scrambled to file their tax returns last minute from the campground.Coachella, which kicked off on Friday, brings nearly 200,000 attendees ...

    Almost a dozen concertgoers rushed to Indio, California’s post office to snail-mail returns to the IRS between dropping acid and listening to Guns N’ Roses, apparently.

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    Cadet Hijab Citadel

    Will the Citadel Allow Hijabs on Campus?

    Will the Citadel Allow Hijabs on Campus?

    A young woman’s request to be allowed to wear the hijab as a cadet at The Citadel military academy has sparked debate at the strait-laced school and outrage on social media.The incoming cadet, who has not been named, asked that she be allowed to w...

    An incoming cadet has asked permission to wear the headscarf at the conservative military academy, which has yet to rule on her request.

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    WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11:  Rosario Reyes (L), 36, and her son Victor Reyes, 7, chant 'Si se puede!' during a prayer for justice vigil and rally in front of the Supreme Court December 11, 2015 in Washington, DC. Organized by The Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) and CASA, about 40 people gathered to pray for the Supreme Court justices after they agreed to hear a case regarding President Barack Obama's executive order to expand Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and implement Deferred Action for Parental Accountability.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    Will SCOTUS Toss Anti-Immigrant Case?

    Will SCOTUS Toss Anti-Immigrant Case?

    The great immigration showdown is finally here. Today, the Supreme Court hears ninety minutes’ worth of oral arguments in United States v. Texas, conservatives’ challenge to President Obama’s executive orders on immigration policy.The court may de...

    The justices will decide if the president’s deferred action on deportation is an abuse of executive authority or whether Texas’s lawsuit is an abuse of the legal process.

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    Taxes at Coachella

    Coachella’s Hot New Act: Filing Taxes

    Coachella’s Hot New Act: Filing Taxes

    The Coachella music festival’s makeshift post office saw unexpected traffic this weekend, as festival-goers scrambled to file their tax returns last minute from the campground.Coachella, which kicked off on Friday, brings nearly 200,000 attendees ...

    Almost a dozen concertgoers rushed to Indio, California’s post office to snail-mail returns to the IRS between dropping acid and listening to Guns N’ Roses, apparently.

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    Anti-Muslim Gun Nut Freaks Out Police

    Anti-Muslim Gun Nut Freaks Out Police

    On Monday, far-right activist Jim Stachowiak plans to grab his rifle and lead an armed rally outside the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta to unite likeminded citizens “against Islam and Islamic immigration.” The gun-toting activist wishes to “raise publ...

    Get ready for a gun-toting protest with shredded images of the Prophet Muhammad, Hillary Clinton, and President Obama.

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    Abused? You Can’t Work at These Churches

    Abused? You Can’t Work at These Churches

    If you want to work for the Twin Cities Bible Church, you will have to disclose whether you were raped as a child.“Have you ever been physically or sexually abused as a child?” is one of the questions on the Urbana, Illinois, church’s job applicat...

    Church job seekers are being asked if they were sexually abused as children based on the false belief that victims will become abusers. The worst part—this discrimination is legal.

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    Tech + Health

    A gender-neutral bathroom is seen at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California September 30, 2014. The University of California will designate gender-neutral restrooms at its 10 campuses to accommodate transgender students, in a move that may be the first of its kind for a system of colleges in the United States.  REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY POLITICS) - RTR48EXM

    All Bathrooms Should Be Gender Neutral

    All Bathrooms Should Be Gender Neutral

    When you’re gender nonconforming, it’s hard to know where you belong, especially when you’re using the bathroom.Alok Vaid-Menon, who works for the Audre Lorde Project and uses gender-neutral pronouns, explained that deciding whether to use the men...

    It’s time for lawmakers and business owners to realize that gendered restrooms just don’t work.

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    Defense Satellite Communication System satellites (like the one pictured) provide critical communication links used by the Department of Defense members and U.S. allies. Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron intentionally spun a DSCS test satellite off its operational axis, then initiated a new procedure for correcting the spacecraft's attitude. (U.S. Air Force illustration)

    Space War Game Wasted U.S. Satellites

    Space War Game Wasted U.S. Satellites

    Every spring, the top people in America’s space industry—scientists, researchers, military officers and executives—gather for a four-day conference at the century-old Broodmoor Hotel nestled at the base of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.The...

    The American military depends on satellites to direct its soldiers, bombs, and drones. But an eye-opening exercise showed that those spacecraft are frighteningly suceptible to attack.

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    FHP4GH JOEL KINNAMAN ROBOCOP (2014)

    Cyborgs Aren’t Just For Sci-Fi Anymore

    Cyborgs Aren’t Just For Sci-Fi Anymore

    From The Six Million Dollar Man to Inspector Gadget to Robocop, humans with bionic body parts have become commonplace in fiction. In the real world, we use technology to restore functionality to missing or defective body parts; in science fiction,...

    We’re moving beyond just prosthetics and wearable tech. Soon, we’ll all by cyborgs in one way or another.

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    Aerial view of coral formations at Hardys Reef. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia

    To Save the Great Barrier Reef, Move It

    To Save the Great Barrier Reef, Move It

    New research shows that some areas of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the largest collection of coral in the world, are doing better than others. If the reef is to be protected and preserved, they might take a lesson from Dubai, and consider movin...

    Dubai successfully transplanted a reef eight years ago, in the name of profit. Australia could too.

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    Defense Satellite Communication System satellites (like the one pictured) provide critical communication links used by the Department of Defense members and U.S. allies. Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron intentionally spun a DSCS test satellite off its operational axis, then initiated a new procedure for correcting the spacecraft's attitude. (U.S. Air Force illustration)

    Space War Game Wasted U.S. Satellites

    Space War Game Wasted U.S. Satellites

    Every spring, the top people in America’s space industry—scientists, researchers, military officers and executives—gather for a four-day conference at the century-old Broodmoor Hotel nestled at the base of Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.The...

    The American military depends on satellites to direct its soldiers, bombs, and drones. But an eye-opening exercise showed that those spacecraft are frighteningly suceptible to attack.

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    Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, attends a panel discussion during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York, September 29, 2015.  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid  - RTS2BYB

    Will Walgreens Dump Theranos?

    Will Walgreens Dump Theranos?

    The rise and fall of blood-testing start-up Theranos can be tracked on the Walgreens website.Theranos, founded by charismatic tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, skyrocketed to a $9 billion valuation with promises of accurate finger-prick blood te...

    As the blood-testing start-up struggles with questions about the reliability of its finger-prick tests, Walgreens has quietly stopped promoting Theranos on its website.

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    Who Will Protect Us From Space Pirates?

    Who Will Protect Us From Space Pirates?

    With trillions of dollars worth of minerals lying just under the moon’s surface or spinning around the solar system inside asteroids, space mining is big business.Well, big potential business. No one has dug nickel out of an asteroid or scooped an...

    It may sound like sci-fi, but millions and millions of dollars are pouring in to mine asteroids and the moon. And with a space gold rush comes space pirates.

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    Pill Crackdown Drives Patients to Heroin

    Pill Crackdown Drives Patients to Heroin

    It would be an exaggeration to say the government drove Christopher Baltz to break the law, but it definitely built the highway that took him there.On April 9, 2014, Baltz was arrested in a sting operation in the Dania Beach area of Fort Lauderdal...

    The war on prescription-drug abuse has created ‘opioid refugees’ who can’t get prescriptions for legal painkillers filled and turn to illegal ones instead.

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    Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, attends a panel discussion during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York, September 29, 2015.  REUTERS/Brendan McDermid  - RTS2BYB

    Will Walgreens Dump Theranos?

    Will Walgreens Dump Theranos?

    The rise and fall of blood-testing start-up Theranos can be tracked on the Walgreens website.Theranos, founded by charismatic tech entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, skyrocketed to a $9 billion valuation with promises of accurate finger-prick blood te...

    As the blood-testing start-up struggles with questions about the reliability of its finger-prick tests, Walgreens has quietly stopped promoting Theranos on its website.

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    The Dirty History of Underwear

    The Dirty History of Underwear

    LONDON — When is underwear sexist and when is it simply sexy? This question comes to mind viewing the men’s and women’s styles of Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the largest-ever museum exhibi...

    The largest-ever museum exhibition of underwear shows how and why we dress our nether regions to express ourselves, and impress and seduce others.

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    CFMHAX USA, Florida, Miami skyline at dusk. Image shot 2011. Exact date unknown.

    Was Miami Made Just for Crime Novels?

    Was Miami Made Just for Crime Novels?

    You feel a slight sheen of sweat on your brow. You take a long pull from your Cuba Libre as you lean back in your chair, your feet sliding over the warm sand. You can still taste the heavy bistec empanizado lunch you downed an hour before, capped ...

    The most iconic mysteries and detective novels are anchored firmly by their sense of place, and no place is more hospitable to crime and violence than Miami.

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    D4THNF An undated computer graphic of France?s largest mosque 5o be built in Marseille. The construction of France?s largest mosque, with room for some 7,000 visitors, was officially launched Friday when Marseille Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin handed over the construction permit. The mosque will cost 22 million euros (32.6 million dollars) to build and is to comprise a prayer hall measuring 2,

    Muslim Infighting Stopped Grand Mosque

    Muslim Infighting Stopped Grand Mosque

    Marseille, that great and ancient Mediterranean port of France, is ringed by mountains, and for generations the high ground to the east has been claimed by the Catholic basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde.There, since 1864, a gilded Madonna has sho...

    15 years ago the French city of Marseille approved a giant mosque on one of the western hilltops as a symbol of approbation and integration. It remains unbuilt.

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Richard Rodgers Theatre

    Witch Hunt Against ‘Racist’ ‘Hamilton’

    Witch Hunt Against ‘Racist’ ‘Hamilton’

    It’s been a shoe that had yet to drop.The praise for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical phenomenon has been resoundingly unanimous. There are already plans for a touring production, one in London plus a sit-down production in San Francisco. Miranda has ...

    The year of universal praise for the play “Hamilton” was not meant to last, as those who make a career of finding racial flaws were biding their time.

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    CFMHAX USA, Florida, Miami skyline at dusk. Image shot 2011. Exact date unknown.

    Was Miami Made Just for Crime Novels?

    Was Miami Made Just for Crime Novels?

    You feel a slight sheen of sweat on your brow. You take a long pull from your Cuba Libre as you lean back in your chair, your feet sliding over the warm sand. You can still taste the heavy bistec empanizado lunch you downed an hour before, capped ...

    The most iconic mysteries and detective novels are anchored firmly by their sense of place, and no place is more hospitable to crime and violence than Miami.

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    Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, pose at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, April 16, 2016.  REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RTX2A7DW

    Why Will & Kate Really Went To India

    Why Will & Kate Really Went To India

    On Friday, William and Kate were pictured looking young and attractive, and (unusually for public images) very in love, going for a mountain trek in casual clothes in Bhutan. Kate also wore a stunning red poppy-design dress for an official functio...

    In India and Bhutan William and Kate have hiked, partied, and vitsted under-privileged children. The trip also had a barely-hidden political purpose.

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    The Vienna Cameo
Greek (Ptolemaic), Early Hellenistic period, 278-270/69 B.C. Ten–layered onyx (Indian sardonyx)
H. 41/2 in. (11.5 cm), W. 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Antikensammlung, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

    How Greek Art Conquered the World

    How Greek Art Conquered the World

    The Hellenistic period inspired awe in works both big and small.That feeling of constant wonder can be found at a massive new exhibition five years in the making at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancien...

    A major new Met exhibit shows the breadth and richness of Hellenistic art. Prepare for gold-plated head-dresses, and two meter-tall vases.

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    Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, or "Joe the Plumber," the Ohio man who shot to fame last year after he challenged then presidential candidate Barack Obama over his tax proposals, stands near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip as smoke from Israeli artillery shells covers the Hamas run territory on January 11, 2009. “Joe the Plumber”, is morphing into "Joe the War Correspondent". He traveled to Israel to report for US conservative website pjtv.com, giving the perspective of ordinary Israelis on the conflict in Gaza. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ (Photo credit should read PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)

    The Death of Pajamas Television

    The Death of Pajamas Television

    PJTV.com—the right-wing online television outlet named for bedtime clothing and funded by a reclusive Los Angeles tech billionaire—is shutting down after nearly eight rocky years, unable to figure out how to monetize ideological video on the Web.T...

    After nearly eight years, Aubrey Chernick’s PJTV has died, unable to figure out how to monetize ideological video on the Web.

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    Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, pose at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, April 16, 2016.  REUTERS/Adnan Abidi - RTX2A7DW

    Why Will & Kate Really Went To India

    Why Will & Kate Really Went To India

    On Friday, William and Kate were pictured looking young and attractive, and (unusually for public images) very in love, going for a mountain trek in casual clothes in Bhutan. Kate also wore a stunning red poppy-design dress for an official functio...

    In India and Bhutan William and Kate have hiked, partied, and vitsted under-privileged children. The trip also had a barely-hidden political purpose.

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    A bugler plays taps during funeral services for US Army Major General Harold Greene at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on August 14, 2014. Major General Greene was shot dead on August 5, 2014 at a training center in Kabul in an attack that left more than a dozen others wounded, including a senior German officer. He was the highest ranking US Army officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB        (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

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    A Korean War veteran, homeless and with no family, was given a hero’s memorial service.

    A dog named Loco wears a "Hillary" sign outside a "Women for Hillary" rally for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire September 5, 2015.   REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RTX1R9MX

    Dogs Vote in the NY Dem Primary

    Dogs Vote in the NY Dem Primary

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    When horrifying meets fascinating.

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    Watch a Big Snake Vomit Up a Big Snake

    When horrifying meets fascinating.

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    Real Fighter Jet Vid Better Than a Movie

    “Permission to buzz the tower?”

    • When horrifying meets fascinating.

      Watch a Big Snake Vomit Up a Big Snake

      When horrifying meets fascinating.

    • “Permission to buzz the tower?”

      Real Fighter Jet Vid Better Than a Movie

      “Permission to buzz the tower?”

    A dog named Loco wears a "Hillary" sign outside a "Women for Hillary" rally for U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire September 5, 2015.   REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RTX1R9MX

    Dogs Vote in the NY Dem Primary

    Dogs Vote in the NY Dem Primary

    Hillary Clinton is expected to win New York’s Democratic primary tomorrow, but who will win the dog vote? We went to the city’s dog parks to find out.

    An elderly Chinese couple chat while sitting on exercise machines at a park in Shanghai on October 24, 2008.  Nearly half of all elderly people in China's cities live alone and have inadequate healthcare. An estimated 49.7 percent of city dwellers aged 60 or older lived in "empty nests," according to a survey by the government-run China Elderly Work Committee Office. In the past, care for the elderly was considered a key virtue but greater individualism in recent decades has led to the corrosion of traditional values.           AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

    Chinese Law: Visit Parents or Get Sued

    Chinese Law: Visit Parents or Get Sued

    A new Shanghai law enables parents to sue their kids if they don’t visit enough.

    Close view of the packaging of the console game Grand Theft Auto 5 at the midnight opening of the HMV music store in central London on September 17, 2013.  One enthusiastic fan camped outside the store for three days.  AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL        (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)

    Are Video Games Making You Sexist?

    Are Video Games Making You Sexist?

    Researchers have found a link between sexism in video games and actual sexism.

    US President Barack Obama laughs as he listens performer Joel McHale telling jokes during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on May 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad        (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

    Obama Sees ‘Game of Thrones’ Before You

    Obama Sees ‘Game of Thrones’ Before You

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    • Close view of the packaging of the console game Grand Theft Auto 5 at the midnight opening of the HMV music store in central London on September 17, 2013.  One enthusiastic fan camped outside the store for three days.  AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL        (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)

      Are Video Games Making You Sexist?

      Researchers have found a link between sexism in video games and actual sexism.

    • US President Barack Obama laughs as he listens performer Joel McHale telling jokes during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on May 3, 2014 in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad        (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

      Obama Sees ‘Game of Thrones’ Before You

      President Obama has early access to the show’s sixth season.

    An elderly Chinese couple chat while sitting on exercise machines at a park in Shanghai on October 24, 2008.  Nearly half of all elderly people in China's cities live alone and have inadequate healthcare. An estimated 49.7 percent of city dwellers aged 60 or older lived in "empty nests," according to a survey by the government-run China Elderly Work Committee Office. In the past, care for the elderly was considered a key virtue but greater individualism in recent decades has led to the corrosion of traditional values.           AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

    Chinese Law: Visit Parents or Get Sued

    Chinese Law: Visit Parents or Get Sued

    A new Shanghai law enables parents to sue their kids if they don’t visit enough.