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Missouri Legislature Passes Three-Day Abortion Waiting Period
Missouri is set to join Utah and South Dakota and require that women wait at least 72 hours before getting an abortion, the longest waiting period in this country.
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Wildfires Plus High Winds Equals Fire Tornadoes
The wildfires in California's San Diego county are scary enough -- "walls of flames," thousands of homes evacuated, new fires breaking out by the minute -- but now residents have a terrifying new threat: tornadoes of fire.
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Arkansas Judge Closes the Loophole that Temporarily Halted Same-Sex Marriages in the State
On Thursday, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza expanded his ruling against Arkansas's same-sex marriage ban to effectively strike down all the laws in the state barring the issuing of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Pay Gap Dispute Cited in Jill Abramson's Split from The New York Times
On Wednesday afternoon the media world was shocked to learn that The New York Times had abruptly fired Executive Editor Jill Abramson and replaced her with Managing Editor Dean Baquet.
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The 'Harry Potter' Spinoff Is Coming in 2016
Picture this: it's November 18, 2016. You're riding around in your hovercar, global warming has consumed all of Florida, and Hillary Clinton was just elected the first female president of the United States. Best of all: a new J.K. Rowling movie just hit theaters (assuming we still have movie theaters)!
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Say Good-Bye To Idaho's Gay Marriage Ban
Idaho's gay marriage ban, like same-sex marriage bans in several other states, has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.
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Over 200 Killed in Turkish Mine Explosion
Over 200 people were killed today after an explosion in a coal mine in Soma, Turkey. Rescue efforts are still underway, but this could be Turkey's worst mining accident ever.
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Donald Sterling Prayed For Magic Johnson's AIDS (Which He Doesn't Even Have)
Donald Sterling broke his silence for a second time tonight. He probably shouldn't have.
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A Brief History of People Who Claimed To Know the Zodiac Killer's Identity
News broke today via New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer that we're about to get a new Zodiac Killer suspect to add to an ever-growing list. About 1,200 people have claimed to know who the Zodiac Killer is. Here are a few of them.
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Bundy Supporters Drove ATVs Through Native American Ruins
If there's one thing that will get your point across and persuade the general public to support your cause, it's driving a bunch of ATVs through Native American ruins and burials.
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Texas Cop Who Killed Two People in Two Years Has Actually Been Fired
It took the death of a 28-year-old man and a 93-year-old woman to do it, but a police officer faced some sort of consequences for his actions: he was fired.
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'Parks and Recreation' and 'Parenthood' Are Ending Next Season
NBC's two shows that begin with the letters P-A-R are both going to end next season, according to the channel's release about next season's schedule.
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Office of the Director of National Intelligence Now Requires Employees To Pretend Leaks Never Happened
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has an interesting new policy regarding all that leaked information that's been going around lately: pretend it doesn't exist.
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Eight Percent of Syria's Chemical Weapons Are 'Inaccessible'
Syria has until June 30 to get rid of its stockpile of chemical weapons. The good news is, 92 percent of that job is done. The bad news is the remaining 8 percent is located in an area controlled by insurgents and thus inaccessible.
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Police Officer Who Killed 93-Year-Old Woman Has Killed Before
The death of 93-year-old Pearlie "Miss Sully" Golden came at the hands of a police officer who'd been on the job for less than two years -- but managed to kill two people in the line of duty.
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Paypal President Responds To Former Employee's Angry, Strange Tweets
The saga of Rakesh Agrawal, Paypal's former director of strategy, just got juicier. Paypal president David Marcus has responded to Agrawal's tweets on the site in a message entitled "Moving On." It's not very friendly.
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Indianapolis' New Memorial for Homicide Victims Will Be Built Out of the Guns That Killed Them
An Indianapolis firefighter is trying to turn weapons into art as a memorial for homicide victims -- of which, sadly, the city has plenty.
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Last Occupy Wall Street Trial Ends in Conviction
One of the few trials of Occupy Wall Street protestors concluded today with the conviction of Cecily McMillan, accused of assaulting a police officer she says grabbed her breast first.
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Here's a New Species of Spider That Loves To Somersault
Look away, arachnophobes. Scientists discover an average of 15,000 species every year. Here's one of them: the Cebrennus rechenbergi, a spider that moves via back handsprings, or "flic-flac" jumps.
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Nigeria's President Admits He Has No Idea Where the Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are
It took three weeks, but Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan has finally spoken out about the abducted schoolgirls.
