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Comcast: We won’t sell browser history, and you can opt out of targeted ads

Comcast today said it has "no plans" to sell its customers' individual Web browsing histories, but Comcast can still deliver person...

Pruitt chooses not to ban pesticide after scientists find neurotoxicity

Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced late Wednesday that a widely used pesticide will remain available to fa...

New bill would let companies force workers to get genetic tests, share results

It’s hard to imagine a more sensitive type of personal information than your own genetic blueprints. With varying degrees of accuracy, the four-...

The CIA uses board games to train officers—and I got to play them

Alarms and flashing lights have begun blaring in a hotel meeting room, much to the chagrin of CIA Senior Collection Analyst David Clopper. T...

New EPA chief denies CO2 is major factor in climate change

The Environmental Protection Agency is charged with enforcing two of the major pieces of US environmental legislation: the Clean Air and Clean Water A...

Kaléo’s opioid overdose drug went from $690 to $4,500—and senators want answers

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and thirty of his colleagues sent a letter to Kaléo Pharmaceuticals Wednesday to question the company&#...

Elon Musk joins Donald Trump’s advisory council despite criticising President-elect

Elon Musk has joined Donald Trump’s advisory council despite having dismissed Mr Trump as “not the right man for the job” ...

So Trump Is President. What Now?

In the apparent wake of the 2016 elections, many have come out almost in a shared disbelief over what has happened. I, of course, am talking about the...

What is The Real Face of America?

To put into essence.  These two candidates are nowhere near what we were hoping for time come when Obama checks out.  You had both democrats...

Agents of influence: How reporters have been “weaponized” by leaks

Since June, some entity has been releasing e-mails and electronic documents obtained via network intrusions and credential thefts of politicians and p...

To win the presidency - one must have 270 electoral votes. Its not even close.

In the wake of the 2016 presidential race, republicans are gung-ho about getting the word out about Trump.  Stomping out 3rd party sympathisers a...

War-weary Libyans miss life under Kadhafi

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FBI Docs: Hillary Was So Unpleasant Security Agents Didn’t Want To Protect Her

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Cincinnati Zoo deletes Twitter account after one Harambe reply too many

The Cincinnati Zoo called it quits on Twitter late Monday after Harambe sympathizers refused a trolling cease-fire. The zoo offered no explanation ...

Vet Raises Money To Help Donald Trump Earn His Own Purple Heart

Donald Trump was thrilled last week when a veteran at a Virginia rally gave him his Purple Heart. “I’ve always wanted to get a Purple...

The federal government just approved first private mission to the Moon

The Outer Space Treaty requires countries to “authorize and continuously supervise" the activities of space missions under their ...

Poll: Libertarian Gary Johnson beating Trump, Clinton among active troops

Military troops favor Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson for president over Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, according to a ...

Bernie Sanders has finally shown his true colors.

The Sanders political revolution has come to the point I suspected that it would; endorsing Hilary Clinton for political power. Despite all of his ...

72 House Democrats ask Obama to take in 100,000 Syrian refugees

We have seen the biggest refugee migration since world war II in our lifetime.  This is a big big ordeal.  Millions of Syrians have fleed th...

The Sharia States of Ameristan

Here's the scenario:   The Iranian weapons program yields a weapon of absolutely unrealistic power. Unrealistic as in "fictional&q...

Fact Check: An AR-15 Wasn’t Used In Orlando, And It Wouldn’t Have Mattered Anyway

The Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida is the deadliest Islamic terror attack in the United States since the terror attacks of 9/11. 49 p...

Catholic archdiocese defends nuns accused of defacing Sex party poster

The Catholic archdiocese of Melbourne has defended the Missionaries of Charity after a photograph emerged purporting to show two nuns from t...

Sanders jabs at Clinton's foreign policy credentials following speech

Bernie Sanders took a swipe at Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy credentials on Thursday in the wake of the Democratic presidential fro...

Bosnia police arrest five, seize arms intended for Islamists in Sweden

Police in Bosnia have arrested five people suspected of trafficking arms to Islamists in Sweden and seized large amounts of weapons and military equip...

Clinton attacks Trump's foreign policy as a threat to U.S. safety

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump's foreign policy platform as "dangerously incoherent" in a...

Hillary Clinton Posted Names of Hidden Intelligence Officials On Her Email

Federal records reveal that Clinton swapped these highly classified names on an email account that was vulnerable to attack and was breached...

U.N. adds Saudi coalition to blacklist for killing children in Yemen

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen for killing and maiming children by adding it to...

Judge orders Obama administration to release new Clinton emails

A federal judge has ordered the Obama administration to release new emails connected to Hillary Clinton before Democratic National Conventio...

North Korea: Kim Jong-un's aunt 'lives American Dream'

An aunt of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been running a dry-cleaning business in the US after defecting with her family in 1998, the Washing...

Paul Ryan says he will vote for Donald Trump

The speaker of the House of Representatives says he will vote for Donald Trump. Rep. Paul Ryan made that statement in a column submitted ...

Clinton IT aide to plead Fifth in email case

The man believed to have set up and maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server will assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-i...

Lavrov: World War II put an end to Kuril Islands transfer story

According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, World War II put an end to the story of the Kuril Islands’ transfer from one state to ...

Attempted North Korea missile launch fails: South Korea

North Korea attempted to fire a missile from its east coast on Tuesday but the launch appears to have failed, South Korean officials said, in what wou...

In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific paper

In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-acc...

Dalai Lama says 'too many' refugees in Europe

The Dalai Lama said in an interview published Thursday that Europe has accepted “too many” refugees, and that they should eventually retur...

State Dept. watchdog: Clinton violated email rules

A State Department watchdog concluded that Hillary Clinton failed to comply with the agency’s policies on records while using a person...

Fewer than 500 of 163,000 asylum seekers found jobs

Using figures from Sweden's employment agency Arbetsförmedlingen and migration authorities Migrationsverket, SVT reported on Tuesda...

Argentina's last military dictator jailed for role in international death squad

Argentina’s last military dictator, 88-year-old former general Reynaldo Bignone, was today sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in Opera...

As many as 240,000 women have tried DIY abortions because of strict Texas laws

Between 100,000 and 240,000 women of reproductive age in Texas have attempted self-induced abortions as access to abortion clinics throughout the stat...

U.S. election: Manufacturing the masks

There's no masking the facts. One Chinese factory is expecting Donald Trump to beat his likely U.S. presidential rival Hilary Clinton in the popul...

Wealthy sex assault survivor pledges to defeat GOP lawmaker who won’t let victims sue their abuser

ealthy New York businessman has made it his personal mission to defeat state lawmakers who won’t pass a bill to allow child sex abuse survivors ...

China says Nanjing more worthy of remembrance than Hiroshima

China said on Friday (May 27) that Japan's World War II violence is more worthy of remembrance than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, ahead of a hi...

Alabama Chief Justice Suspended Over Gay Marriage Stance

Roy Moore, chief justice of the Alabama state Supreme Court, was suspended for his efforts to block same-sex marriage, counter to a U.S. Supreme Court...

Senator calls for investigation of Purdue Pharma following Times story on OxyContin

.S. senator on Friday called for federal investigations of OxyContin’s manufacturer in response to a Los Angeles Times report that found the bes...

U.S. plans new wave of immigrant deportation raids

U.S. immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found...

State Department email audit faults Hillary Clinton

 Hillary Clinton and her team ignored clear guidance from the State Department that her email setup broke federal standards and could leave sensi...

Bernie Sanders Blasts Hillary Clinton's Refusal to Debate as 'Insulting' to Voters

Bernie Sanders blasted Hillary Clinton for her refusal to debate him two weeks before the California Democratic primary. "...

Trump the Magnificent

On the morning of May 19th, American news watchers were greeted with an early morning report of a missing plane. Specifically, flight EgyptAir MS804 d...

Donald Trump is trying out a new moniker for Hillary Clinton

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump appears to be test-driving a new moniker for Hillary Clinton, his Democratic counterpart.  ...

The Inevitability Trap

e Sunday before Election Day, Hillary Clinton addressed a crowd of voters at an afternoon rally in Nashua, New Hampshire. The state has long served as...

Gov. McCrory Stands Behind Parts of North Carolina's 'Bathroom Law

Heated debate, protests and boycotts over North Carolina's controversial law, which some consider discriminatory towards members of the LGBT commu...