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It has been one of the elusive goals of seafaring nations almost since the beginnings of waterborne trade, but for nearly 500 years the idea has been dismissed as an impossible dream. Now, as a result of global warming, the dream is about to come...
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President Barack Obama is accepting the world’s best-known peace award as a wartime president, an incongruity that he will directly speak to when he receives the...
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A recent pay increase for Afghan troops and police appears to have resulted in a surge of applicants, said the top U.S. military official for Afghan security...
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State officials issued a warning today about a scam targeting unemployment benefits deposited onto debit cards.
Laid off workers are getting text messages on their...
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Australian Amateur Boxing League’s National Titles. Father Dave claim’s that he has 100% success rate with the young thugs and misfits that they manage to...
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Schoolteacher Shana Richey misses the playroom she decorated with Glamour Girl decals for her daughters. Fireman Jay Fernandez misses the custom putting green he...
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Decades ago, a pioneering individual posited that adolescent students claiming to be bisexual, gay, or identifying as transexual should not meet with ridicule or...
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Congressman Brian Baird (D-Washington) has announced his retirement after six terms - 12 years - in the House of Representatives. He will sorely be missed by me and all...
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Few people in American life behave with arrogance toward the rule of law as American cops. Do not misunderstand me: Most police officers are decent people. But a few...
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For all of the U.S. establishment’s self-righteous and arrogant lecturing to Muslims about how backwards Muslim society is, these people are the elite in one of...
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No matter how you slice it, even Dora the Explorer and her team know that, “there is an animal in trouble, somewhere.”
That Tiger is in trouble is the greatest...
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A pornography actress was today the tenth woman to be linked to scandal-hit golfer Tiger Woods.
Joslyn James, who has starred in a number of extremely explicit adult...
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Wednesday’s edition of the Washington Post features an op-ed by Sarah Palin, who reprises her call — first made in a Facebook post last week — for...
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The relatively quiet campaign to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat was matched by equally light turnout Tuesday as voters picked two state politicians...
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The Church of Uganda is dismayed with reports of the election of Reverand Mary Glasspool, a gay person, to the status of Bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles in the...
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The U.S. establishment is starting to move away from Israel after years of a honeymoon with Zionism. The U.S. establishment does not necessarily mean the U.S. public,...
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The Episcopal Church in the US has elected its first openly lesbian woman to serve as a bishop in the diocese of Los Angeles, instantly sparking fresh tumult in the...
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US President Barack Obama may be well-intentioned but he’s still stuck in the past when it comes to supporting Honduras’ recent, post-coup election,...
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Something stinks at M. Slavin & Sons fish market, and it’s not just the fish.
According to a complaint filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...
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The Obama administration is turning up the pressure on Pakistan to fight the Taliban inside its borders, warning that if it does not act more aggressively the United...
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U.S. prosecutors have alleged new acts of terrorism against two Pakistan-born Westerners, who now stand accused of playing a role in the Mumbai massacre.
David...
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Russia raised the prospect of war in the Arctic yesterday as nations struggle for control of the world’s dwindling energy reserves.
The country’s new national...
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Hot, angry winds are blowing over the Arctic. Well, the winds relate to the geopolitical atmosphere of the energy rich northern-most continent rather than the climatic...
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Arctic Ocean sea ice has melted to the second lowest minimum since satellite observations began, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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Companies seeking oil in the Arctic will need better technology to clean up spills onto ice and could new face hazards such as rougher seas caused by climate change,...
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An army of trees is invading the Arctic. It might sound like a Monty Python skit, complete with John Cleese and bizarre animations, but it\’s real and...
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The melting ice cap could open the North Pole region to easy navigation for five months a year, according to the latest Arctic Climate Impact Assessment,...
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A team of researchers say that in spite of all the media attention given to the Arctic region and polar bears, species living in the tropics may face an even greater...
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Arctic sea ice is melting “significantly faster” than predicted and is approaching a point of no return, conservation group the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)...
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A few warm, springlike days might sound appealing if you live in the frigid Arctic Circle.
But a rise in temperature can spell doom for native peoples and the caribou,...
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Pursuit of power is obvious between the two most powerful nations of the world - US and Russia. The former is toiling and manipulating hard to protect its hegemony and...
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