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Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day

A Central California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her company issued iPhone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a...

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Wal-Mart Bottled Water Comes From Sacramento Municipal Supply

Wal-Mart is facing questions tonight after CBS13 learns the company draws its bottled water from a Sacramento water district during California’s drought.According to the label, the water comes from the...

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Picasso sets $179 million auction record in New York

A Picasso masterpiece and a Giacometti statue smashed world records Monday for the most expensive art sold at auction, fetching more than $179 million and $141 million respectively in New York.Pablo...

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Poll shows those in US drifting away from religion

The share of US residents who identify as Christian has shrunk over the past seven years while adults unaffiliated with organized religion now represent a larger portion of the public, a poll released...

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Cops Decide Heroin Addicts Will Be Helped With Rehab, Not Arrested -...

People who turn in their drugs to the Gloucester Police Department and ask for help won’t be arrested, they’ll be rehabilitated.Additionally, the department will start using money seized from drug...

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Call him a ‘socialist,’ but many Americans agree with Bernie Sanders: "'[60%]...

Is America ready for the “S” word?Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats in Congress, is the only candidate so far to challenge Hillary Clinton for the 2016...

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State Attorney clears officer in shooting of unarmed 17 year old with Down's...

The State Attorney's Office is the legal arm that determines if an officer who shoots should face criminal charges.We found cases in Palm Beach County that appear to show the State Attorney’s Office...

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The emerging populist agenda "All agree that our extreme inequality is not...

The most surprising development in our political debate isn’t the gaggle of Republican presidential contenders or the ceaseless attacks on Hillary Clinton. What is stunning is the emergence of a...

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A Navy nurse who refused to force feed prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S....

A Navy nurse who refused to force feed prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is no longer facing an administrative discharge over his protest, his lawyer said...

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Nestle CEO Tim Brown on whether he'd consider stopping bottling water in...

“Absolutely not. In fact, if I could increase it, I would.”This was the answer Nestlé Waters North America CEO Tim Brown gave when Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, asked him...

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The Truth About Vaccines

Dr. Nina L. Shapiro is the director of pediatric otolaryngology and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Cornell University, Shapiro has...

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Asian and European countries dominate education in science/math. US is ranked...

A new survey of high-school students around the world shows educational outcomes in the Balkans and former Soviet Union generally lagging behind their peers in Asia and much of Europe.The report, by...

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An army veteran with cancer called 911 because he was hungry and couldn't...

An 81-year-old North Carolina Army veteran touched an emergency operator earlier this week when he dialed 911 — not because he was hurt, but because he was hungry.Clarence Blackmon had just returned to...

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Clinton has vowed to protect Obama’s actions on climate... But Sanders has...

The Twitters bring word that former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley is likely to announce on May 30th that he’s entering the Democratic presidential primary. As John Wagner puts it, all signs are...

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New analysis finds that if the world built nuclear power at a similar rate to...

Fossil fuel electricity could be replaced with nuclear power in just 25 years, cutting worldwide human carbon emissions by half, a new analysis published to PLoS ONE finds.Climate change is widely...

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'This is a matter of public safety': California Senate approves controversial...

 State senators passed a bill Thursday aimed at increasing California’s school immunization rates after a measles outbreak at Disneyland last year.The bill was approved on a 25-10 vote after a series...

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US Companies Are Throwing a Fit Because They're Losing Control Over the Internet

Control over the internet is slipping away from the US government and American corporations in favour of a more global approach, and the corporations don’t like how they’re being treated so far.In a US...

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Former Judge: "Don't be fooled by the USA Freedom Act. It won't stop...

A decision last week about NSA spying by a panel of judges on the United States Court of Appeals in New York City sent shock waves through the government. The court ruled that a section of the Patriot...

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NSA chief: I didn’t lie to Congress about spying on millions of Americans—I...

In March of 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went to Congress and had this conversation:Sen. Ron Wyden: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of...

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Son of judge could escape jail time after being caught with 10,000 child...

A former teacher from one of Australia's most distinguished families of judges is likely to avoid jail, despite being convicted of possessing child abuse material.Robert Emmett, son of NSW Court of...

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