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5 Reasons to Stay Away from Sugar

It gives you a rush, messes with your mind, and always leaves you wanting more - and researchers are calling for the government to regulate the sweet stuff like a drug.  1. STRESS EATING For a...

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Seven Bedtime Habits That Are Ruining Your Sleep

Going from Night Owl to Early Bird Who says bedtime is just for kids? Take extra care to maintain your sleep schedule, especially on the weekends. The body responds to routine. If your bedtime is...

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Toyota donates engineers to food bank instead of money. Reduces wait times...

The Food Bank for New York City is the country’s largest anti-hunger charity, feeding about 1.5 million people every year. It leans heavily, as other charities do, on the generosity of businesses,...

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121% of the gains in real income during Obama's recovery have gone to the top...

The president has been decrying the growing gap between rich and poor in the U.S. to help sell his retread tax-and-spend proposals. But those policies have already produced record levels of income...

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California prison offering inmates $150 nightly 'Pay to Stay' rates

Some prisoner’s in Northern California are upgrading to better living spaces – but only if they’ve got the cash to pay.That’s because a jail in Fremont is offering prisoners the chance to...

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Man repays insurance money with 4 tons of coins

 An Illinois businessman outraged by a court order that he return more than $500,000 in insurance money related to a 2001 wreck that killed his teenage son wanted to pay the money back in pennies in...

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Barack Obama nominates woman to lead Air Force

US President Barack Obama has nominated Deborah Lee James, a defence industry executive and former assistant secretary of defence, to head the Air Force replacing Michael Donley, who stepped down in...

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Yes, the feds are tracking your car

One morning last week, 38-year-old software developer Phil Mocek was walking to work in Seattle when he paused to photograph what appeared to be civilian vehicles parked in a restricted area near a...

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Living in America will drive you insane — literally

In “The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” (New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric...

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Texas' Prison System is running out of the drug they use to execute inmates

The nation's most active death penalty state is running out of its execution drug.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Thursday that its remaining supply of pentobarbital expires in September...

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Florida Judge Rejects "Stand Your Ground" Defense; Abused Wife Is Given 20...

A Florida woman who fired warning shots against her allegedly abusive husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.Marissa Alexander of Jacksonville had said the state's "Stand Your Ground" law...

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The FBI can remotely activate the microphones for phones running Google's...

Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal wiretap into the cyber age.Federal...

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Germany Ends Cold War Spying Pact With US, Britain

Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries'...

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How the chemicals in your blood can betray your wealth

Doctors may soon be able to tell how wealthy their patients are purely by looking at the chemicals in their blood.Chemicals found in sunscreen were found to be more prevelant in richer peopleA new...

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“Senator Obama warned about Patriot Act abuses. President Obama proved him...

In 2005, Congress debated whether or not to re-authorize the Patriot Act – the dreadful, post-9/11 piece of legislation the NSA and FBI now use as legal justification for its mass surveillance of...

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Facebook Is Riddled With Click Farms Where Workers Sit In Dingy Rooms in...

How much do you like courgettes, the green vegetable Americans call zucchini? According to one Facebook page devoted to them, hundreds of people find them delightful enough to click the "like" button –...

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Cop secretly pepper-sprays teen's pizza, making the teen and his friends...

An Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy is facing jail time after being accused of pepper spraying a teen's pizza without his knowledge during a traffic stop last year, the OC District Attorney’s Office...

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Formerly Homeless Man Invents Portable Shelters to Help Others

A formerly homeless Utah man has used his insight to create and build “survival pods,” or mini-shelters, to be doled out to people who currently have nowhere to live. “I believe a person needs the...

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White House Closes Inquiry Into Afghan Massacre and Will Release No Details...

Soon after taking office, President Obama pledged to open a new inquiry into the deaths of perhaps thousands of Taliban prisoners of war at the hands of U.S.-allied Afghan fighters in late 2001.Last...

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Farmington man faces charge after walking around downtown with toy gun tucked...

A man who walked around the downtown with a toy gun that appeared real was charged with terrorizing Thursday night.John Cushman, 20, "made lots of people nervous" when he strolled through town with a...

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