Politics
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1.1KU.S. to Test Expendable Aerial Drones Launched from Airborne ‘Aircraft Carriers’
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is two years away from demonstrating the feasibility of having swarms of recoverable aerial...
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829U.S. Senate Passes Tax Bill Repudiated by Most Americans as Giveaway to the Rich
The Republican Party-dominated Senate on Dec. 20 voted along party lines to approve the contentious Tax Cuts and Jobs Act rejected by...
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974U.S. to Punish North Korea for ‘WannaCry” Ransomware Attack
The United States plans to take unilateral action to punish North Korea for developing and unleashing the infamous "WannaCry" ransomware attack last...
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845Americans are Dying Younger as U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Again
For the first time in 50 years, the life expectancy at birth for Americans has fallen for two straight years, even as...
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874Facebook Admits it Makes Users Feel Worse about Themselves if …
Facebook, the company, has admitted that using Facebook, the social media website, makes its users feel bad – but only if they...
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854Secret Pentagon Unit Finds UFOs do Indeed Exist
The Pentagon has finally confirmed the existence of a hitherto hush-hush unit that secretly investigated "anomalous aerospace threats" (Pentagon speak for Unidentified...
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820Trump No Longer Allow CDC To Use These Words: ‘Science-based,’ ‘Evidence-based,’ ‘Transgender,’ Among Others
The new directive has ordered that the phrase "science-based" be replaced with "CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community...
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902Prepare for Higher Fees, Slower Speeds with GOP Repeal of Net Neutrality
The decision by the three Republican Party-appointed commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to abolish "net neutrality" will lead to households...
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833Merry Christmas to the Rich, Anguish for Everyone Else; Trump to Sign GOP Tax Bill earlier than Christmas
The rich will be all smiles while the rest of Americans will be wallowing in despair when Donald Trump signs the hugely...
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899Disney, 21st Century Fox $52.four Billion Merger Imperilled by U.S. Justice Department
The Walt Disney Company, the second largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the U.S. after Comcast, acquired key assets of 20th Century...