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Fracking Destroys the Environment and Poisons the Air We Breathe

Fracking Destroys the Environment and Poisons the Air We Breathe

by Dylan Murphy and Jo Murphy

”Shortly after operations began, we started to experience extreme headaches, runny noses, sore/scratchy throats, muscle aches and a constant feeling of fatigue. Both of our children are experiencing nose bleeds and I’ve had dizziness, vomiting and vertigo to the point that I couldn’t stand and was taken to an emergency room. Our daughter has commented that she feels…

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The U.S. Puts 'Moderate' Restrictions on Religious Freedom

A new Pew study reveals complex questions about First Amendment rights.

“Congress shall make no law…

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Will Amanda Knox Be Sent Back to Italy?

How the former exchange student could still wriggle out of her 28-year Italian jail sentence

It’s…

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The Specter of Mass Killings in Burma

Religious intolerance is threatening the country’s tenuous transition to democracy.

With all the…

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The Wanted Man Behind Ukraine's Protests-on-Wheels

Dmytro Bulatov vanished at the height of the Euromaidan uprising. He’s now resurfaced—bruised,…

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Fastest Growing Jobs That Robots will Steal.

The Fastest-Growing Jobs of This Decade (and the Robots That Will Steal Them)</h2

Hospital rooms,…

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Execution of Herbert L. Smulls

Missouri Executed This Man While His Appeal Was Pending in Court

Herbert Smulls was pronounced dead…

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Over 100 bodies recovered from three mass graves in Balochistan province of Pakistan

The UN and international human rights organisations must send fact finding missions to probe the…

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Cops: Mall gunman expressed 'general unhappiness' in journal

(CNN) — Police say the man arrived at a busy mall in Columbia, Maryland, in a cab, about an hour before he walked into a small shop and fired a shotgun at least half a dozen times, killing two people who worked there.

Why Darion Marcus Aguilar shot two…

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Syria talks bring offer of exit from siege of Homs

GENEVA (Reuters) – The Syrian government said women and children could leave the besieged rebel…

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Snowden says 'significant threats' to his life

BERLIN (Reuters) – Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden told German TV on…

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8-year-old boy saves 6 in blaz

8-year-old boy saves 6 in blaze before dying while trying to save another

A fourth-grade boy died…

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BlackBerry CEO Fuels Rally by Focusing Again on Businesses

BlackBerry Ltd. (BB)’s new chief executive officer is starting to win over Wall Street skeptics

Bet…

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Corporate Shills Take Aim at Workers Fighting for a Living Wage

The above image was part of a full-page ad produced by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI)

that…

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CES 2014: Could 3D printing change the world?

Items are printed with a 3D printer at the Robo3D company stand at the 2014 Consumer Electronics…

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Ex-McDonald's CEO: Raising The Minimum Wage To $15 Would 'Absolutely' Kill Jobs

If lawmakers were to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour

, it would “absolutely” kill jobs, former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi told Fox News host Neil Cavuto Tuesday.

Rensi, who was head of McDonald’s in the mid-1990s and now runs a burger chain of his…

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Poverty vs. Democracy

Poverty vs. Democracy in America 50 years after Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty, tens of…

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