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Article asks:"Why are so many US government documents classified?" Short answer: ██. Long answer: █████████████████████████████ Senators Mark Udall and Ron Wyden are upset about something, they just can't say what. In a letter sent to the National Security Agency this week about a fact sheet...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has thrown out lower court rulings that blocked a Texas voter identification law and the state's political redistricting plans as discriminatory. The court's action Thursday was a predictable result of its major ruling two days earlier that effectively ended...

Hiroshima: 67 Years Later -- Economy In Crisis

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Protestors in South Africa, thought to be affiliated with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, dumped raw sewage at the Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday. President Barack Obama is due to arrive in South Africa on Friday and will speak in Cape Town on Sunday. The...

Meet Neil, better known as Slurpy, the Rob Ford lookalike at centre of scrapped plot to film fake crack video In a small community north of Toronto, inside a modest white house surrounded by lush farmland, lives a 48-year-old man unintentionally caught up in the crack-video allegations...

Personal Grooming Products May Be Harming Great Lakes Marine Life Could removing dead skin cells from your face each night mean doom for perch and other Great Lakes species? Three of the five Great Lakes—Huron, Superior and Erie—are awash in plastic. But it's not the work of a...

Thanks, guys. Thanks a LOT h/t Fark EXCLUSIVE: New book reveals how KGB operation seeded Muslim countries with anti-American, anti-Jewish propaganda during the 1970s, laying the groundwork for Islamist terrorism against U.S. and Israel The highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence...

Knife-wielding assailants killed nine policemen and 17 civilians in a bloody attack that only ended after 10 attackers were shot dead in western China early Wednesday. At least three people were also injured during the early morning assault on the Lukqun Township in Xinjiang province...

As I write this I am still only being updated by text message on the proceedings in the Senate chamber but I am told Bill C-304 has passed third reading and will receive Royal Assent tonight making it law. What does this bill do? There are a number of amendments to the act that help limit...

is apparently a thing in American high schools now In the last year, there have been more than a dozen hazing incidents around the country involving high school boys who have sodomized other boys with foreign objects, reports Bloomberg. Over 40 boys have been reported victims. Most have...

A 14-year-old Texas teen, Miguel Martinez, is dead after impaling himself on the horns of a bull statue on the Texas Tech University campus. According to police, Martinez was running on the National Ranching Heritage Museum on the Texas Tech campus around 3am playing hide-and-seek when the...

7 MPs want voters who challeged them in court to pay their bills Seven Conservative MPs have submitted a combined bill of $355,907 for costs they want paid by a handful of voters who received misleading robocalls during the last general election, and had challenged them in court. The...

Bono, the lead singer for legendary rock band U2 and co-founder of the ONE Campaign, shares his insight as a husband of 30 years and a father of four children, and how his faith in Jesus Christ motivates him to use his celebrity status to fight for social justice around the world. “I believe...

More signs that Britain has lost it man. Oldfield loses right to stay in UK Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield has been refused leave to remain in the UK after the Home Office decided his presence was not "conducive to the public good". The Australian, who disrupted last year's...

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is a federal agency which, in the words of its mission statement is "dedicated to the protection of Canada's national security interests and the safety of Canadians." Like any other branch of government, it's not perfect, but their goal is to serve...

Hat tippage to Fark DES MOINES — During four years as the only Midwestern state to offer same-sex marriage, Iowa has seen thousands of couples travel to the Hawkeye State for wedding celebrations that have pumped millions of dollars into the state economy. But Iowa will get some...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican-dominated Texas Legislature pushed Monday to enact wide-ranging restrictions that would effectively shut down abortion clinics across the nation's second most-populous state, and Democrats planned an old-fashioned marathon filibuster to stop the final...

That's “arrest, fines and imprisonment”for you! Willful bastard. via sda: Bureaucracy run amok. Sigh. This episode reminds me of the union at Prince Albert Park (I think it was) where the union filled complaints against the seniors that...

This is satire. Although the news is real, very little actual reporting was done for this story and the quotes are imagined. It is the first installment of an ongoing series that examines the language journalists use to cover foreign countries. What if we wrote that way about the United...