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2012 Solar Eclipse Creates Ring Of Fire [Photos + Video]

Sky-watchers got a rare and spectacular treat last night as an annular eclipse created a ring of fire in the sky. The event, which could be seen from Japan to Texas, dazzled millions of onlookers...

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AMC Theaters Purchased By Chinese Conglomerate

U.S. owned AMC Theaters is being sold to Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group Co. for $2.6 billion, marking the largest China takeover of an American company to date. According to the Dalian Wanda...

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Gold Prices Plummet As Investors Liquidate Commodity, Looks Elsewhere For...

The Commodities market hasn’t been very nice to investors in the last several months and that feeling has been realized the most in the Gold sector where futures have caused gold to tumble by...

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4 Tons Of Marijuana Pulled From Ocean In California

Harbor Patrol agents in California on Sunday afternoon had their work cut out for themselves after they began receiving calls from concerned boater who noticed large bales of marijuana floating off the...

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Ryanair Predicts Declining Earnings In 2012

Ryanair Holdings Plc is predicting that 2012 earnings will be no the decline as the European economy continues to slow and increasing fares fail to make up for the ever increasing cost of jet-fuel. Net...

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Files For Bankruptcy, Claims $3 Billion...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing has published some of the most famous works in modern history from Mark Twain to J.R.R. Tolkien and now the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in order to...

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Mt. Everest Deaths: Four Climbers Die On Mount Everest, One Still Missing

Authorities in Nepal have confirmed that four climbers from Germany, South Korea, China and Canada have died and a fifth remains missing after their group hit bad weather while descending from the peak...

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Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail

Rutgers student Dharun Ravi was sentenced to 30 days in jail today for his involvement in the death of Tyler Clementi.  The Associated Press reports that Ravi will begin his sentence at Middlesex...

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SpaceX Set For Launch Tuesday Morning

SpaceX was planning on launching the first commercial flight to the International Space Station last weekend but an engine problem forced the company to abort the mission. Engineers have fixed the...

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Cornel West Says Obama Only Concerned With His Legacy

Princeton Professor Cornel West had some harsh words for President Obama in an interview with the Financial Times. West told the Times that, “[Barack Obama] is obsessed with being on Mount Rushmore. I...

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Congress Officially Dumber, Study Finds, Republicans in Particular Showing...

If you feel that Congress has gotten dumber in recent memory, you might be inclined to think it’s just present dissatisfaction at the direction of the country, blatant obstructionism, or failure of our...

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Lindsey Graham: Jeb Bush Best Pick For Romney’s Running Mate

Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, believes that Jeb Bush would be the best GOP VP candidate, and would most likely put Mitt Romney in the winning spot in the November...

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Man Survives Niagara Falls Jump, Authorities Believe Intentional

A man has survived the 180 foot drop over Niagara Falls on Monday in what authorities believe may have been a suicide attempt. CBS News reports that the man, believed to be in his 40s, climbed over a...

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North Carolina Pastor Calls For Extermination of ‘Queers & Homosexuals’ (VIDEO)

A North Carolina pastor outlined a disturbingly specific plan to rid the world of “queers and homosexuals” in a sermon earlier this month, the video of which  has been making rounds in the blogosphere...

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Obama Goes On Offensive About Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

President Obama, speaking at the NATO Summit in Chicago on Monday, doubled down on his recent criticism of Mitt Romney and his time as CEO of Bain Capital.  Obama had to say something after Newark, New...

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Jessica Barba Bullying Project: Long Island Teen Suspended For YouTube Video

Jessica Barba’s bullying project garnered a lot of attention from YouTube viewers and Facebook users, which ultimately led to the teen’s suspension from school under threats of further suspension and...

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Seagate Gaining Control Of LaCei SA For $186 Million

Seagate Technology is attempting to take control of LaCie SA for €146 million ($186 million) in cash. The move would allow the hard drive maker to gain better access to channels in Europe and Japan...

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Death To Internet! Then To America! As Al Qaeda Calls For ‘Electronic Jihad’

Al Qaeda is turning its attention partially away from bombings and other forms of killing to focus on what one al Qaeda oeprate calls an “electronic jihad” against the United States. The operative...

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Investors Sue Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and Banks Over IPO

Facebook does not seem so invincible at the moment.  Shareholders in the Social Networking giant announced they are filing a lawsuit against the company, majority shareholder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Attempting To Defund Planned Parenthood

If Pennsylvania State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) has his way Planned Parenthood will lose state funding in the near future. Metcalfe will introduce the Whole Woman’s Health Funding Priority Act on...

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